Calvinist Flyswatter

What Kind of "Gospel" Are The Founders Trying To "Restore"?

In this article, Brother Bob Ross asks whether Founders Ministries (yes, they really believe what they are doing is a ministry) is "restoring" the true gospel or not.

See also his articles, Founders Fizzle While Florida Burns, and "Floundering" In Florida.

For information regarding the "regeneration before faith" heresy held by most Founders fellows, including Brother Tom Ascol, see Brother Bob's article, "Regeneration in Relation to Faith in Calvinist Theology."

Charles
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WHAT KIND OF "GOSPEL" ARE THE FOUNDERS TRYING TO "RESTORE"? [07/27--2007]

The "Founders Ministries," founded by the late Ernest Reisinger and now headed by Pastor Tom Ascol of Cape Coral, Florida, frequently alleges that they are endeavoring to "recover" or "rediscover" the Gospel.

In pursuit of this professed purpose, they have recently indicated on their blog the following report of mailing a DVD to Southern Baptist Pastors in the State of Florida --

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Nearly 3000 copies of the "Amazing Grace: The History and Theology of Calvinism" were put in the mail today and should be landing in the mailboxes of Florida Baptist pastors over the next few days. Nearly 3000 copies of the "Amazing Grace: The History and Theology of Calvinism" were put in the mail today and should be landing in the mailboxes of Florida Baptist pastors over the next few days.
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As we noted in an earlier email, the Flounders squandered about $20,000 in this project which essentially is a propaganda disk advocating Hybrid Calvinism theology -- a mixture of truth and error as held by modern Presbyterianism which maintains that children born into Christian families are "regenerated" in early infancy. There are at least five (5) ministers whom I recognize as Presbyterian ministers who speak on this disk.

If Tom Ascol and the "Flounders" believe this disk represents the Gospel, they do indeed need to discover the Gospel. If these Presbyterians ministers really believe the Gospel of Christ, why would they in effect deny the Gospel by teaching that their babies are "regenerated" in infancy and do not need to be born again when they grow older?

What kind of "Gospel" is it when ministers baptize babies, receive them into the church as born again members, and teach their congregations that this is what it means to be "born again"?

If the "Flounders" are really interested in promoting the Gospel, why don't they purchase 3000 copies of the book, THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SPURGEON, and mail it to the pastors in Florida? It would do far more good than the DVD which promotes modern Presbyterianism's distortion of theological "Calvinism."

-- Bob L. Ross

posted by Charles @ 2:42 PM