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Calvinistic Piety And The Tulip Driven Life E-Book

By: Thomas F. Booher For more posts about The Tulip Driven Life E-Book, go  here. As usual, I refer to piety as Calvinistic because I believe Calvinism is an accurate reflection of what Scripture teaches. However, I also believe that those who hold to the doctrines of grace will find certain temptations greater than others who hold to a different theology of Scripture. If God is sovereign, why evangelize? If God is sovereign, why pray? If God is sovereign, why discipline yourself and your children? If God is sovereign, why concern yourself with piety and holiness at all? Won't God grow us when He is good and ready by Himself? Those who hold to a free will theology do not have the aforementioned issues inherent in their theology. Rather, their problem is that they must evangelize, pray, and discipline themselves and their children without an all-sovereign God. Further, they believe that they can do these things without God being sovereign. What this does do is put the im