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Subject: Did other churches use intruments |
Bible Note: Dear gospelmann: Having read all your posts to date, I am pleased to welcome you to this Forum. We are for the most part a fellowship of Christian believers with a common bond, to study God's word together and to learn, as iron sharpens iron, from one another. We try to meld together here as mere Christians. Even though we hail from various and sundry communions within the Christian community, it is, I believe, widely understood among the regular denizens of this Forum that the canopy of the church, the body of Christ, is broad enough to shelter a multitude of relatively minor points of doctrine. So, for example, a Baptist such as I can fellowship with (and learn from!) a follower of Christ who happens to be of the Presbyterian, Assembly of God or other communions. ...... We who have been regulars of the Forum for years have learned the folly of debate, and so has the Lockman Foundation; hence, a proscription against it. ...... It is o.k. to state one's theological point of view, even one's denomination's views, as you have done. There's nothing wrong with that. But we do advocate that the views be stated once and be done with. It's the continued PUSHING of one's denominational bias that leads to dissention and ill will and usually and most probably to some sort of disciplinary action being taken. ...... But, you have committed no breaches of Forum guidelines at this point, so far as I'm able to determine. So, again, I welcome you as you join us in the same kindred spirit that guided the Bereans of old, as we search the Scriptures daily to determine what things are so. Soli Deo Gloria! --Hank |