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Tending to Eden: Chapter Five, Creating Enterprise
We are continuing to read through Tending to Eden by Scott C. Sabin. I’ve skipped chapter four. It’s a great chapter, but you’re just going to have to buy the book. Buy some for your church’s library while you’re at … Continue reading
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An Open Letter to the Leadership of the CFTF Lectures
To: [email protected] Subject: Lectureship Question for Spring church of Christ Brothers in Christ, I’ve been deeply disappointed by the recent Profiles in Apostasy lectures and believe they reflect a seriously false understanding of the scriptures that is doing great harm … Continue reading
The Lord’s Supper: Further from the Early Church
An excellent source book on early church practice is Everett Ferguson’s Early Christians Speak, vol. 1. (The original appears to be out of print, although Early Christians Speak – Vol. 2 can still be had. Most Church of Christ libraries … Continue reading
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Tending to Eden: Chapter Three, Reversing the Cycle
We are continuing to read through Tending to Eden by Scott C. Sabin. He describes a meeting with a group of Haitians that Plant With Purpose intended to serve — The meeting convened and moved past pleasantries to a series … Continue reading
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Tending to Eden: Chapter Two, A Vicious Cycle
We are continuing to read through Tending to Eden by Scott C. Sabin. In chapter two, Sabin begins to explain the nature of poverty in Haiti. Of course, the book was written well before the earthquake, and so it’s a … Continue reading
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Tending to Eden: Chapter One, Discovering God’s Heart for the World
We are continuing to read through Tending to Eden by Scott C. Sabin. In chapter one, he begins to build the scriptural case for how best to do missions. (Isa 58:6-7) “Is not this the kind of fasting I have … Continue reading
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Profiles in Apostasy, Further Thoughts
I’m not planning to watch the videos. I might change my mind, but I know watching would make me angry, and being angry is not good for me. In fact, I’m not sure I’m doing such a good job of … Continue reading
The Lord’s Supper: The Early Church
I offer some material from the uninspired writings of early Christians to prove that I’m not crazy — not to establish a theology of the Lord’s Supper. In fact, we in the Churches of Christ are bad to reach into … Continue reading
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Profiles in Apostasy
As many are aware, the Contending for the Faith Lectures held recently were called “Profiles in Apostasy #1.” The speakers took on a number of books from the more progressive Churches of Christ — evidently asserting the damnation of the … Continue reading
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
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