There is a misconception that John Calvin is someone worthy of emulation.

By our uncritical pursuit of relevance we have actually courted irrelevance; by
our breathless chase after relevance without a matching commitment to
faithfulness, we have become not only unfaithful but irrelevant; by our
determined efforts to redefine ourselves in ways that are more compelling to the
modern world than are faithful to Christ, we have lost not only our identity but
our authority and our relevance. Our crying need is to be faithful as well as relevant.

~ Os Guinness

(gleaned from RZIM's Slice of Infinity, "The Most Progressive")