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At the risk of undoing all the good will I tried to create with my Arminocalvinist spectrum<\/a> I want to speak briefly today about prayer. Now, to my Arminian friends please don\u2019t hear me wrongly. For this blog post to work we have to accept a bit of a stereotype on both ends of the spectrum.<\/p>\n

For it was a tweet today from Driscoll that reminded me of something and made me think. Driscoll said<\/a> \u201cEvery Christian who prays is functionally a Calvinist who believes in the sovereignty of God.\u201d<\/strong> Now, it is easy to read a tweet like that and immediately think of the Arminian. It is not the first time that someone has said that every Christian is a Calvinist on their knees. Spurgeon famously spoke about this very idea<\/a> and claimed that there was no such thing as a truly Arminian prayer.<\/p>\n

But that wasn\u2019t what struck me about Driscoll\u2019s quote. I instead was thinking about the opposite. \u201cA Christian who does not pray is functionally an Arminian who does not believe in the sovereignty of God<\/strong>\u201d or perhaps \u201cwho believes that it is down to man to do everything<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, I know that most Arminians do<\/em> believe in God\u2019s sovereignty. But, my question for myself and for you reading this is simply this, do I pray like a Calvinist should? I do not mean like a Calvinist is rumored to pray\u2026ie not at all because he just leaves everything to the sovereignty of God. No, I mean, do I pray like I really believe that God is in control of the universe and that he has committed himself to answering prayer, and therefore my prayers are not just bouncing off the ceiling?<\/strong> Do I pray like I believe my prayers can make a difference? Do I pray like I actually expect God to answer them and act?<\/p>\n

Maybe I should pray like a reformed charismatic should<\/strong>. In other words with great confidence in the power, authority, and degree of influence that God has over the world, married to great confidence that he hasn\u2019t changed and he is therefore willing, able, and ready to act<\/strong>. \u00a0In contrast to this, could it be that over our lives, our churches, it could be written \u201cAnd he did not do many mighty works there, because of their unbelief.<\/strong>\u201d (Matthew 13:58). \u00a0May those words not be true of us!<\/p>\n

Oh God, please teach us to pray. Teach me to pray. Stretch forth your hand to stir us again and to save!<\/p>\n

Am I an Arminian on my knees? And when I get up on my feet again, do I go forth about my day not actively pursuing opportunities to serve God? Surely I should work for Jesus as though I was an Arminian, though knowing that it is God who gives the fruit?<\/p>\n

So in contradiction to my title, shouldn\u2019t we, as the saying goes, be a Calvinist on our knees and an Arminian on our feet<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"