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[SolaScriptura]

I'll do some looking... but my prayers are with you. Remember: Slow and steady.

 

[SolaScriptura]

I recommend getting Piper's tapes on TULIP... I found them to be quite helpful.

 

[C. Matthew McMahon]

Curtis, Steele and Thomas have a good book on the 5 Points. Also, Edwin Palmer's "Five Points of Calvinism" is also good (though the last chapter is not so good).

Dabney had a book out on the 5 Points as well.

Boettner's "Reformed Doctrine of Presdestination" is laid out very well, and could be distilled down to be edible for them.

However, if you are asking for advice, I'd start with teaching them the Dcotrine of God.

 

[Ravens]

Glad you clarified.

My hillbilly neurons were thinking "Benedict Arnold" as I was reading...

:bigsmile::bigsmile::bigsmile:

Haha. Just jokin' man. I'm trying to have some levity after our choke against Texas last night.

::sigh::

Take care!

 

[R. Scott Clark]

Try Mike Horton's Putting Amazing Back into Grace.

rsc

 

[Bryan]

Or Sproul's "What is Reformed Theology"

Bryan
SDG

 

[Ravens]

Rev. McGrail,

In Mink Shoals. First exit on I-79 North. About 2 - 3 miles outside of 'technical', downtown Charleston... thankfully.

 

[bond-servant]

At my old church, the Pastor did a Christianity 101 series on Sunday nights. It was a 10 week course and he repeated it for a year. Pretty much required every member of the church to go through it. These were also not "highly educated" sheep. I think it worked well. No reason it couldn't also work with one of the Reformed resources/books..?

 

[Puritan Sailor]

Always bring your lesson back to the person and covenantal work of Christ. Put the particular doctrine into the big picture. Always bring it back to the covenant between the Father and Son (and the role of the Spirit). The 5 points are irrefutable if you focus on Christ being sent by the Father as a federal head and mediator for those "the Father gave him." Election, Justification, Sanctification, perserverance, etc. all make much more sense, especially when grounded in the common truths even Arminians take for granted, like the Trinity and substitutionary work of Christ.

 

[BrianBowman]

Originally posted by R. Scott Clark
Try Mike Horton's Putting Amazing Back into Grace.

rsc

This was the first Reformed book I read after 2 years of ordination study for Dispensational Sect Greater Grace World Outreach. Chafer Systematic Theology was required reading for this Ordination process and oddly enough, although Chafer taught the "unlimited atonement", his views on "Sovereign Grace" helped steer me toward the Reformed faith.

Horton's book clarified many things for me and it is written in such a way (given Horton's Dispensational childhood) that can really help folks from Arminian/Dispensational/etc. backrounds see some real Scriptural light.