Reddit mentions of Case for Progressive Dispensationalism, The

I used to take a perspective much like your church mostly because I had never really attended a church that was not dispensationalist. But I started looking at both sides. The thing is, I never found a Covenant argument that could convince me of their views of Israel and the Church but Dispensational arguments seemed to be rather lacking in explaining how the church benefits from the Covenants in the Old Testament, not to mention the whole church is just a parenthesis in God's program for Israel just does not have any Biblical backing.

Lately, I have been leaning more towards Progressive Dispensationalism. It still views Israel and the church as separate and God still having future plans for Israel, but sees a lot more continuity and unity of purpose in God's plan throughout history, allowing the church to benefit from covenants made solely with Israel.

It should be noted that some people claim that this system of theology is only rooted in a desire for evangelical ecumenism. Although many in Covenant Theology will say that this system is a little more acceptable than traditional Dispensationalism, a lot of traditional Dispys will be angrier with you than they are with traditional Covenant Theology if you take this view. And you will still see a little too much future fulfillment of prophecies going on for Amills to fully embrace you, so for the moment it sort of puts you on an island, but between PDism and New Covenant Theology (tends to be a little more accepting of PDism) that island is rapidly growing.

I would recommend reading up on all of the positions if you can, because I find that all of them tend to misrepresent the others, but I just wanted to point out that there is a middle ground which is not necessarily just a compromiser position.