Our Indiana\/Kentucky region of the American Baptist Church recently made a deal with RightNow Media, “the world’s largest library of Bible study video resources”.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
It’s a subscription service where the church pays a flat monthly due based on church size. The church is then able to distribute access to the media across its membership at no extra cost.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
So ABC churches are being offered a discount and all the area pastors had a Zoom call the other day with one of RightNow’s sales reps. He showed us all the tens of thousands of videos in their library.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
It’s impressive.<\/p>\n\n\n
The sales rep assured us that they have the highest standards for screening the content on their platform.<\/p>\n\n\n
But what does he mean by that?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
He said they feature only biblically sound teaching.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
BUT as the biggest names flashed by, I noticed at least half of the featured teachers are Calvinists.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
I understand the challenges involved in pulling together a diverse group of Bible teachers all under one roof – especially when one man’s “biblically sound doctrine” is another man’s heresy.<\/p>\n\n\n
And I’m not saying that I could never find value in something being taught by a Calvinist teacher.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
But they do have a particular theology and anthropology which tend to color their teaching even when it’s not directly touching the “5 Points”.<\/p>\n\n\n
And I think that is something worth guarding against.<\/p>\n\n\n
Maybe it would be helpful to have descriptions on each video in the RightNow library with theological biases listed.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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