Mark and Ed (back with the baptists)

I really like both of these Baptists. Sometimes you don't even realize Ed Stetzer (on the right) is a Baptist. He is. Stetzer is like the Reformed version of George Barna. Mark Dever (on the left) "sticks out like Joel Osteen at MacArthur's Shepherd's conference--but the other way around." Watch the second video on youtube also. When these guys start talking about the "regulative principle" they are referring to John Calvin's principle on worship. Calvin says our Bible regulates how we worship God. He then says, as I understand it, that as long as the Bible doesn't restrict a practice of worship, it is ok to incorporate it.

Dever paints "contextualization" very intelligently and I can agree with him completely. What is said about personalities in preaching is also interesting. Enjoy my friend(s).