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Category Archives: Church of Christ Doctrinal Issues
Instrumental Music: An Experiment in Christian Dialogue
So it’s been a long, hard week. It’s been encouraging to have 50 or 60 comments a day — I mean, I remember when getting just one spam comment was cause for rejoicing! But, man, it’s hard to keep up … Continue reading
Posted in Instrumental Music, Uncategorized
Tagged All, Church of Christ Links, Instrumental music, Regulative Principle
46 Comments
Congregational Mergers and Autonomy: Thoughts on a Reader’s Question
In the last post of this series, a reader described how a proposed merger between a Church of Christ and an independent Christian Church had gone badly because many in the Church of Christ objected to the unification — even … Continue reading
Congregational Mergers and Autonomy: A Reader’s Question
I get emails — A reader wrote to ask this question. I’ve edited it with his permission to make it anonymous — Some time ago the local Christian church was left without a preacher and only one elder remained. They … Continue reading
Posted in Congregational Autonomy and Mergers, Uncategorized
Tagged All, church autonomy, Church of Christ Links
109 Comments
The Fork in the Road: Dialogue with Cougan: Answers to Questions
Cougan, The role of women is a difficult place to start because there are several predicates we have to cover before you can see where I’m coming from. For example, I don’t think you can properly interpret 1 Tim 2:11-15 … Continue reading
Posted in Fork in the Road, Uncategorized
Tagged All, Church of Christ Links, complimentarianism, egalitarianism, legalism, patternism, women's roles
39 Comments
The Fork in the Road: The Perfectibility of the Intellect
There are many unstated assumptions that divide the progressive and conservative camps in the Churches of Christ. One of these is the conservative assumption that while our moral nature is fallen and so not capable of perfection, our intellect is … Continue reading
Posted in Fork in the Road, Uncategorized
Tagged All, Christian Courier, Church of Christ Links
176 Comments
The Fork in the Road: On Building Fences (with an extra random thought or two)
I stumbled across a very intriguing website — the Pleasant Valley Church of Christ site. Now, I’m sure I’m not the first to made this association, but we have to get this out of the way before we can go … Continue reading
Posted in Fork in the Road, Uncategorized
Tagged All, Church of Christ Links, Pleasant Valley Church of Christ
19 Comments
The Fork in the Road: The Path to Safety
A reader asked, It would seem to me that we should try to worship, etc. as closely as possible to the way they did in the NT. We would know that that was right. Why take a chance on something … Continue reading
The Fork in the Road: Definitions: “Faith,” Part 2
In the last post of this series, I pointed out how the conservative Church of Christ preachers often treat “faith” as including a comprehensive doctrinal system, rather than simply faith in Jesus. Wayne Jackson, in the Christian Courier, gave a … Continue reading
The Fork in the Road: Definitions: “Faith,” Part 1
One of the most important differences between conservative and progressive Church of Christ theology is our different use of some key words. For example, to a progressive, New Testament references to “faith” are references to faith in Jesus. To a … Continue reading
The Fork in the Road: “Will Worship”
When we in the Churches of Christ disagree over how to conduct the Sunday assembly, at some point someone will inevitably accuse the other side of “will worship.” And will-worship is sin. The assumption is that “will worship” means worshiping … Continue reading
