stakes in the real debate are joy and laughter. But the friends of these truths sometimes forget these ramifications as often as the adversaries of these truths do. We have many Christians who embrace the truth about predestination simply because it still makes other people mad, and it provides them with the opportunity to move on to other issues which make other people mad. Soon the regulative principle is wound tight around their axle; they are so full of scruples that they are standing in the