Some believe God is so sovereign …

That He can’t choose to allow people to reject His grace.

Which means that they’re trying to protect His sovereignty …

By denying His sovereignty.

As a result, they’ve made an idol out of their own trans-Biblical, philosophical view of “sovereignty” …

Resulting in too low a view of God and His actual sovereignty.

Nonetheless, they compound their problems by then straining to filter all the rest of God’s Word – plus all the rest of life and everyone else – through the seeve of that core absurdity.

By so doing, they’ve become the arrogant new Pharisees of our day, captive to a dry intellectual edifice of their own creation …

Built on further absurdities heaped upon absurdities.

Is it any wonder, then, that it’s nearly impossible to find the joyous, dynamic life of Christ – or vibrant, multi-gifted Christian community – among them?

Although they are our brothers and sisters in Christ …

It’s time to recognize that they are our weaker siblings, rather than giving them the prominence they presume to demand among us.