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Comment on The Gospel, Short and Sweet. by Royce

Royce — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:40:50 +0000

Thanks Bill. I miss you guys very much.

Comment on The Gospel, Short and Sweet. by Bill Hester

Bill Hester — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:31:19 +0000

Royce, you have such a gift ! AND, we miss your leadership and comments on Wed. morn. please attend anytime you can ! Proud to call you a brother and friend ! !

Comment on Why do bad things happen to good, godly people? by Mary Taylor

Mary Taylor — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:02:18 +0000

I so enjoyed your teaching and sharing of the word. I totally agree with you, that just because we are Christians that we will not suffer. We were born in a sin cursed world and may suffer many affections as God’s word tells us so in Psalms. Many false preachers today just preach about how wonderful life is and how we will prosper–name it and claim it.!!! Will I can say I have had many difficult times in my life and will continue to struggle with problems,sufferings,sickness,pain and many more things before God calls me home but I don’t intend to give up until this race is over. I have read the word, believe every word of it and know the end as spoken by in Revelations of the saints being in heaven with our Lord Jesus Christ forevermore when this old world will be destroyed. I know that I know God in His fullness and cling to the Rock of Ages until He comes for me or takes me to be raised first from the ground to meet the other saints in the air—-Praise the Lord. Thank you so much Royce, my old time friend and brother-in-Christ. Amen.!!!

Comment on PATTERNISM IN CHURCHES OF CHRIST: A TEMPLATE FOR SIN by Brian

Brian — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 20:43:29 +0000

Larry, if you have time, take a look at http://www.wayoflife.org. Too, ask yourself: “Did the apostles teach the same thing (Eph. 2:20; 3:5; 2 Peter 3:1-2, 15-16).” I am not a Baptist nor trying for an argument here. But what you are saying goes against sound hermeneutics – to say the least. Take care. -Brian

Comment on PATTERNISM IN CHURCHES OF CHRIST: A TEMPLATE FOR SIN by Brian

Brian — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 20:21:21 +0000

There is “some pattern” in worship, and too – in the individual life of the Christian. I recommend reading/watching debates on each subject of the N.T. instead of the shotgun approach you find here on this website. Also, I am very happy to say that I am a Democrat in politics and a Christian.

Comment on It’s Christmas! by Ethel

Ethel — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 00:45:30 +0000

Royce,
Wishing you and yours also a blessed Christmas and a Happy New York filled with many blessings in 2012.
Ethel Jacobson

Comment on Kenneth Sublett, Apostle for A Cappella in the churches of Christ by Royce

Royce — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 03:19:47 +0000

Points well taken and stated Marvin. Thanks

Comment on Kenneth Sublett, Apostle for A Cappella in the churches of Christ by Marvin

Marvin — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 01:08:38 +0000

No offence, but the title is misleading. Kenneth no more wants to preserve a cappella singing than he does instrumental singing, and is in no way representative of an average member in the a cappella churches of Christ. He’s pretty much anti-music of any kind in a gathering of God’s people. That’s no mainstream a cappella church of Christ view, as I know you must be aware. It’s hardly just progressive blogs he has in his crosshairs.

I’ve years of past experience moderating a forum (which had members of all CofC spectrums and beyond) in which he participated, and I won’t give my impressions here, but I will say that the more you dialogue, the more you feed a serious problem that simply can’t be solved via the internet, but is certainly exacerbated by it. This is not an ad hominem to lessen his points or to discourage this conversation or to hurt Ken in any way, but a voice of experience and observation.

Comment on Kenneth Sublett, Apostle for A Cappella in the churches of Christ by Royce

Royce — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:15:38 +0000

Kenneth,

I’m not splitting hairs. I am only making the point that there is usually more to preaching than reading the Bible and discussing it. I said earlier, that by that artificial standard, Jesus, Peter, and Paul were not preaching. Every good sermon is an exegesis of Scripture. Sometimes it involves discussion and sometimes it doesn’t. Sermons in the Bible are full of quotes from the OT but not all sermons are all Scripture. It is a preacher’s job to help the listeners understand the message of God.

Those early Christians had no church buildings with names on signs. When they came together, they ate together, they shared in the bread and the cup of the Lord’s Supper, they quoted or read Psalms, the Law and the Prophets, and they sang. It would be quite odd for those Christians who had been saved just a short time to not sing together. Do you remember that Jesus and his followers, immediately after he instituted what we call The Lord’s Supper, He and the disciples sung a hymn and then went out? If it was OK for Jesus and the disciples to sing why on earth would God not want other followers of Jesus to sing when they are together? 1st Corinthians 14 makes it abundantly clear that NT Christians sang when the met together.

Comment on Kenneth Sublett, Apostle for A Cappella in the churches of Christ by Ken

Ken — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:28:30 +0000

Thanks Keith: I certainly appreciate people who are willing to discuss the issues. Paul’s often use of “synagogue” to define the gathering demands that the word be read, discussed or debated and try to reach a conclusion. I don’t ever remember a personal attack.

Synagogue was the set-time-place to test syllogisms.