John Calvin is Important for Today!

It is my belief that John Calvin important today?  The wonderful theologian Joel Beeke has some solid ideas about what Calvin taught and why he deserves our continued remembrance in all parts of the church of Jesus Christ?  Beeke proclaimes::

◦Calvin the historian, who unfolded redemptive history for us

◦Calvin the polemicist, who combated error and heresy on every hand

◦Calvin the pilgrim, who longed for home with eschatological hope

◦Calvin the traditionalist, who respected tradition so long as it was biblical

◦Calvin the catechist, who stressed the need to catechize children

◦Calvin the deacon, who showed sympathy to the poor

◦Calvin the vocationalist, who developed a sense of the sacredness of work

◦Calvin the law-promoter, who taught the law as a rule of life for believers

◦Calvin the author, who promoted God’s kingdom through scores of writings on an astonishing number of subjects

( from Joel Beeke’s great work, Calvin for Today)