Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear has urged Christians not to “tear apart” their unity over theological disagreements, such as Calvinism.
“It is the Gospel that is the source of our renewal, and it is the Gospel that should be our defining characteristic as a people,” Greear said in his first presidential address at the SBC on Monday in Nashville.
Baptist Press reported that The Summit Church, in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina pastor made a promise to preach the Gospel “above all.”
“Our disagreement on finer points of theology should not tear apart our unity in the Gospel,” Greear said. “Calvinism is never an issue to me…. I can assure you that what is not biblical is sitting around bickering about finer points of theology when people are lost and going to Hell.”
“I agree with (former SBC president) Johnny Hunt. I do not know all there is to know about the particulars of Calvinism,” he added, “but what I do know is that the more I go and share Christ, the more people seem to keep getting elected.”
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