Comments on: Brandon Milan- I Think My Wife’s A Calvinist

By: Headless Unicorn Guy

Headless Unicorn Guy — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:40:35 +0000

With the success of this song, I suggest you may be called to a career of theological parody songs. Seriously. Osteen. The Ed Young Sex Challenge. Think of the material. — IMonk

Weird Al Yankovic built his career on filks and parody songs.

By: Christopher Lake

Christopher Lake — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:10:00 +0000

Michael,

Of course, gaining knowledge isn’t the same thing as loving people. However, I think that Christians can too easily fall into a false “either/or” dichotomy of thinking that we can *either* gain theological knowledge *or* love people.

As in, “I don’t care about all of that ‘theology business’; I just love people.” Or, “Knowing what God’s word says, or even implies, about (insert subject here) is so important that I have no time for serving in the church or helping lost people.”

Both positions are not only logically false; they are morally wrong. Christians who really want to know the God whom they worship should be growing in both loving *and* learning (to different degrees with different people on the latter, as He gives each of us different capacities).

By: skerrib

skerrib — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:52:38 +0000

Fantastic.

By: Real DeCoy

Real DeCoy — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:44:44 +0000

Pleae write a song about the self-conscious voice you hear when your in a “contemporary” church and you
A. Don’t know if you’re supposed to sing…confide..nt.ly in worship, or
B. Don’t know if your singing if when you’re not sure you’re supposed to be singing, you’re singing? or
C. You don’t know if you’re becoming Buddhist because your ego is in a full sprint to oblivion as you encounter God and a rock band with the biggest, baddest speakers you never even seen at an ozzy osbourne concert in church.

By: iMonk

iMonk — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:15:18 +0000

But gaining knowledge isn’t the same as loving people.

By: Christopher Lake

Christopher Lake — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:24:02 +0000

Gaining theological knowledge is not at odds with loving people. Gaining knowledge, *rather* than serving others and ministering to them, and/or gaining knowledge and using it to think of oneself in a proud, haughty way– these patterns in one’s life are at odds with loving people.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:27:38 +0000

Cindy and Fr. Ernesto,

Agreed. Knowledge puffs up but love builds up.

By: Christopher Lake

Christopher Lake — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:27:09 +0000

Why can’t I meet any women like this? I jest, I jest!

Seriously, I’m as Reformed as they come (well, okay, Reformed Baptist), and I can’t even begin to understand an “ESV-only mentality” or anything close to it. I’m also perplexed by the mindsets of Reformed Christians who put *any* human authors on a pedestal, whether they be Calvin, Edwards, Piper, Sproul, or anyone else. They are simply fallen, fallible, gifted men whom God has used for His glory. When I hear of people lining up at conferences for autographs from Reformed “heavyweights,” I become more than a little nervous…

It’s not ultimately about us– *any* of us, including Piper, Sproul, and so on. It’s about GOD.

By: Fr. Ernesto

Fr. Ernesto — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:33:46 +0000

I laughed very hard, and promptly posted the video to my blog with links to both here and to Brandon’s site.

Bob, I concur with Cindy, Option B. However, in the best of all possible worlds, studying would lead to knowledge, and knowledge (after is it tested by experience) would lead to wisdom. And the truly wise person has learned to grow more and more into the likeness of Christ, thus going from “glory to glory,” from human to more fully human.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:07:09 +0000

Bob: Option B.