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I agree 100% with you and Pete. I must read at least a dozen "Statement of Faith" pages on church websites every week and they are so ambiguous that nearly anyone could feel comfortable with them. They are deliberately evasive, IMHO, so it appears that they espouse a "Lowest Common Denominator Theology" so that ALL are welcome. Of course, the "ALL" is not indiscriminate for such statements are hardly satisfying to anyone who is Reformed, i.e., they believe in propositional, absolute truth which they also believe is only to be found in Scripture.

One of the most obnoxious statements for me, which is so often found on church websites, is the one that allegedly deals with sin and man's condition after the Fall. Invariably it is worded something like, all men are "separated from God"... that's it! There is no mention of Original Sin (imputed guilt and inherited corruption of nature) because of which all men are under the wrath and condemnation of God. It doesn't make a wit of difference if one is even born never mind committed some sin, be it ever so 'insignificant'. Thus there is no mention of the sinner needing a radical change of nature which can only come from the sovereign mercy of God and the secret working of the Holy Spirit in whosoever God wills.

Anyway... this particular church from which this small sampling came also opening rejects the "Regulative Principle of Worship" and states that the Bible nowhere directs us how to worship God. Doubtless you will all then guess that they have a "worship team" and practice a contemporary form of 'worship'. Boy how I hate even using the term "worship" when referring to such practice.

There is no mention of the Sabbath, no inkling as to their eschatology and much more of the same in regard to other important doctrinal and practical matters. Yet, I suspect that the "leadership" would claim to be Reformed. What I see is simply another instance of the emerging "New Calvinism".

That's my