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Our
Current Study is a DVD Series titled Amazing Grace
Following is a summary of the series:
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Amazing Grace
Just
what is “Calvinism?” Does this teaching make man a deterministic robot
and God the author of sin? What about free will? If the church accepts
Calvinism, won’t evangelism be stifled, perhaps even extinguished? How
can we balance God’s sovereignty and man’s responsibility? What are the
differences between historic Calvinism and hyper-Calvinism? Why did men
like Augustine, Luther, Calvin, Spurgeon, Whitefield, Edwards and a host
of renowned Protestant evangelists deny the Arminian definition of free
will and label it heresy? Why did the Roman Catholic Church condemn the
Reformed teaching of predestination and election and embrace free will
theology? And why do so many Protestants, perhaps unwittingly, agree
with Rome on this issue?
Amazing Grace — The History and Theology of Calvinism is the first video
documentary that answers these and other related questions. This
fascinating three-part, four-hour presentation is detailed enough so as
to not gloss over the controversy. At the same time, it is broken up
into ten “Sunday-school-sized” sections to make the rich content
manageable and accessible for the average viewer.
Part
One
explores the history of the debate. It begins with the pivotal dispute
between Augustine and Pelagius and continues through the semi-pelagian
controversy; focusing particularly on the debate between Martin Luther
and Desiderius Erasmus. Many viewers will be shocked to discover that
free-will theology was NOT the doctrine of the Reformation but instead
the teaching of an increasingly apostate Roman Catholic Church. The
history section ends with a definitive historical explanation of the
issues that arose during the Calvinist/Arminian controversy. By
examining the five points of Arminianism and the Synod of Dort’s
response, the viewer will clearly see that the Protestant Church
understood how the Gospel would be compromised if Arminianism prevailed.
Part
Two
opens the Word of God, our ultimate authority for life and faith. The
five points of Arminianism are put on trial as what would later come to
be known as the “five points of Calvinism” are clearly and forcefully
presented.
Part
Three
asks and answers the provocative question: If Calvinism is true, if God
is absolutely sovereign; then why should we evangelize? It also explores
the vital issue of how to and to whom the gospel should be presented so
as to be faithful to the great doctrines of God’s sovereignty, man’s
depravity, and the miracle of amazing grace.
Rich in graphics, dramatic vignettes, and biblical analogies, Amazing
Grace — The History and Theology of Calvinism also features many of the
finest reformed thinkers and pastors of our time: Dr. R.C. Sproul, Dr.
D. James Kennedy, Dr. George Grant, Dr. Stephen Mansfield, Dr. Thomas
Ascol, Dr. Thomas Nettles, Dr. Roger Schultz, Pastor Walt Chantry, Dr.
Joe Morecraft, Dr. Ken Talbot, Pastor Walter Bowie and Dr. R.C. Sproul,
Jr..
Come learn what the great Baptist preacher C.H. Spurgeon meant when he
said, “…to deny Calvinism is to deny the gospel of Jesus Christ.”
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