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Category Archives: Grace
Instrumental Music and Nadab and Abihu: The covenant of the Law vs. the Covenant of the Heart
The hard line Churches of Christ, a cappella, believe that the Sunday morning worship service is the most important part of being a Christian. They believe they have found Christianity and all others have lost it. They base this idea … Continue reading
The Rules are Written on your Heart
There is a theory put out by the hard line Churches of Christ that Jesus gave the apostles all the rules for the work, worship and organization of the local congregation between his resurrection and his ascension. This is then … Continue reading
The Rude Guy Who Beeped at me in Traffic
A recent commenter to this blog wrote: The bible is perfect and complete (James 1:25), it was written for and applies to everyone forever (Acts 2:39-42), and Jesus is referred to as the Word incarnate and sent the word through … Continue reading
The Eastern Orthodox never believed in Total Depravity
Friday I was talking to a friend of mine, a pastor of an Assembly of God church nearby who has two master’s degrees, about John Calvin’s shenanigans in Geneva, Switzerland in the 1600s. He said N.T. Wright (who is an … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Command, Example and Necessary Inference, Faith and Works, Grace, Hell, History, Salvation
Tagged depravity, Eastern Orthodox, fall, Original sin, Orthodox, sin
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Eternal Suffering in Hell
When the subject of hell comes up one thinks of the wonderfully imaginative works of Hieronymous Bosch of skewered people being roasting over fires in hell by gleeful minions of the devil. But the actual passages in the Bible about … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Grace, Hell, Manipulation, Salvation, Uncategorized
Tagged fundamentalist, judgment, salvation, shame
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Judged by our Works
Recently I saw a statement on a Facebook friend’s status about how we will be judged on that great day by what we have done in our lives. He is a preacher for a hard line Church of Christ in … Continue reading
Posted in Faith and Works, Grace, Salvation
Tagged Church of Christ, Churches of Christ, ex-church of christ, faith, faith and works, faith only, works
12 Comments
Baptism of the Heart
The Apostle Paul, speaking to Jewish Christians in Rome at the time, appealed to their reason: Won’t non-Jews be accepted by God if they keep the Ten Commandments? If the Ten Commandments are written on their hearts, won’t they be … Continue reading
Posted in Baptism, Faith and Works, Grace, Salvation
Tagged baptism, Church of Christ, Churches of Christ
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Revenge as a Theme in hard line Churches of Christ
In the 1970s when I was in Florida College, a college affiliated with the Non-Institutional wing of the churches of Christ, I came across two young men who liked to get revenge. They were both studying to be preachers. One … Continue reading
Posted in Faith and Works, Grace, History, Psychology
Tagged Christian college, Church of Christ, Churches of Christ, condescension, denominationalism, revenge, shame
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Fundamentalists have shame-based families
John Bradshaw, a popular psychologist in the 1980s, came up with seven rules that fundamentalist shame based families live by. He should know, he grew up in a fundamentalist Catholic home. 1. The first rule is to control everything. If … Continue reading
Posted in Faith and Works, Grace, Manipulation, Psychology
Tagged blame, bradshaw, children, Church of Christ, Churches of Christ, condescension, discipline, evangelical family, fundamentalist family, judgment, lonely, obsessive, Respect, self-esteem, shame, sneer
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