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Tag Archives: Church of Christ Links
Dialogue with Robert Prater, Part 6
As before, I’ve edited out portions of Robert’s comment from yesterday, not out of lack of respect, but to simplify the reading. And I’m not going to respond to arguments I’ve already responded to. And this discussion is not about … Continue reading
Posted in Grace, Instrumental Music, Uncategorized
Tagged All, Church of Christ Links, Instrumental music
15 Comments
How to Argue Like a Christian: Unsupported Accusations
Many of our authors make startling accusations against their opponents without giving any basis for the charge — and certainly nothing that allows their facts to be checked. Sometimes the charges are true. Sometimes they are not. But you just … Continue reading
Dialogue with Robert Prater, Part 5
I’ve edited several of Robert’s paragraphs from his comment posted earlier today. This is no disrespect. Rather, I just don’t want to unduly test the readers’ patience. The full text of his comment is still posted. <snipped introduction> First of … Continue reading
Posted in Grace, Instrumental Music, Uncategorized
Tagged All, Church of Christ Links, false doctrine, Instrumental music
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How to Argue Like a Christian: Abusing the Language
Another reason that we in the Churches of Christ have trouble working things out amongst ourselves is our abuse of the language. In fact, a stranger to our publications would often be mystified by our use of words. Liberal For … Continue reading
Dialogue with Robert Prater, Part 4
I’m stating my point a different way this time, as it’s obvious that Robert is not hearing what I’m trying to say. I earlier wrote a post pointing out that it is inadequate for those in the conservative Churches of … Continue reading
Posted in Grace, Instrumental Music, Uncategorized
Tagged All, Church of Christ Links, Instrumental music
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How to Argue Like a Christian: Slander, gossip, and swimming pools
This story is told by a campus minister friend of mine. In anticipation of fall semester, the minister wrote congregations around the state inviting students coming to attend the University of Alabama to participate in his student ministry. He pointed … Continue reading
Posted in How to Argue Like a Christian, Uncategorized
Tagged All, Church of Christ Links
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Renewing Our Worship: Epilogue
In a few of the earlier posts in this series, I mentioned the 30-hour fast our teens had undertaken to help children dying from starvation. They made streamers of 26,000 paperchains — the number of children dying each day from … Continue reading
Posted in Renewing Our Worship, Uncategorized
Tagged All, Church of Christ Links, fasting, world poverty, worship
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How to Argue Like a Christian: Over-generalizing and Not Listening
It’s awfully easy to find in any group of people a few outliers — people identified with the group who aren’t really representative of the group. I mean, no group of human beings is free of sin or foolishness, and … Continue reading
The Blue Parakeet: The Right Use of Tradition
McKnight continues explaining the right way to read the scriptures. The way of returning to retrieve it all is not the biblical way. The biblical way is the ongoing adoption of the past and adaptation to new conditions and to … Continue reading
Posted in Blue Parakeet, The Blue Parakeet, Uncategorized
Tagged All, Biblical interpretation, Blue Parakeet, Church of Christ Links, Hermeneutics, Restoration Movement, Scot Mcknight
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How to Argue Like a Christian: Elision (Skipping Steps) (and Part 1 of the Dialogue with Robert Prater)
To “elide” is to omit something. We Southerners tend to elide our trailing g’s — that is, our trailin’ g’s. And some of our thought leaders have a habit of eliding critical steps in their argumentation. An example is Kerry … Continue reading
