Andrew Owen 🦡
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Reformed Baptist. Lover of Covenant Theology. Student of Reformers and Puritans. Husband. Dad. Scotch and coffee. Member of Grace Life Church, Ankeny
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Reading: 10 tweets of reflection and exhortation.
About 5 years ago, I was listening to Tim Keller do an interview, I think with Desiring God. One of the questions they asked Tim was, “what’s the single greatest piece of advice you would give to young Christian men?” (1)
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Maybe just faithfully shepherd the flock of Christ and don’t worry about it
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I woke up this morning a mere man, not knowing that by 9am I’d be a king
(I have a February birthday and REALLY generous parents)
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Turns out there is something much, much better on Sunday mornings. Praise God for his sovereign grace. All you who know the Lord, praise him for undeserved, unmerited sovereign grace.
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Reasons I’ll continue to stay on Twitter in 2019:
@rayortlund
@ThabitiAnyabwil
@BethMooreLPM
@drmoore
@JohnPiper
@TonyReinke
@douglaswils
@ostrachan
I’ve never met any of you but you have been shepherds, challengers, and encouragers to me and I’m so grateful for you all
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Respectfully to paedobaptist brethren:
If your theological reasoning requires wine for the Lord’s Supper but doesn’t require immersion for baptism, then your theological reasoning has a major contradiction
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My family is too good to me! Goal for 2022: reclaim 1689 for the kind, charitable, confessional 1689 Federalists :)
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Sam Renihan on one of many reasons why children of believers are not born into the covenant of grace
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But if I could encourage you, ordinary Christian, towards any goal next year, alongside the ordinary public and private means of grace, it’s to start reading and find a way to do it consistently. (10/end)
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CN as currently proposed has yet to convince me that this isn’t an outcome
Given only two options, I would rather live in a nation governed by…
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Guys can we please stop publishing books with massive 2nd commandment violations as covers.
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-the sabbath is grounded in creation
-the sabbath expectation exists before the giving of the Law on Sinai
-Jesus declares himself Lord of the sabbath
-Jesus is clear that he by no means abolishes any of God’s moral law
-there remains a sabbath rest for the people of God
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Cancellable theology take of the day: Theonomy is utterly incompatible with with historical confessional Baptist theology
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@BethMooreLPM
@ostrachan
Beth, unless you spent the last 40 years preaching Sunday morning from the pulpit in the fuctional role of an elder, I see a massive disconnect between what Owen said in his article and what you are saying in response
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In most ways I am a baby Christian. Im just a 30 year old layman with 3 crazy little kids and a full time job. But I desperately want to know and love God more and live a life that honors him. God help me in this pursuit because most days I fail at it. (9)
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Another stellar year of Christmas gifts from my parents
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Friendly reminder that Calvinistic dispensationalism is miles away from Reformed theology
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It’s interesting how so many modern evangelicals have demystified baptism and the Lord’s Supper into bare ceremonies but have become hyper-mystical in seeking to encounter the Spirit through emotive worship songs, and seeking signs from God in life decisions, etc
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The apostle Paul was a baptistic congregationalist
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Hot take: if someone was baptized following what was at the time deemed a credible profession of faith, they never should (nor actually can) be “rebaptized” if they later determine that they don’t think they were truly born again at the time of the first baptism
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One problem with dispensational premillennialism is it imposes a hermaneutic onto the OT that is utterly foreign to the hermaneutic used by Christ and the Apostles.
We must take our cues on interpreting Scripture from Scripture itself.
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I am once again asking Christian publishers to stop posting depictions of Christ all over their book covers.
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Being a baptist is utterly incompatible with:
-theonomy
-establishmentarianism
-magisterial enforcement of the 1st table of the Decalogue
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1689 baptists: *attempt to exist*
Random cage stage reformed who shares confessions with liberal denominations and who’s *conservative* denomination allowed Revoice to happen: “BaPtIsTs ArE lIkE TrAnS pPl
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“Believers do not obtain salvation because they believe, but because Christ has merited it for them. He applies it to them through the instrumentality of faith.”
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For an accessible yet thorough explanation of the historic Baptist confessional view of covenant theology, see Sam Renihan’s “The Mystery of Christ His Covenant & His Kingdom
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First book of 2023 finished. The dust cover stayed on the whole time and still intact.
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Christ calling Lazarus from the tomb precedes Lazarus walking out of the tomb
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Getting a head start on my 2023 reading list! First up:
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What in the actual heck does a normal Christian of reformed persuasion have to do in 2023 to get a modern work that doesn’t have a violation of the 2nd commandment on the cover?
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Sproul: "If we take away the covenant of works...we take away justification by faith alone"
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Baptistic
Congregational
Calvinistic
Covenantal (1689 Fed)
Amillenial (2K)
Sacramental (reformed)
Credal
Classical theism
This is the way. Of me at least.
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“Calvinism + maybe a few other little things”. This guy is clueless.
-Christology
-regulative principle
-covenantal
-real spiritual presence
-Credal
-law gospel distinction
…I could go on. But according to attention seeking anon it’s just little things
The reason I won't call "reformed" baptists Reformed is:
1. They didn't call themselves that until recently
2. Calling them that reduces the definition of "Reformed" to predestination plus MAYBE a few other little things
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Which of these 4 sets should I tackle on the 2024 reading plan?
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Big day for the Owen household. Or at very least for dad.
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Benjamin Keach:
“Prove [Timothy] was baptized when he was an infant, and I will become a Pedo Baptist”
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If baptism mechanically imparts regenerative grace then it is unloving not to baptize *everyone’s* children. Heck everyone themselves. Literally baptize the nations, whether they consent or not. Why would you deny them what they most need?
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Idk which baptists need to hear this - there is one covenant household and it is only the Church. There is one covenant children and it is only those born of the Spirit of God
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Just a reminder to all my Reformed friends - Johnson and Strachan are not reformed/particular/1689 Baptists, nor do they represent our confession, our doctrine of God, our theology proper, etc
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Amil because it holds a consistent, proper, and historical hermaneutic across the entire canon. In other words, it gives the fairest treatment to the entire canon of scripture and does not violate the analogy of faith
A-Mill
PostMill
Pre-Mill
Which do you hold to?? And WHY?
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I’m really grateful for my church’s pastor. His name is Seth Channell. He’s not really on social media. He wouldn’t call himself a theologian. But man, he preaches the word. He loves the Lord. He faithfully plods. He guards the flock. He sets an example to emulate.
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Presbyterian friends -
Are your baptized children “in Adam” and therefore children under wrath until they receive the gift of regeneration and its fruit - faith & repentance - which effects union with Christ, remission of sins, and forensic righteousness?
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So what if we stopped looking for hermeneutical loopholes to avoid obeying 10% of God’s eternal moral law, called the sabbath a delight, and enjoyed the blessing that God has for those who keep it?
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Baptists need to be much more careful with their language.
🚨🚨NOT BREAKING NEWS🚨🚨
Baptizing anyone who is unregenerate violates Scripture and the RPW.
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For those unaware, the official Honey Badger Baptist position on the Lord’s Supper is a true spiritual presence of Christ in Elements and is identical to Calvin and the Reformed Orthodox
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Apparently the jury is out on how to shop for me. My family is the best!
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My theology from 2016 to 2023
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Kim Riddlebarger:
“Christ is not returning to set up a half-way kingdom that itself has to be redeemed at the end of 1000 years. He’s coming back to raise the dead, judge the world, and make all things new”
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“Those who are known by God most certainly must depart from iniquity. Whomever God chooses unto salvation, He also chooses unto holiness. The sanctification of the elect is the evidence that God has chosen them”
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Infant baptism is still a part and pillar of popery
Baptists throughout history have still declared unity with those Protestants who, along with baptizing babies, proclaim Wholesome Protestant Doctrine
So take off the sectarian modernity bias and don’t be a jerk
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Baptists throwing away baptistic convictions and the entire theological underpinning of the tradition over a few grams of ethanol in their communion cup will be, well, really really dumb
The baptists defending grape juice communion will be the death of my credobaptism
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Nothing has made a bigger difference I don’t think, in my understanding of the Bible and it’s doctrines, my awe towards God and understanding of who He is, my love for the Church, and my joy in, desire for and hunger for communion with God, than this habit of reading has. (8)
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Just finished. Cannot commend highly enough. Book of the year for me so far
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Sam Renihan:
"We thus use the covenant of redemption, not the Abrahamic covenant, as the pattern for covenant membership in the new covenant because that is where Christ’s federal headship is established."
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Renihan with a very important observation about the change in the 2LC from “good and necessary consequences” (WCF) to “necessarily contained”
He asserts the baptists changed the wording to retrieve a distinguishing between biblical reasoning and unaided human reasoning (1/9)
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How to do Twitter right:
1) find some solid bros
2) debate covenant theology with said solid bros
3) learn, grow, enjoy
4) repeat step 2
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Is this the RSC ripple effect? 19 year olds in the PCUSA now think they can be reformed gatekeepers
If you think Baptism doesn’t save, you’re not Reformed
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It’s so interesting how every great Reformed theologian lays out a beautiful treatment of biblical baptism, how God uses it as a sacrament unto believers, how all of its benefits are clearly ascertained through faith, and then conclude also do this to your babies cus circumcision
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The Sabbath is a rehearsal for Heaven.
Day of all the week the best;
Emblem of eternal rest
Don’t squander the opportunity!
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I’ll gather in a converted Pizza Hut, if that’s where the gospel is faithfully preached and the sacraments rightly administered. Give me beautiful architecture but never at the expense of the right worship of the true church
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@brentblum
Plus, if they stick to their own rules and let IU play NW in the championship game, that winner likely gets a NY6 bowl along with tOSU
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@ifffster
With all due respect brother, thousands of pages have been published on this. Asking folks to give Twitter-sized answers to this is like asking someone to stick an elephant in their kitchen sink
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A couple more reasons baptists do not baptize infants:
1) they understand typological relationships
2) they do not conflate the precepts of separate positive laws
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Aside from Scripture, here are the books I read in 2021. It’s small compared to many of you, but I praise God that so much has been preserved in writing throughout church history, and is accessible for an average layman like me. Looking forward for more great reading in 22!
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The Mosaic Covenant is an administration of the Covenant of Grace.
Full stop.
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Some Presbyterians will see the covenantal, Calvinistic, credal, regulative principled, sabbatarian, 2CV-upholding baptists and be like, “nah, we’re way more like Lutherans cus of the babies”
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2013 was a good year. Became a Christian in February. In July I met the woman who became my wife
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If John Owen and Thomas Goodwin managed to defy old age and live another 100 years into the 18th century, their theological trajectory would have literally just been John Gill
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But just so we’re clear:
Canons of Dort 1.11
And as God himself is most wise, unchangeable, omniscient and omnipotent, so the election made by him can neither be interrupted nor changed, recalled or annulled; neither can the elect be cast away, nor their number diminished.
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2024 is going to be LIT
Quote with four you’re going to read/finish reading in 2024
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Is baptism an act of obedience, which the baptizant “does”? In some sense yes.
But the main and much richer emphasis is what God has done (which baptism signifies) and what God does, through baptism, when it’s benefits are apprehended by faith
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Dr Cooper: “let me tell you about what Lutherans have confessed for 500 years”
Christian Twitter: “what is this new doctrine whereof thou speakest? For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears”
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If this statement is false, then so is paedobaptism
T or F: God will look at the majority of people in the New Covenant and say, “I find no pleasure in you”
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Paedobaptists: “baptists are schismatics! By definition they can’t be catholic!”
Also paedobaptists: “baptists are quick to appropriate theological truths from other traditions throughout church history! Ha! They’re so lame!”
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Final family Christmas gathering (secret Santa with siblings) - cherry on top of maybe the best Christmas book haul ever
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A masculinity that does not include gentleness and humility is not a Christian masculinity
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Little known secret of Congregationalists: the elders actually do conduct oversight
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J. Renihan:
“It must be noted that at least the 1644 edition of the 1LBC is the product of untrained theologians-men who didn’t have any specific theological instruction in the universities. these were not Puritan worthies, whose books were famous; they were laymen… (1/2)
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“Confessions are not more authoritative than the scriptures, but they are more authoritative than you.”
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@SteveMeisterVDM
, paraphrased
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I believe I have finally finalized the 2024 reading list
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To describe oneself as “reformed”, among other things, is to make a commitment to certain beliefs about Christology, Law/Gospel distinction, Theology Proper, the real sacramental presence of Christ, redemptive-historical hermeneutics, and the regulative principle of worship.
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Imagine what William Kiffen would think of baptists being in the CREC. If you can’t, then go read some Kiffen
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Likewise if you claim to be Baptist, then be Baptist. Baptists are not generic evangelicals
If you’re Anglican, be Anglican. If we wanted a generic Evangelical experience we would go to a Baptist church. Anglicans are constantly trying to be what they aren’t or are ashamed and apologizing for what they are. It’s tiring.
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I have a legitimate question for my Presbyterian/reformed friends; not a “gotcha” in any way, and will not invoke any contrarian response from me, I’m just genuinely curious:
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Paul could not be much more clear: the Church is the true Israel as they are one with Christ who is the true Israel. Physical Israel is typological of true (spiritual) Israel.
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The 7th day sabbath was tied to the act of creation. God blessed and hallowed the day. He possessed it uniquely.
The 1st day sabbath is tied to the act of new creation. The resurrection of Christ is a first fruits. (1 Cor 15:23). Christ possesses it uniquely (Rev 1:10). (1/2)
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