“Marks of a true Conversion” -George Whitefield

[Ronnie]

In his school and college days Whitefield experienced a strong religious awakening that he called a “new birth.” At Oxford he became an intimate of the Methodists John and Charles Wesley, and at their invitation he joined them in their missionary work in the colony of Georgia in 1738. He was already known as an eloquent evangelist. The rest of his career was divided between evangelical preaching throughout the American colonies from Georgia to Massachusetts and itinerant preaching in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. He believed that every truly religious person needs to experience a rebirth in Jesus; aside from this, he cared little for distinctions of denomination or geography. He played a leading part in the Great Awakening of religious life in the British American colonies and in the early Methodist movement.

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Marks of a True Conversion by George Whitefield

George Whitefield :: Marks of a True Conversion

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[Andy C]

Was not Whitefield a die hard calvinist, adhering to all five points of calvinism?

 

[mattfivefour]

Whitefield was an odd duck and hard to decipher in terms of theology in that He passionately preached the gospel to the lost, begging them to repent and turn to Christ for salvation; yet at the same time he claimed to believe firmly in the five points of Calvinism, including unconditional election, limited atonement, and irresistible grace! (For those who do not know, those three beliefs teach that God has chosen who will be saved and who will be lost and the individual has no say in the matter.)

Therefore, Whitefield's theology makes no sense to me, because by his preaching he disavowed the truth of those three things and by those three things he disavowed the truth of his preaching. Same thing with Spurgeon. So, with each of them, regardless of what they said they believed, I go by what they actually proved they believed by what they did. In other words, they preached the gospel of Jesus Christ to the lost. Therefore they must have believed the individual had the ability to choose. They can call themselves Calvinist till the sun goes down, but by their very ministries they show me the opposite.