CatechumenPatrick
Puritan Board Freshman
I am not sure if this thread is in the correct place, but I figured it concerns itself primarily with being a witness to other Christians who hold heretical views.
In a week I will be returning to school to finish my third and last year as an undergraduate (after which, I hope and pray, I will be attending WTS PA for my masters). I had to spend two years in the dorms at my very secular and university (after only two and a half years as a Christian), in a town that has no Reformed churches. My goals for this last year are simple and high: to be a consistent witness and light to the world around me, and grow both in my knowledge of the Lord and His Word and especially in my Godliness and obedience. In my evaluation, I was a horrible witness during my first two years, and I want to improve on this immensely.
I will not be in the dorms, however: I will be living in the "guy's house" of the Christian fellowship I have been involved with for the past two years (His House Christian Fellowship). I have heard almost every cliché attack on the Reformed faith in the fellowship throughout the past two years and a plethora of heretical doctrines touted around unquestionably. I am so thankful for the place the Lord has put me, and I want to be a light not only on campus, but in the fellowship--a fellowship that treats Christianity as purely an experience and is very doctrinally ignorant, often tolerant of every worldview except that of Calvinism, or "predestrinarianism" as some of them call it. Do any of you have advise on being a witness to other Christians, Christians that are not only heretical and unorthodox in our Reformed eyes, but do not really care about theology, doctrine, or belief, that they assume is incorrect? Any helpful experiences with witnessing to other Christians that you could share? How do you approach, witness, and even live with Christians who are opposed to Reformed Christianity? I appreciate your advice and comments, thank you.
In a week I will be returning to school to finish my third and last year as an undergraduate (after which, I hope and pray, I will be attending WTS PA for my masters). I had to spend two years in the dorms at my very secular and university (after only two and a half years as a Christian), in a town that has no Reformed churches. My goals for this last year are simple and high: to be a consistent witness and light to the world around me, and grow both in my knowledge of the Lord and His Word and especially in my Godliness and obedience. In my evaluation, I was a horrible witness during my first two years, and I want to improve on this immensely.
I will not be in the dorms, however: I will be living in the "guy's house" of the Christian fellowship I have been involved with for the past two years (His House Christian Fellowship). I have heard almost every cliché attack on the Reformed faith in the fellowship throughout the past two years and a plethora of heretical doctrines touted around unquestionably. I am so thankful for the place the Lord has put me, and I want to be a light not only on campus, but in the fellowship--a fellowship that treats Christianity as purely an experience and is very doctrinally ignorant, often tolerant of every worldview except that of Calvinism, or "predestrinarianism" as some of them call it. Do any of you have advise on being a witness to other Christians, Christians that are not only heretical and unorthodox in our Reformed eyes, but do not really care about theology, doctrine, or belief, that they assume is incorrect? Any helpful experiences with witnessing to other Christians that you could share? How do you approach, witness, and even live with Christians who are opposed to Reformed Christianity? I appreciate your advice and comments, thank you.