The vacuum extends to the local congregations, with a generation of leaders lost. Ian Fair wrote of this in his book on leadership in the Kingdom of God. I had noticed this as early as the 1970’s – and have seen it over and over. I blogged about it at http://committedtotruth.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/leadership-12a-more-on-the-family/.

Basically, my thesis is that without a strong male leader in a boy’s life in his formative years, he will not develop into a strong leader himself – and a generation of boys’ fathers were away fighting in WWII. It was not until the boomers began to come of age that another group of leaders emerged, but these are the ones who, in the 60’s & 70’s broke with the authoritarian approaches of the past (in some good ways as well as some that are not so good).

Jerry

Alexander Campbell wrote a series of articles in his periodical called the “Search for the Ancient Order” in which he argued for a return to the order of worship and form of church organization found in the New Testament. However, he explicitly stated that these teachings should be tests of fellowship.

Did you mean to say that Campbell “explicitly stated that these thesching should not be texts of fellowship?

Thanks. Correction made.

I would recommend you consider the points raised in “The Empty Church: The Suicide of Liberal Christianity.” Thomas C. Reeves, a member of a major Protestant denomination, chronicles the demise of his and other liberal groups.

Except for a vague ecumenical aspiration, and a shared disdain for traditional Church of Christism, I find very little around which my Progressive friends can coalesce. You message almost seems to be, “You don’t believe very much, and we don’t believe very much, so why don’t we all get together and share our lack of convictions together.”

Best wishes to you and yours in the coming year,

Greg

The same logical analysis proves that the Church and Ribi Yehoshua ha-Mashiakhs followers Netzarim were two different movements that were always separated.
The historical Ribi Yehoshua didn’t not teach about building an antinomian Church.

Anders Branderud