As we grill or enjoy the sun or just sit down and do nothing, just remember to be grateful for the country we live in, the cost of the people who fought to ensure freedoms we enjoy today and look further back at a God who paid the ultimate price so that people could be eternally free. That’s the real memorial right there. Enjoy.
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The Christian Carnival is up at Parableman and he’s also looking for hosts for upcoming Carnivals. I would love to do it again but I’ve been slammed with projects recently.
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I’ve tried to highlight certain assumptions: (1) the Church is made up of people; (2)that the Church could only come about after certain historical requirements were in place; and (3) that the Church’s leadership is divine (in other words: God is the church’s leader). Following those assumptions (and an unmentioned fourth) I progressed to highlighting the Goal of the Church summed up in glorifying God by glorifying Christ. Such a broad definition leaves the most vague of us floating helplessly through a foamy sky of ambiguous vapor. Therefore, I want to spend some time looking at how that purpose is evidenced by the overarching Work of the Church.
Tags: New Testament, redemptive history, the gospel, the holy spirit
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Steven Curtis Chapman’s daughter was killed Wednesday night in an accident in their driveway. Video he filmed some time ago (which references the little girl who was killed here with lyrics here).
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Do me a favor, go to this link and add yourself to the competition. In so doing, I get an extra submission my way and you get a chance to win as well. Of course, this will do nothing for you if you’re not particularly into theological books but that’s okay. You can send me a book as a “thank you” for kicking you to the competition.
It’s Another Tim Challies Crazy Monergism.Com Book Give-Away.
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With the tri-fold assumptions in place: (1) the Church is made up of people; (2)that the Church could only come about after certain historical requirements were in place; and (3) that the Church’s leadership is divine (in other words: God is the church’s leader), we can safely move on to the purpose, or goal, of the Church. An ambitious goal for one post but that’s what you can expect from a probable-heretic.
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“Wow, Saul really did Bad Stuff to David. Hunting him. Throwing a spear at him. Wanting to kill him.”
“Yes, Sy: Saul was a bad king. A very jealous man.”
“But at least, in the end he turned good and started telling everybody about Jesus.”
“What? No, Saul never did that, Sy.”
“But, Don’t you remember? Saul–he became Paul! And he preached about God.”
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Why even have assumptions anyway? I mean, why can’t I simply study The Church without any assumptions whatsoever, like a theological tabula rasa?
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In my last post there was an assumption which I didn’t bother bringing attention to but which colored the entire post. That being that New Testament Principles in the Church is a worthy stake to claim. With two thousand years of Church history that sort of assumption should raise a couple of serious questions.
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Congregational and Bible Churches have long raised a banner that lays claim to New Testament Principles. Disagreeing vehemently with their banners, hierarchal churches within the single pastor systems have taken to questioning Congregational reasoning and shaken sympathetic pastoral heads. Over all this the Roman Catholic Church has pointed to the shaky claims of the entire Protestant movement, stuck its thumbs in its theological breeches and scoffed. But I have to ask: who is right? What does a church established on New Testament principles actually look like?
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