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
March 4, 2009
In an earlier post I quoted a piece from G. C. Brewer’s autobiography where he objected to the emphasis that some placed on the plan of salvation rather than on a personal savior. His comment came in the context of discussing the role of confession in the five-step (or is it four-step or three-step?) plan […]
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Stone-Campbell | Tagged: Austin McGary, Baptists, Churches of Christ, Confession, David Lipscomb, E. G. Sewell, Firm Foundation, G. C. Brewer, Gospel, Gospel Advocate, Plan of Salvation, Rebaptism, Tennessee Tradition, Texas Tradition |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
January 23, 2009
In my next post I will turn my attention to “privilege,” but in this one I dig deeper into the argument for silence. The Tennessee Tradition regarded public silence as godly submission on the part of faithful women. Given the Tennessee understanding that women were inferior to men in terms of leadership capacity and excluded from […]
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Stone-Campbell | Tagged: Assembly, Bible Class, Bible-1 Corinthians, Churches of Christ, David Lipscomb, E. G. Sewell, Female, James A. Harding, Preachers, Preaching, R. C. Bell, Stone-Campbell, Sunday School, Tennessee Tradition, Women |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
January 21, 2009
My previous post provided the common ground upon which Churches of Christ distinguished themselves from the “digressives” in the first decade of the 20th century regarding “women’s work in the church.” The editors of the major journals among Churches of Christ were agreed that (1) women are not permitted to preach the word publicly (as evangelists in […]
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Stone-Campbell | Tagged: Assembly, Churches of Christ, David Lipscomb, E. G. Sewell, Female, Gospel Advocate, James A. Harding, New Woman, R. C. Bell, The Way, True Womanhood, Womanhood, Women |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks