Definitions and dogmas
So, what’s it all about anyway? What befuddles me?
Calvanism
Reconstructionism (not the post Civil War era that the kids just studied)
Theonomy or Theocracy
Postmillenialism
Reformed
Fundamentalism
Evangelical
Protestant (the one I always pick when questioned at hospital registration…but is it accurate?)
I can’t get into details behind my recent delvings since this forum is too public and the causation is too new. At any rate, some recent occurances have caused me to look into things. Find out what’s going on in the church world these days. What types of churches are homeschool families landing in? Why do they choose those churches? Why do they stay in those churches? Why do they leave them?
Fran and I have a whole pocket full of church experiences. Soup to nuts. East Coast. West Coast. South and north. We’ve tried all kinds of churches in all kinds of places. We understand the struggle. We’ve been around the block a few times.
Now I must complete my own primer of definitions of opinions and beliefs. I’m happy where I am, don’t get me wrong. I simply want to know why people around me make the choices they make. I want to have intelligent knowledge of what I’m talking about. How can I do that if I don’t know the basic premise of each of the words above? The problem is, I read the definitions, learn about them, converse, come to a conclusion, make some decisions based on the conclusions, then I walk away and forget the definitions and conversations that persuaded me. How can I discuss it with others later with this process continuing in my head?