I'll try....

Reconciling God's call to evangelize with the Calivinistic doctrines of total depravity and unconditional election. I'm reading J. I. Packer's Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God and thought it was helping to clarify, but when I read the compare and contrast chart of the two models of Arminianism and Calvinism here, I get confused again.

A discussion led by Michael Horton on besetting sins and eternal salvation in which random pastors were asked about their position on this. What the pastors said seemed scriptural and yet their words were picked apart in order to reveal their "Arminian" positions.

Sometimes, it just seems that the root of what a professing Christian truly believes is not really discovered but rather a person's theology is discounted because of the use of some buzzword that hits a nerve with the reformed "inquisitor" (for lack of a better word). I think I have even read where a person's salvation is brought into question based on the answers given regarding certain doctrinal positions.

Perhaps it's just the number of years I have neglected systematic study of God's Word as well as the many I've spent in a nondenominational evangelical church. Even so, there was a period of time there that the Word was being taught in a consise manner, but it's been some time.... I want to understand and grow in Christ, but I get so confused that sometimes I nearly feel sick.

Sounds a bit drama laden, doesn't it?

M Azingrace

[color:"blue"]...how sweet the sound[/color]