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Quail Springs Church of Christ “Disfellowshipped”: A Proposal for Reclaiming Unity

Posted on February 15, 2008 by Jay F Guin

David Guin commented, But I think [the churches] do need to consider how to clarify that the ad-buyers spoke falsely when claiming to speak for them. Perhaps a joint service with Quail Springs as a demonstration of shared love for … Continue reading →

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Searching for The Third Way: Once Saved, Always Saved, Part 3

Posted on February 14, 2008 by Jay F Guin

[The following shares some material from a similar lesson under Amazing Grace in the Index, but has some new material.] The two-kinds-of-falling-away mistake Some teach two levels of falling away – (1) a temporary, easily fixed falling away where you … Continue reading →

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Searching for The Third Way: Once Saved, Always Saved, Part 2

Posted on February 14, 2008 by Jay F Guin

As I mentioned in the last post on this topic, I think Hebrews provides the solution to the great Calvinism vs. Arminianism debate regarding once saved, always saved. After all, Hebrews contains many of the great verses promising confidence and … Continue reading →

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Amazing Grace: Our Heritage of Wonderful Slogans

Posted on February 13, 2008 by Jay F Guin

We don’t teach Restoration Movement history as much or as well as we should. For purposes of this series of lessons, I thought it might be helpful to cover a small but very important part of our heritage — one … Continue reading →

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The Humility Bubble Lesson (expanded)

Posted on February 13, 2008 by Jay F Guin

This is a Sunday School class I’ve taught that explains how our humility affects our views on grace. The Humility Bubble Lesson.pdf

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Amazing Grace: Does God Forgive Doctrinal Error? (expanded)

Posted on February 13, 2008 by Jay F Guin

This is the big one–the very question that causes the Churches of Christ to repeatedly divide over countless issues. Introduction Just to give a flavor of the tragedies caused by our unrelenting insistence on dividing over every disagreement at all, … Continue reading →

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Quail Springs Church of Christ “Disfellowshipped”: The Best Revenge

Posted on February 13, 2008 by Jay F Guin

Many of us have been distressed by the ad placed by three ministers “disfellowshipping” the Quail Springs minister for being the preacher of a congregation that’s added an instrumental service. Some have suggested that the right-thinking Churches of Christ should … Continue reading →

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Leading Change for Elders, Part 2

Posted on February 12, 2008 by Jay F Guin

Continuing our listing of ways to avoid splitting your church when you lead them to make a major change — * Lack of political capital. Most elderships don’t think in political terms. Some would get upset at my using the … Continue reading →

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Searching for The Third Way: Once Saved, Always Saved, Part 1

Posted on February 11, 2008 by Jay F Guin

In the first post of this series, I mentioned the classic conundrum of Calvinism vs. Arminianism as regards whether Christians can fall from grace. It’s a long-standing argument, and both sides are quite insistent on the subject. The Churches of … Continue reading →

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Quail Springs Minister “Disfellowshipped”

Posted on February 10, 2008 by Jay F Guin

The main post is up now. I’ve left this one on the site to make the comments available.

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