I heard Sam Harris defend his new book, The Moral Landscape, last night on BookTV.Very Interesting. I’ll have to get a copy and read it. From what I could tell, he has borrowed liberally from the biblical Christian perspective, but calls his method scientific. We all know that he rejects religion, but then again...
The Reforming Synod of 1679-80 attempted to address the spiritual downgrade that occurred in the churches following the Half-Way Covenant debacle. Pastors and people began to believe that they were undergoing divine judgment as a result of the increasing faithlessness in the churches. “The sense of alarm regarding the state of New England engendered...
The Practice of Christianity in the Local Church The practice of Christianity apart from a proper theological foundation, firmly rooted in the Word of God written, builds on uncertain ground. The success of Christ’s Church depends upon the clear, explicit articulation of the historic biblical gospel. God’s Governance, Not Man’s Congregationalism is often misunderstood...
Paedobaptism & Paedocommunion What follows is a discussion on the Reformed Congregationalist List about padeobaptism (infant baptism) and credobaptism (believers’ baptism), which brought up paedocommunion during the month of October, 2003. The following is a reconstruction of that conversation with corrections of spelling, etc. It began with the moderator’s description of a man whom...
The concern here is not the noun issues, but the verb. The action of issuing suggests going, coming, or flowing out. Synonyms are egress and emergence. Think of issuing orders. Think of one’s children as one’s issue. To get at the root meaning of the word it may be helpful to consider an archaic...
Informal Christianity What it isn’t… It is not a church, but is the personal, internal, subjective faith that identifies church members as belonging to Jesus Christ. It is not formless, but conforms to the biblical reality described in Scripture. Its discipline is not strict and legalistic, but is free and gracious. Its principles are...
Half-Asked Questions, Half Assessed Answers Classical Congregationalism had barely been hatched when its demise began. Expectations for church membership had always been strict among Congregational churches, in keeping with Christ’s demands upon the faithful. The high-water mark had been set by the Cambridge Declaration (1649), which stated: The doors of Christ’s churches on earth...
The church is not a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. The IRS does not define a church, God does. The church is the people of God. The church exists in and through Jesus Christ, and so is a distinctive New Testament reality. At the same time it is continuous with Israel, the seed of Abraham and...
I just finished reading “Why Men Hate Going to Church.” Murrow’s book was very hopeful, until I finished it. He has put his finger on a real problem — the feminization of Christianity. But the problem is even wider, it includes the feminization of Western Culture. It is true that biblical Christianity is not...
for Christian Churches and Nonprofits ©2004 Phillip A. Ross John Carver has developed an excellent corporate board model that he has trademarked as Policy Governance® (www.policygovernance.com). The model is brilliant and Carver applies it to every sort of board—governmental, private, corporate and religious. The model is to be commended to all but one type...
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