The Attack

Freddie Gage on April 24, 2000 takes a swipe at Calvinism in the SBC

"While affirming he is an "inerrantist with a capital I," that is not enough to ensure an emphasis on evangelism, he said. "In the 21st century, Southern Baptists will have to deal with dead orthodoxy and five-point Calvinism. There is not a nickel's worth of difference between liberalism, five-point Calvinism and dead orthodoxy. They are all enemies of soul-winning." 

Read it from the Baptist Standard here http://www.baptiststandard.com/2000/4_24/pages/baptisms_gage.html

The Defense

From a 19th Century Church Growth Expert - Charles Spurgeon

"I have my own Private opinion that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him crucified, unless we preach what nowadays is called Calvinism. It is a nickname to call it Calvinism; Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else. I do not believe we can preach the gospel, if we do not preach justification by faith, without works; nor unless we preach the sovereignty of God in His dispensation of grace; nor unless we exalt the electing, unchangeable, eternal, immutable, conquering love of Jehovah; nor do I think we can preach the gospel, unless we base it upon the special and particular redemption of His elect and chosen people which Christ wrought out upon the cross; nor can I comprehend a gospel which lets saints fall away after they are called, and suffers the children of God to be burned in the fires of damnation after having once believed in Jesus. Such a gospel I abhor."  .....from Spurgeon's sermon entitled "A Defense of Calvinism"