by Ed van Ouwerkerk, December 2024

Here is the link to the confessional statement of the Gospel Coalition.

Preamble
In the preamble of the Gospel Coalition website, this is the first statement "We are a fellowship of evangelical churches in the Reformed tradition deeply committed to renewing our faith in the gospel of Christ and to reforming our ministry practices to conform fully to the Scriptures."
Evangelical churches have merely been established as a reaction on Reformed tradition. Therefore, stating that there are "evangelical churches in the Reformed tradition" is a contradictio in terminis. There are also no "evangelical churches in the Roman Catholic tradition".
I see this preamble statement as a way to "infiltrate" evangelical churches with traditional Reformed doctrine. They do that under the flag of neo-Calvinism, hoping that people embrace the "neo-part" although there is more "old-part", reintroduced and coated with good-looking varnish.

Confessional statement

• Election - predestination
  The first statement is "We believe that from all eternity God determined in grace to save a great multitude of guilty sinners from every tribe and language and people and nation, and to this end foreknew them and chose them." A great multitude? I thought God has determined that all people can be saved.
  The second statement is "In love God commands and implores all people to repent and believe, having set his saving love on those he has chosen and having ordained Christ to be their Redeemer."  God has set his saving love on those he has chosen? So, there are also people who are not chosen, or excluded?
• Amillennialist position
  This statement is found "The kingdom of God, already present but not fully realized, is the exercise of God’s sovereignty in the world toward the eventual redemption of all creation." The Kingdom of God is not already present. It will be established after Jesus second advent to the earth. In the document there is nothing written about the Rapture nor about the Marriage of the Lamb. So this organization is not believing in pre-millenial event to rescue believers from the wrath of God in the Tribulation. So, the Gospel Coalition takes the amillennial position in escatology.
• Replacement theology
  This statement is found "We believe that God’s new covenant people have already come to the heavenly Jerusalem; they are already seated with Christ in the heavenlies." No distiction is found between the Church and Israel. The heavenly Jerusalem is assumed to have come, although the New Jerusalem will come down at the end of the 1000 year Millennial Kingdom, right before all saints will enter into eternity (Revelation 21).
  Nothing is said about the rescue of all Jews at Jesus' second advent, as the Apostle Paul prophesied "²⁵I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in, ²⁶and in this way all Israel will be saved. As it is written:“The deliverer will come from Zion;he will turn godlessness away from Jacob (Romans 11:25-26 NIV)". All Israel will be saved, as a nation. That means all Jews that are alive at that time will be saved.
• Baptism
  The statement says that baptism is connected with entrance into the new covenant community and devinely ordained to the church. There is no biblical evidence for this. Baptism is open to all believers, and not solely for churches to administer.
  The Confessional Statement does not mention infant baptism. But in practice infant baptism is default in Calvinist churches. Infant baptism is not supported by the Bible.
• Eschatology
  The Confessional Statement mentions that the Lord Jesus Christ will return with his holy angels. Look at 1 Thessalonians 3:13. There, we read "...when our Lord Jesus comes with all his holy ones (NIV)" or "....at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints (NKJV)". This means that not only angels will come down from heaven, but all saints (believers) will come to earth with Jesus. It also means that the Gospel Coalition denies the doctrine of the Rapture.

Proponents of neo-Calvinism, that I know of
Most of them are Calvinists, some are Arminianists.

• Don Carson (US)
• Tim Keller (US, deceased) 
• John Piper (US)
• R.C. Sproul (US, deceased)
• Justin Peters (US)
• David Platt (US)
• Joni Eareckson Tada (US)
• Rick Warren (US)
• Paul Washer (US)
• John MacArthur (US)
• Charles Spurgeon (UK, deceased)
• J.I. Packer (Canada, deceased)
• Jacob Folkerts (NL)
• and many more