Category Archives: Instrumental Music

Instrumental Music: Missing More Than Music by Danny Corbitt, Introduction

Posted on July 4, 2009 by Jay F Guin

Thanks to Tim Archer’s post of a few days ago, I’ve been reading Danny Corbitt’s Missing More Than Music: When Disputable Matters Eclipse Worship and Unity available from Amazon or as a free .pdf download. Corbitt is a former campus … Continue reading →

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Dialogue with Robert Prater: Robert’s Comment About Progressive Dialogue

Posted on June 6, 2009 by Jay F Guin

Several days ago, Robert posted a comment that I’ve been meaning to get to for a while. Rich, I would just continue to encourage you to stand for truth in a balanced and loving way and have no desire to … Continue reading →

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Instrumental Music: The Patristic Evidence and the Regulative Principle, Part 2

Posted on May 31, 2009 by Jay F Guin

How, then, do we explain the absence of instruments in the early church? And it is highly likely that the early church did not use instruments. My own view is that the early church took its form of worship from … Continue reading →

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Instrumental Music: The Patristic Evidence and the Regulative Principle, Part 1

Posted on May 30, 2009 by Jay F Guin

In contemporary Church of Christ thought, worshipping God with instrumental music is sinful because (a) it violates the Regulative Principle, that is, because it lacks authority in the scriptures, and (b) the history of the Christian church shows a uniform … Continue reading →

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Dialogue with Robert Prater: Baptism, Circumcision, Galatians, 1 John, and GraceConversation

Posted on April 13, 2009 by Jay F Guin

The question has been raised in private emails and comments here whether baptism might be a work. After all, circumcision, which is certainly a work in Paul’s vocabulary, is also passive. To answer this one, we need to get away … Continue reading →

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Dialogue with Robert Prater: What Is “Faith”? Part 4 (Baptism vs. Faith)

Posted on April 11, 2009 by Jay F Guin

Note to readers: I’m recaptioning the posts reflecting my interchange with Robert Prater, as we’ve gotten pretty far afield from the original theme. When members of the Churches of Christ speak of the faith-only heresy, they generally aren’t referring to … Continue reading →

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Dialogue with Robert Prater: What Is “Faith”? Part 3 (Baptism)

Posted on April 10, 2009 by Jay F Guin

Baptism Okay. Baptism is, oddly enough, where many in the Churches of Christ got things wrong in the last century. That and the Holy Spirit. We wanted to prove that baptism is essential for salvation. We argued, therefore, that it … Continue reading →

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Dialogue with Robert Prater: What Is “Faith”? Part 2 (James, Paul & the Spirit)

Posted on April 9, 2009 by Jay F Guin

So what about James? Let’s take a fresh look, beginning with his thesis sentence — (James 2:14) What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him? He … Continue reading →

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Dialogue with Robert Prater: What Is “Faith”? Part 1 (Toward a Definition)

Posted on April 6, 2009 by Jay F Guin

Robert Prater posed an important question — If you take such position that a person is saved/justifed/forgiven of sins on the basis of faith alone/only without its inclusion of further acts of obedience which demonstrate/define, etc. true “faith/belief” (i.e., confess, … Continue reading →

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Dialogue with Robert Prater: Robert’s Doctrine of Apostasy, Part 3 (God’s Patience)

Posted on April 5, 2009 by Jay F Guin

Robert next argues, Jay, what should be our posture toward those who, by their anti-biblical ideas, promote, encourage, or, at the very least condone, immoral acts or doctrinal errors? Should the blanket of “toleration” be thrown over them indefinitely? In … Continue reading →

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