Author Archives: Jay F Guin

About Jay F Guin

My name is Jay Guin, and I’m a retired elder. I wrote The Holy Spirit and Revolutionary Grace about 18 years ago. I’ve spoken at the Pepperdine, Lipscomb, ACU, Harding, and Tulsa lectureships and at ElderLink. My wife’s name is Denise, and I have four sons, Chris, Jonathan, Tyler, and Philip. I have two grandchildren. And I practice law.

Brother Fairasee

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Jay F Guin

Thanks to Bob West, creator of Theophilus. By the way, Edward Fudge notes that Bob West is producing a comic-strip style set of serial Bible stories that he is offering to email as each new strip comes out. The series is … Continue reading →

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A Lover’s Quarrel: More Responsibly Biblical

Posted on January 19, 2009 by Jay F Guin

Garrett’s seventh wish for the Churches of Christ is — Let us become more responsibly biblical. We have supposed that the New Testament produced the church, when in fact it was the church that produced the New Testament. … The … Continue reading →

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One Church

Posted on January 19, 2009 by Jay F Guin

Thomas Campbell’s “Declaration and Address” was written in 1809. This is one of the founding documents of the Restoration Movement, written for the purpose of calling people away from division and sectarianism to join in a common communion, a single … Continue reading →

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10 Stupid Things that Keep a Church from Growing

Posted on January 18, 2009 by Jay F Guin

I read a review of this book — not yet released — and thought the partial list offered in the review worth mentioning — *  “Trying to do it all.” A comical quote at the bottom of the chapter page cleverly … Continue reading →

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A Little Help?!

Posted on January 18, 2009 by Jay F Guin

Okay, I’ve come to this self-realization. I need help.  You see, I just don’t have the patience to maintain this website like I should. I mean, I just updated my indexing system going back to November. I’ve been meaning to … Continue reading →

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Woohoo! One In Jesus makes top 10 Church of Christ blogs

Posted on January 17, 2009 by Jay F Guin

Over at Kingdom Living, Matt Dabbs has used the Alexa service to rank the 25 most popular Church of Christ blogs (and blog-like sites). Not surprisingly, the top 3 are Al Maxey, Edward Fudge, and the late Cecil Hook. Astonishingly, … Continue reading →

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A Lover’s Quarrel: Radical Congregationalism

Posted on January 16, 2009 by Jay F Guin

Garrett’s sixth wish is — Let us reject our radical congregationalism and become more responsibly organized for the tasks before us. No local church, nor group of area churches, can do what the church as a whole can do. We … Continue reading →

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Why I Do This

Posted on January 16, 2009 by Jay F Guin

I get emails — Jay,  In your “2008 Update” posting you included the following:  “And (do you believe it?) David Graves will be teaching a class on my The Holy Spirit and Revolutionary Grace at the Union Valley Church of … Continue reading →

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Church Planting

Posted on January 16, 2009 by Jay F Guin

Over at his site Who Told You That, Dell Kimberly has asked for reader input for what I think is a critically important question: How can an established church act like a church plant?  This is the most unusual post … Continue reading →

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Faith Lessons by Ray Vander Laan: Misguided Faith, Part 4

Posted on January 15, 2009 by Jay F Guin

Dwayne Phillips asked in a comment to Part 3 of this series, I enjoy reading your blog. This entry, however, sounds much like what I heard years ago from people who refused to say the pledge of allegiance and who … Continue reading →

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