Ronnie W. Rogers

Pastors Dare Not Become Enablers of Spiritual Milkoholics

By Ronnie W. Rogers / August 22, 2016 / Comments Off on Pastors Dare Not Become Enablers of Spiritual Milkoholics

I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Indeed, even now you are not yet able (1 Corinthians 3:2) Note the past tense verb, gave milk, referring to times in the past when Paul taught the Corinthians milk because they were not ready for meat and that…

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The Pastor’s Idol

By Ronnie W. Rogers / August 15, 2016 / Comments Off on The Pastor’s Idol

If preachers are not constantly studying things that challenge them spiritually and intellectually, then it is disingenuous for them to challenge the church to study the deep things of God and spend time with Him.

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Decoding Calvinism: Does Unconditional Election Include a Forced Change, a Freely Chosen Change, or Both?

By Ronnie W. Rogers / August 8, 2016 / Comments Off on Decoding Calvinism: Does Unconditional Election Include a Forced Change, a Freely Chosen Change, or Both?

There are many examples of confusing language regarding man’s free exercise of faith in Calvinism. Lewis Sperry Chafer responds to Arminians rejection of the term “sovereign grace” and their charge that such coerces or annuls the human will by saying, “No step can be taken in the accomplishment of His sovereign purpose which will even…

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Knowing God Deeply

By Ronnie W. Rogers / July 31, 2016 / Comments Off on Knowing God Deeply

True spiritual wisdom is to believe what God says above our human learning, wisdom, and thus pursue His wisdom so that we may truly be wise. The first thought that should come to our minds when someone brings something up about a topic is, what does the Bible say? We may not know, but we…

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They Say Eternal Punishment is Cruel

By Ronnie W. Rogers / July 25, 2016 / Comments Off on They Say Eternal Punishment is Cruel

Some propose that it is unusually cruel of God to punish man for eternity, regardless of what man did. This perspective is erroneous for four reasons. First, it is based on an inadequate view of the heinousness of sin. Because man is sinful, he is utterly incapable of apprehending or appreciating the sinfulness of sin.…

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Think About IT: When a Christian Is NOT a Christian

By Ronnie W. Rogers / July 18, 2016 / Comments Off on Think About IT: When a Christian Is NOT a Christian

Being a Christian does not mean one is believed to be a Christian. The most important thing is that one knows he is a Christian, and the second is that others know that. One may know he is a Christian because of Romans 10:9-10, but the world knows it by whether Christians love one another.…

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Grace Enablements

By Ronnie W. Rogers / July 5, 2016 / Comments Off on Grace Enablements

Grace enablements include but are not limited to God’s salvific love for all (John 3:16), God’s manifestation of his power so that all may know he is the Sovereign (Isa 45:21–22), and Creator (Rom 1:18–20), which assures that everyone has an opportunity to know about him. Christ paying for all sins (Luke 22:20;[1] John 1:29),…

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Compatible and Libertarian Freedom

By Ronnie W. Rogers / July 5, 2016 / Comments Off on Compatible and Libertarian Freedom

A Comparison of Calvinism’s compatible view of moral freedom and Extensivism’s libertarian freedom In order to understand the actual contrast between Calvinism’s view of the nature of God, His sovereign rule over His creation, and His salvation plan, with that of Extensivism’s view of the same, one must understand the two position’s vastly different views…

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The Quest of Faithful Shepherds

By Ronnie W. Rogers / July 4, 2016 / Comments Off on The Quest of Faithful Shepherds

Maturing and equipping involves developing new thinking until we “bring every thought captive to the obedience of Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5), and those thoughts are manifested in our speech, motivations, goals, ethics, etc. We continually work in order to transform spiritual infants into mature followers of Christ, thereby empowering them to have victory over the…

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Thoughts Regarding Extensivism and Why I Chose the Term to Represent My Perspective on God’s Great Salvation Plan

By Ronnie W. Rogers / June 27, 2016 / Comments Off on Thoughts Regarding Extensivism and Why I Chose the Term to Represent My Perspective on God’s Great Salvation Plan

I use the term Extensivism to encapsulate my soteriological (salvational) understanding. I gave considerable thought in choosing the term. Although only used by me (hence, the need to continuously define for others), it does seem to be free of negative connotations and appears to me to be a suitable parallel for discussing soteriology within this…

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