Thread by @timkellernyc

With respect, you are misinterpreting me, @Phil_Johnson_. I hope this will clarify. If I am understanding you (and Im not sure I am) you seem to be reading the tweets as claiming that I personally do not tell people that they are sinning. But that can't be maintained in light 1/5

https://twitter.com/Phil_Johnson_/status/1327088448335867904

...of the over 1,400 sermons I have out there in one form or another. Anyone listening to them or reading them would see that I speak to listeners about their sin and about God’s wrath consistently. This interesting article talks about this - desiringgod.org/articles/is-ti…. 2/5

So I couldn’t possibly have meant what you assert--that no one should ever tell another person they are sinning. The saying--that no one ever learned they were a sinner by being told--was a paraphrase of something I read in a John Newton letter years ago. As a Calvinist...3/5

-Newton believed that telling people they're lost sinners has never saved anyone unless it is accompanied by the work of the Holy Spirit as well. So from the Reformed point of view-the saying is literally true. Just telling people they are sinners is necessary but insufficient. 4

... And as a Calvinist myself, I believe this too. I hope this helps clarifies and thanks for interacting.