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NASB | John 17:17 "Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth. |
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Subject: Is there intelligent life on earth? |
Bible Note: Dear Brother Tim, Now I know what Curly Joe felt like when he had tape stuck on his fingers! If I continue to answer your questions, will you just keep asking the same ones over and over? I'm game. :-) I gave you four examples where I witnessed skits and no preaching. I'm not sure why you would question my veracity. By the way, you stated that you had never seen this done. The facts of our experience together do not prove anything except that you haven't been to the churches that I attended. It certainly doesn't prove that such churches don't exist. No, there is nothing inherently wrong with skits. I suppose the old morality plays fit right in with TBN. If a believer doesn't love the Word of God enough to sit under its admonition (an evidence of salvation) -- or lacks the discipline (part of the fruit of the Spirit) -- then what you have is only a church by virtue of sign out front. Why are you so opposed to preaching the word? Why do you want to defend those who want to dispense with it? (John 4:21, Malachi 1:11, 1 Timothy 2:8, Acts 10:2, Matthew 6:11, Psalms 55:17, Matthew 6:6, Hebrews 10:25, Acts 2:42.) Lets not do that junk any more about "bar tune" equals "bar song." It is verifiably misleading if not downright false. Even were it true, do you think that a Fanny Crosby lyric in iambic pentameter is sullied somehow because Alice Cooper wrote one in the same form? What is your objection to traditional hymns? You really think singing the chorus "People need the Lord" 25 times can actually compare with the depth of truth in "A Mighty Fortress?" Doesn't Colossians 3:16 say that we are to *teach* by our songs and hymns? People do need the Lord, but the congregation can't get this point unless it is repeated 25 times? So what you are saying is that styles of music do not appeal more or less to the flesh? Or more or less to the mind? Or more or less to the spirit? The way music appeals to any part of a man is part of the culture as well. Please don't associate me with "tempo faster than your heart beat" folks. This is also faulty reasoning and unbecoming of believers when they are deliberating. What is wrong with 100 or 200 year old music? Perhaps there is a reason that they have endured? In my church the regulative principle is observed, but there is often music that has been penned in the last decade. The regulative principle has nothing to do with when a hymn was composed. Why is it that so many "churches" think they have to look like the world? Aren't we new creatures? Don't we have the very Spirit of God? Why is it we think we can't come up with music that would last as long as some of the hymns of St. Francis have lasted? Aren't we creative enough? In Him, Doc PS Okay, brother Tim... I'm ready... asks your questions over again. :-) |