Blog
Wow, you have stumbled upon our archived website with old blog posts and sermon recordings. To see the current website, visit https://www.calvarygreenville.org
  • Register

I’m not.  My allegiance goes to an earlier time in the history of the church.  Paul wrote that believers are God’s building; God is fitting us together building us upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone.  We all need to look the Cornerstone first and always.  That said, I am not anti-Calvin either.  Have you ever read his Institutes?  If that is too much for you, read Calvin’s “A Little Book on the Christian Life.”  You will be blessed and encouraged in the gift of life that God has provided to those who come to Him by faith.  Calvin had some amazing insights into our life with God.  I’ll mention one of Calvin’s simple quotes on Sunday, he wrote, “Our salvation is not through works, though, it is not without works.”  That one sentence dispenses with the tension that people often have between justification and sanctification.   Are works involved in our salvation?  No and Yes!  We are not saved by our works but we are saved to do good works.  Justification by faith is not a license to sin.  In fact, as we’ll see in Galatians, if that were the case, Christ becomes the minister of sin!  Since we are declared righteous through faith, God intends to make us what He has declared us to be—righteous!  Mr. Calvin had that right because he agreed with Paul who was giving the Galatians a fresh hearing of the Cornerstone Himself.