It is not an exaggeration to say that for this generation, it represents what the Banner of Truth Trust was for the last the vehicle by which mass exposure is brought to the teachings of those spiritual giants who walked before us. In the last ten years, at least, God has used the Internet to do more to bring exposure to historical reformed theology than anything else. Undoubtedly, access to historical and contemporary treatments of the doctrines of grace on the Internet has something to do with this. Interest in the writings of the Puritans, the theology of Jonathan Edwards, and the preaching of Charles Spurgeon and Martyn Lloyd-Jones, has increased exponentially. In these days, the old paths are being trodden afresh. In the third place, across denomination boundaries, God has been pleased to open many formerly blinded eyes to the truth and light of the doctrines of grace. In such circumstances, to make the person an explicit Calvinist, all we are required to do (humanly speaking) is to show the believer the natural implications of these already-held fundamental principles, which underlie all true Christianity, and trust God to do his work, that is, trust God to reveal these implications to the person. For whoever believes in Gods redemption through Christ and recognizes his own utter dependence on God, whoever recognizes that salvation is of the Lord, whoever seeks to glorify God in his worship and life, that person is already implicitly a Calvinist, no matter what he calls himself. Wherever true Christians exist, hope for revival must also exist. In the second place, despite evangelicalisms turmoil, there remain true Christians present in America. The same God who opened our own eyes can open the eyes of others. Still, we have hope for revival because our hope is in the God who revives. In Gods sovereign providence, Christianity has been wiped out of other cultures over the centuries of its history. And yet we should be quick to acknowledge, of course, that God is not obligated to keep his church existent in America. Obviously the future of Christianity itself is not in doubt, for our Lord declared that the gates of hell shall not prevail against Gods church. It follows, then, that the future of Christianity itself is bound up in the fortunes of Calvinism. In the first place, Calvinistic Christianity is nothing more and nothing less than biblical Christianity. We have reasons to hope for a full recovery. Our prescription for a cure is that our churches return to the old paths from whence they drifted. In Chapter 2, we offered our diagnosis of the problem with American evangelicalism: It is sick and dying because it has abandoned its Calvinistic foundations. The Beginnings of Reformation inThe Southern Baptist Convention:
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