Predestination

When I was in college I spent a lot of time debating. One running joke was that the one debate topic you do not "run" was to propose that you “bring back prohibition.” In the final round of the national tournament one year, two of my good friends proposed the idea of “bringing back prohibition.” The homiletical equivalent is to argue about predestination. That is one area that we also do not want to argue about.

I preached last week on predestination. That is not something Christians or Presbyterians like to talk about. We would rather avoid it. But its also the subject that many people most closely associated with Presbyterians. So we have to think about what this topic means to us, what our tradition teaches about it and what we believe about it.