Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley answer listener questions to wrap up season 13!
Questions Covered in This Episode:
- How did you start writing for an audience?
- Who is the deep discipleship program built for? Should all leaders and volunteers at a church participate in this program?
- What is the “extra Calvinisticum”?
- Are you a dispensationalist? Why or why not?
- Did God reject his people? (Romans 11)
- How do you respond when people argue that focusing on studying the Bible and theology produces Pharisees?
- My church dissolved its women's ministry in 2020. Do you have any advice on how to start a women's bible study without disrespecting the church's leaders?
- What do you appreciate about each other?
- If not just in memorial, what do the sacraments do?
- What is the role of the warning passages in Hebrews?
- Could you sum up free will from a reformed perspective?
- How have you made the podcast work for so long?
Helpful Definitions:
- Extra Calvinisticum: Teaches that in the Son’s incarnation the divine Logos is fully united to, but never fully contained within, the human nature. (Definition from TGC, Kevin DeYoung)
- Dispensationalism: One way to think through the structure of Scripture has a variety of modes. A history with a theology.
- Covenantal: One way to think through the structure of Scripture. A theology with a history.
- Premillennialism: Belief in some sort of 1,000-year rule and reign and in some way that Christians are taken up into God's presence prior to the millennium.
- Amillennialism: The millennium is figurative, we are currently living in the millennium period.
- Views of the Lord's Supper:
- Transubstantiation (Catholicism): Conversion of elements.
- Consubstantiation (Lutheranism): Divine and human elements coexist.
- Memorial (Anabaptist): Elements are symbolic.
- Spiritual Presence (Reformed): Christ is spiritually present.
- Libertarian Free Will: There is nothing outside of you that will constrain your ability to choose A or B. You are at liberty to do all that you would like to do whenever you’d like to do it.
- Theological Determinism: You and all that you do is going to be determined by God or some gods.
- Theological Compatibilism: You are able to act in accordance with your desires.
Resources Mentioned in this Episode:
- Romans 9-11, Isaiah 40:28-31, Hebrews 6
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