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Comment on Misreading the New Testament by Larry Bayer

Larry Bayer — Thu, 23 May 2013 21:22:00 +0000

What prayer is essential to our salvation?

Comment on Misreading the New Testament by K. Rex Butts

K. Rex Butts — Thu, 23 May 2013 18:48:40 +0000

And remember that instrumental worship in this post is only an illustrative example. The primary issue I am addressing is the way Christians read the New Testament.

Comment on Misreading the New Testament by K. Rex Butts

K. Rex Butts — Thu, 23 May 2013 18:34:00 +0000

With all due respect, I think it is quite presumptuous of you to know how I interpret. There are a lot of things that both the Eastern and Western traditions were “resolutely” but that in no ways implies that such traditions were meant to become a fixed universal practice. As for creating “schism within a schism within a schism”… Schisms are always a two-way street.

Comment on Misreading the New Testament by benmarston

benmarston — Thu, 23 May 2013 18:20:05 +0000

Until the Great schism both East and West were resolutely a capella. Instruments distract the nous by the senses and are hostile thereby to the depths of prayer that is the deep apophatic Stillness. A capella allows all Christaons of whatever depth to share worship. Instruments have a strong tendency to war against the deep and divinizing prayer that is essential to our salvation. Since you have not found your way into the Stillness you interpret blindly, and are forging another schism within a schism within a schism.
The Lord love you and have mercy on us.

Comment on Misreading the New Testament by K. Rex Butts

K. Rex Butts — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:51:22 +0000

The Orthodox Church tradition may have always been a cappella but the wider “Christian” tradition which begins as an extension of Jewish tradition has not. Furthermore, you assume a static form of tradition which is not there. While my knowledge of the Orthodox tradition is minimal, I do know that where it becomes static is actually a progression from where Christian tradition begins.

Comment on Misreading the New Testament by benmarston

benmarston — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:32:32 +0000

The Christain Tradition has always been a capella; and knowing that saves us from all private interpretation- theirs and yours and all the other 30 thousand schools of private interpretation out there in the every man is his own pope chaos.

Comment on Misreading the New Testament by jmar198013

jmar198013 — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:05:01 +0000

The most interesting thing to me about the passages in Ephesians and Colossians that are our go-tos for a capella hymnody is that if you look at them in context, they aren’t referring to a worship assembly at all.

Comment on The Silence of Scripture or Freedom in Christ? by Misreading the New Testament | Kingdom Seeking

Misreading the New Testament | Kingdom Seeking — Thu, 23 May 2013 14:39:15 +0000

[…] the binding nature of silence among scripture which I have already written about in a post called The Silence of Scripture or Freedom in Christ?. But another assumption, perhaps the biggest, is that the New Testament is to be read as though […]

Comment on As New Creation by Patsy Wilkinson

Patsy Wilkinson — Tue, 21 May 2013 09:40:47 +0000

Wolters has done a terrific job of explaining how Christians are to relate to all of the created world in this brief treatise. In a time in which Christians in America lack a clear vision of their place in and with society, many have succumbed to the belief that that some areas are less important and less holy than others. Having forced life into a dichotomy of “secular” and “sacred” activities, Christendom has lost its sense of the inherent value and goodness of life outside the walls of their Sunday School classroom. With more and more Christians abandoning their posts and ceasing to believe in the inherent goodness of culture and society, it is no wonder that the machinery of soceity has come to a grinding and nauseating halt. The air is ripe for believers to rediscover the truth about God’s love and plans for the redemption of all of life and to realize that the myth of the sacred/secular dichotomy is nothing more than the ancient, but everpresent, heresy of Gnosticism which has always plaugud the church (and no doubt always will til Christ comes back).

Comment on The Church, Living Artwork by As New Creation | Kingdom Seeking

As New Creation | Kingdom Seeking — Tue, 21 May 2013 04:11:17 +0000

[…] artwork” (NJB) or “God’s handiwork” (which you can read more about here). Of course, we’re not perfect representations but if we are following Jesus and living by […]