Don't Hate Me Because I'm Arminian
My Reformed friends sometimes treat me like the enemy, but actually we need each other.
Roger E. Olson | posted 9/06/1999 12:00AM
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Since that day at Aunt Margaret's funeral, I have rubbed shoulders with numerous Reformed evangelicals and learned to appreciate both them and their theology even while remaining convinced of my own perspective both biblically and logically. All I ask is that they return the favor and learn to accept those of us who are their evangelical brothers and sisters in the faith in spite of their own conviction of the superiority of their theology.
Surely we can learn to work and witness and worship together again as we have done in the past. Even John Wesley and his Calvinist colleague George White field patched up their friendship before they died. Wesley preached at Whitefield's funeral. It was all to the glory of God and his eternal kingdom that he did.
Roger E. Olson, a Christianity Today consulting editor, is the author of The Story of Christian Theology (InterVarsity Press, 1999).
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