Why I am Reformed - KingdomCraft

[azaeladel]

I'm a Christian in a muslim country, been hiding my faith from everyone and reading the bible in secret for about 2 years now.. Dreamed of going to the church and joining a community of worship for months. Would love to visit your church and worship together with you in Minecraft! I'll be joining as soon as you publicly open the server.

[knightshade]

My Catholic family stopped going to church while I was still in lower school. While I always considered myself religious, I did not actually know what being a Christian meant beyond liking Jesus. When I entered university, I knew that I wanted to learn more about the faith and expected to join a Catholic group. However, I signed up for many Christian clubs during the club fair, including a reformed one. After signing up, a senior began sending me a message every few days asking when I would like to talk to learn more about the club. I kept delying the meeting because of work and nervousness, but, when we did finally talk, I felt relieved to see how friendly he was, and he even gave me my first Bible (ESV).
Now, I am part of the club's leadership and look forward to going to Bible study every week and whatever special, semi-weekly event we have. I do find myself caught between Catholic and Protastant teachings but feel that studying both has helped grow my relationship with God greatly. You are right that Reformed people can be nerdy, but that makes them great.

[gamecubeus]

I grew up next to a Presbyterian church. Absolutely beautiful on the outside, I've never been inside unfortunately. Jesus saved me after I moved away.

[pjohnnyboy]

You gotta do a server tour of everything you’ve built

[elboyouc]

Even though I'm not Reformed, I enjoyed the video and hearing about things from a different perspective.

If you were to continue this series I think 'Why I'm not Seventh-Day Adventist' would be a good next denomination to talk about.

[Quisl]

Redeemed Zoomer is only a few days away from becoming a Lutheran!

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[clispyleaf]

You are so blessed. There's nothing like that here in Wales, we're up to our necks in emotionalism or heresy-level progressivism here, it's either one or the other wherever you look. No calvinist churches here either, they're all either actually methodist, or they're dead or dying. My soul yearns for a solid presbyterian church.
I'm the exact same as you on being attracted by the particularities of the reformed faith. Listening to you and your rational and charitable takes is refreshing me very much. Thank you and bless you. Soli Deo Gloria!

[Tkibbs]

The more I watch your videos, the more I relate to both you and your theological ideas. I’m 23 years old, I grew up Baptist, but I’m working at Three Methodist Churches. However, I’ve never been to a Presbyterian Church and by the way you’ve been describing things in a lot of your videos, it’s sounding more appealing. Like you, I am a Musician. I play in the symphony. I grew up going to Baptist and nondenominational churches, and contemporary worship is not at all appealing to me, even at an earlier age.. I’m also still trying to figure out where I sit with my faith and doctrinal values. I’m working at 2 Methodist churches that are disaffiliated, and one Methodist Church that’s going to stay UMC. It’s going to be very interesting to see how it all works out.

[jesselucas]

I’m not reformed but I absolutely love your content. I have a channel that just launched focusing on discipleship and new believers, I’m also going to be launching a Christian gaming channel shortly.

I would love the opportunity to do some stuff with you in the future when that starts up.

Keep it coming brother! Great content!

[padenvan]

Your journey was almost identical to mine. I grew up in a Baptist church and when I came of age and began studying theology, Church history (including things like the Ecumenical Councils and the Reformation), and Christianity and other religions as a whole, I became very distraught because I realized how non-cogent the teachings of the independent Baptist church I was raised in were, and began to feel even that our extremely low church service felt wrong. I was close to losing my faith, and had basically arrived at an amorphous vision of Reformed theology without knowing there was a word for it and a tradition associated with it. It wasn’t until going off to college that I found that there is a rich tradition built upon scripture that stands upon the shoulders of the giants of Christian history and was incredibly God-centered. I became a member of a PCA church and have, for the first time since switching denominations a few years ago, finally felt like I’d found a religious home.

[JumpdeArt]

I so agree with the theory of evolution! In fact, evolution makes me even more amazed of God’s power. God can do both. It was so refreshing to hear you share this perspective, and your other points were thoughtful as well

[billyrayphillips]

As a fairly new Presby, longtime Reformed Baptist, I greatly enjoyed your perspective, especially comparing Lutheranism to Reformed theology.

[pawlaovicto]

You know, as an introvert man myself, I wonder how much I would fit myself in a solemn church service. Maybe that's even the reason why I felt inadequate at the pentecostal services most of the times. Lately my professors said I was so introverted that I might even be autistic.
I mean, my brethren at the church never actually said that I was inadequate. In fact they always emphasized what a "young man of God" I was, how well I "exposed the Word of God (Holy Scriptures)" and the like
I've been thinking of what I should do as a Christian or if I even should be a Christian. But one thing I could do, as a Christian and future psychologist, is to show people what theology and cult most adequates to them and maybe how the Church needs them

[jpanda]

Predestination is where you very much lose me. Though I do like hearing about how you came to your conclusions

[JabberWkie]

Interesting points, and I somewhat agree with most all of them. The main one I don’t completely agree with is how to think about predestination. I’m not sure if you were necessarily discarding free will, but I don’t think free will and predestination are incompatible. Without going into detail, I believe God wants us to choose Him of our own free will, but He still controls the events in our lives in a way that nudges us to make that decision. And certainly, He has controlled events in a way that ensured His plan of salvation would succeed.

The idea of no free will makes me question why God would allow the fall of man in the first place. He could have predestined it to have never happened, yet it was Adam’s choice to submit to his own will rather than God’s will that resulted in plan of salvation being necessary in the first place.

Regarding emotionalism, I am an analytical, nerdy guy myself, so I tend to agree with you. However, I also recognize my tendency towards logic and reason as incomplete. Our emotions can and do lead us astray, but not always. Myself, I tend to suppress my emotions, which makes me feel a certain dishonesty towards God.
The Word tells us to “make a joyful noise“ to the Lord, after all. I think the confusion lies in that we have developed a systematic religiosity where we are supposed to do so routinely every Sunday (or Saturday) within the two hour time frame of our church services. It’s almost robotic, as if we have a “joy switch“ that is supposed to flip on as soon as the worship music starts or when a preacher starts his performance. Genuine emotion, to me, should mostly happen in the spur of the moment and less by a time slot. That is not to say I don’t think anyone should show emotion in church, as long as it doesn’t interfere with them being sober-minded.

[sirjackson]

@Redeemed Zoomer, You should do a video on the compatibility of Evolution (distinguishing macro and micro) and the Creation story of Genesis.

[davidshaptala]

Awesome video man! I would love to hear from you more about your view of creation. I heard you in one of your videos mention you still believe in evolution and would love to hear you clarify more of that.

[DevotionToChrist]

I really liked the funeral analogy for reformed worship, as funny as it sounds. I attend a solidly biblical (even sort of Calvinistic leaning) “non-denominational” church, which I love, but I am very frustrated by the contemporary worship. Thankfully the worship band has sort of moved away from using hillsong or bethel music and toward music written by church members, but I still dislike the contemporary style. I’d much prefer the service to be like a funeral than like a rock concert, sense worship is a weighty thing, and it contains both joy and sadness, just like mourning the passing on of a loved one. The contemporary rock band worship also seems a little too similar to pre-reformation spectator worship where congregants would just listen to a performance of a song rather than sing it themselves. Congregational singing wasn’t really a thing in the medieval church before Luther reintroduced it. In contemporary worship congregants still sing, but I’ve found that I can almost never hear myself, or anyone who doesn’t have a microphone, singing. I visited an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church a few months ago, and I was absolutely in awe at their congregation acappella hymn singing. Sorry for the long comment, I just have a lot of thoughts about this stuff and not many people to talk to it about. Thanks for all your excellent videos.

[__-tnhw]

If God plans out all events in history, doesn't that make Him responsible for sin?

[erekgamingberliner]

I really liked this video because I wasn't sure what denomination I should be but this made me sure. I do just have one more thing I want to say though I really wish you fight for truth, and the daily Disciple would do a Colab. God bless