11/3/2025 Monday
Reformed vs. Baptist on Cultural Mandate is an interesting one:
The Baptist's take is generally shallow. Some of them would distinguish Gospel mandate and cultural mandate as Gospel proclamation and Gospel demonstration. Reformed Cultural Mandate focuses on God's original design for human in both pre & post lapsarian. Thus, the Reformed can rightly work with non-Christians while the Baptist cannot as the Baptist must only work with Christian (people of the Gospel) context to non-Christians, falling into Gospel pragmatism rather than God's principle from the beginning of creation when dealing with culture. It's not a big difference, but a foundational one:
First time hearing 1980s being considered the era of the Satanic panic:
Also love one of these pastors calling the Prayer of Jabez (I think he's not referring to the Bible, but the popular book by Bruce Wilkinson, Growing Kids God's Way (also, according to AI, I think he's referring to the parenting program, created by Gary and Anne Marie Ezzo), as demonic, as if coming as angel of light. Another saying that movies that has neither good or evil, no moral value, are worse than Harry Potter, LOTR, etc.