April 23, 2022
In this section, Paul concludes his boasting (2 Corinthians 12:11-13) and anticipates his third visit (2 Corinthians 14-21). Paul has played the fool. He has engaged in, what he regards as, foolish boasting. He was compelled to do so because the Corinthians had accepted the credentials of the “super-apostles” above his own. Whatever the “super-apostles” […]
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Biblical Texts | Tagged: Boasting, Client, Division, Factions, Finances, Patron, Sexual Immorality, Sexuality, Signs, Strife |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
May 20, 2014
The Nashville Tennessean, in an article entitled “ALL DELIGHTED,” described the proceedings of the General Christian Missionary Convention’s 1892 annual meeting (October 21, 1892, p. 8). This was a highwater mark in the tension within the Stone-Campbell Movement (or, American Restoration Movement). The missionary societies held their convention in the capital of its opposition. There […]
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Stone-Campbell | Tagged: Christian Church, Church of Christ, Churches of Christ, David Lipscomb, Disciples of Christ, Division, Indiana Tradition, James A. Harding, Missionary Society, Nashville, Tennessee Tradition, Texas Tradition, Unity |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
March 4, 2010
The story of the division of “The Christian Church of McGregor” in McGregor, Texas, near Waco, is of particular significance for several reasons. Organized on August 25, 1883, it divided on September 23, 1897. The division resulted in two groups: “The First Christian Church of McGregor” and “the Church of Christ” (the capital letters are […]
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Stone-Campbell | Tagged: David Lipscomb, Division, Firm Foundation, G. A. Trott, Holman, McGregor, Rebaptism, Stone-Campbell, Tenessee Tradition, Texas Tradition, Unity |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
June 25, 2009
When the division between Churches of Christ and the Christian Churches was recognized by the religious census of 1906, the theological perspectives among the Churches of Christ were fairly diverse. While there was an ecclesiological consensus to separate from the Christian Churches, there was considerable diversity between the three major representative “traditions” among Churches of […]
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Books, Stone-Campbell | Tagged: Austin McGary, Churches of Christ, Daniel Sommer, Division, Firm Foundation, Gospel Advocate, Holy Spirit, Indiana Tradition, Institutionalism, James A. Harding, Octographic Review, Rebaptism, Sunday School, Tennessee Tradition, Texas Tradition |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
April 19, 2009
Patternism does not entail division as long as it does not subvert grace and it graciously treats another believer with mercy. Rather, it is the attitudes, agendas and acidity of the people involved that generate division. Patternism itself is not to blame and neither is “restorationism’s” search for a pattern. When people are treated with gracious humility, patternism can be […]
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Stone-Campbell | Tagged: Alexander Campbell, David Lipscomb, Division, E. G. Sewell, Ecclesiology, Grace, Patternism, Perfectionism, Stone-Campbell, Unity, Woodland Christian Church |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
January 19, 2009
Winchester, Kentucky, is a small town of only 16,000 in a county (Clark) of 33,000. The city lies in the heart of the origins of the Stone-Campbell Movement. Within a sixty mile radius are Lexington, Cane Ridge, Mt. Sterling, Georgetown and other famous cities of the early years of that history. The story of the Stone-Campbell Movement […]
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Stone-Campbell | Tagged: African American, Christian Church, Churches of Christ, Disciples of Christ, Division, Fellowship, Institutional, Instrumental Music, Kentucky, Noninstitutional, Stone-Campbell, Winchester |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
January 12, 2009
Peter Abelard (1079-1142), who pioneered the scholastic method of theologizing, produced a volume entitled Sic et Non (or, “Yes and No”) for use in teaching through the dialectic method. It is a composition of quotes from earlier theologians and fathers on a variety of topics, but they are arranged oppositionally, that is, some theologians say […]
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Books, Stone-Campbell | Tagged: Churches of Christ, Conservative, Division, Doctrine, Faith, Fellowship, Hermeneutics, Opinion, Salvation, Todd Deaver, Traditional, Unity |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
January 1, 2009
The article below, by the hand of J. N. Armstrong, first appeared in The Way entitled “United, Yet Divided” [4 (14 August 1902) 156-158]. Contextually, several factors are involved. First, the Firm Foundation out of Austin, Texas–under the editorship of Austin McGary–was pushing a sectarian agenda which demanded unity on many fronts as a prerequiste for […]
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Stone-Campbell, Theology | Tagged: Austin McGary, Churches of Christ, Daniel Sommer, David Lipscomb, Division, Fellowship, J. N. Armstrong, James A. Harding, Right Hand of Fellowship, Stone-Campbell, Stone-Campbell Movement, Unity |
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