{"id":8295,"date":"2011-11-19T20:11:29","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T01:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/?p=8295"},"modified":"2013-05-31T17:13:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T01:13:36","slug":"well-said-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/well-said-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Well Said…"},"content":{"rendered":"
Here are some of the best blog posts and blog comments I read this week:<\/p>\n
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Dan B from Living a Sent Life in Real Life\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0wrote this great point about pastoral preaching<\/a> and the origins of “heresy:”<\/p>\n Sermons also seem to me to be a form of control. The pastor and others who feel sermons are important don\u2019t trust the Holy Spirit to work or speak through the \u201ccommon\u201d people so they don\u2019t want to give them the opportunity to speak or share. They want to decide what\u2019s most important for people to hear and think. This attitude is reflected in the common objection to home\/simple churches when they say these groups lead to heresy, when in fact heresy is more likely when there\u2019s one dominant leader who thinks he knows best. A small group of sincere believers studying and discussing scripture together does not lead to heresy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Sam from Grace Ground<\/a> clarified the difference between disagreeing with someone and being divisive when he wrote this on the Heresy of Heretics<\/a> post:<\/p>\n \u00a0I\u2019ve been thinking about the people I know who understand many theological\/Biblical issues very differently and yet get along very well as loving brothers who level no accusations against each other. Then I think of those who for primarily personal reasons (that would be a very long list to enumerate) seem to look for almost anything whereby they can accuse their brothers and create division.<\/p>\n Does someone simply understand differently, or are they trying to use their idea to create division? Sometimes it takes awhile to figure this out, but almost always the one trying to cause division is the one who first levels the charge of \u201cheresy\u201d against the other, often accompanied by anger and name calling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n In The Charge of Heresy<\/a>, Clive encouraged us to show the rest of the world a better way to live. This is partly what Jesus did for us 2000 years ago, and is also what we today as followers of Jesus are to do for the rest of the world.<\/p>\n We as christians need to show a better way, but how can we when the Church is divided (heretics) no wonder other beliefs laugh and scorn us. The Roman Catholics believe they are the only ones going to heaven, while the rest of us think we have got it right and there will only be Baptists or Methodists there. We are a rubbish witness. We argue about doctrine which Jesus did not give us, we use it to control and be powerful, that is why people argue and bully.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Katherine Gunn from Truth Makes Freedom<\/a> did some detective work and discovered an area of my theology that has changed. On the I am Divisive<\/a>\u00a0post, she wrote this comment:<\/p>\n \u201cI am sorry to women for our treatment of you as inferior partners in the Gospel.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n I was grateful to see this one on the list (I\u2019m a woman, after all!). A couple of days ago, I read your post\u00a0\u201cEmergent Immersion\u201d<\/a><\/em>\u00a0from July 17, 2007. In that post, you said:<\/p>\n \u201cLet me say for the record that I do not believe that there are any biblical grounds for women being elders or teaching pastors of a church. This doesn\u2019t mean women don\u2019t know how to teach the Bible or don\u2019t have teaching gifts. This woman clearly had a gift of teaching and knew her Bible well. I was impressed. But that doesn\u2019t make it right.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n My question\u2026 I am genuinely interested to know where your thoughts are on this now and why.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Tommy from Search to Find<\/a> asked the following insightful questions about my take on “heretics<\/a>”<\/p>\n \u2026 can we conclude that the reformers were heretics?<\/p>\n \u2026 and every denomination founders who came after?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Jeffrey Roop from Church Blogmatics<\/a> summarized all these posts on Doctrinal Statements<\/a> quite succinctly:<\/p>\n When someone claims to have a corner on the truth, God or the Bible they have relinquished any authority that would have come from the truth, God or the Bible. These must be held with an open hand and not a clenched fist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Great comments, everybody! Thank you for participating in this form of online community. I appreciate you!<\/p>\n Great blog posts and blog comments I have read around the internet from this past week (November 12-19, 2011). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-blogging","8":"entry"},"yoast_head":"\n
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