Merry Christmas: A Q&A Story

Episode Summary:

Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley answer listener questions to wrap up season 13!

Questions Covered in This Episode:

  • How did you start writing for an audience?

  • Who is the deep discipleship program built for? Should all leaders and volunteers at a church participate in this program?

  • What is the “extra Calvinisticum”? 

  • Are you a dispensationalist? Why or why not?

  • Did God reject his people? (Romans 11)

  • How do you respond when people argue that focusing on studying the Bible and theology produces Pharisees?

  • My church dissolved its women's ministry in 2020. Do you have any advice on how to start a women's bible study without disrespecting the church's leaders?

  • What do you appreciate about each other?

  • If not just in memorial, what do the sacraments do?

  • What is the role of the warning passages in Hebrews?

  • Could you sum up free will from a reformed perspective?

  • How have you made the podcast work for so long?

Helpful Definitions:

  • Extra Calvinisticum: Teaches that in the Son’s incarnation the divine Logos is fully united to, but never fully contained within, the human nature. (Definition from TGC, Kevin DeYoung)

  • Dispensationalism: One way to think through the structure of Scripture has a variety of modes. A history with a theology. 

  • Covenantal: One way to think through the structure of Scripture. A theology with a history.

  • Premillennialism: Belief in some sort of 1,000-year rule and reign and in some way that Christians are taken up into God's presence prior to the millennium. 

  • Amillennialism: The millennium is figurative, we are currently living in the millennium period.

  • Views of the Lord's Supper:

    • Transubstantiation (Catholicism): Conversion of elements.

    • Consubstantiation (Lutheranism): Divine and human elements coexist.

    • Memorial (Anabaptist): Elements are symbolic.

    • Spiritual Presence (Reformed): Christ is spiritually present.

  • Libertarian Free Will: There is nothing outside of you that will constrain your ability to choose A or B. You are at liberty to do all that you would like to do whenever you’d like to do it.

  • Theological Determinism: You and all that you do is going to be determined by God or some gods.

  • Theological Compatibilism: You are able to act in accordance with your desires.

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

  • Romans 9-11, Isaiah 40:28-31, Hebrews 6

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