Comments on: I am glad to go to the house of the LORD if I can find it.

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Thu, 01 Nov 2012 23:45:18 +0000

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By: chrisgale

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 18:08:00 +0000

Part of our job is to confront ministers.

I have learnt to ask questions… such as how to make this compatable with this scripture, or this part of the confession of faith? And no, you cannot argue from gender or other forms of authority.
The site is called Dark Brightness for a reason. Being popular is not the same as being right.

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By: ukfred

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 18:00:00 +0000

I too up in the Kirk. I now live in England where the Presbyterian Church merged with the Congregationalists and the United Reformed Church which it became is now dying from an excess of liberalism. Following a bust up over homosexuality in our local Baptist church where I felt spiritually at home until the senior minister decided to preach that homosexual activity was not contrary to God’s Word, my wife and I decided to try the local churches. I had been very hurt by the misuse of canon law in an Anglican church and decided that I would not be going there. The Methodist Church and the Elim were left and aside from one couple we knew from the Anglican church, we were about the youngest by around 10 years in the Elim, and then our teenaged daughter decided she wanted to come to the Methodist Church and so our decision was made. But now we find that Young Methodists consider “cohabitation is both right and sensible” and the Methodist Church in the UK is preparing a resource on cohabitation for Young Methodists. I really do not want to change churches again, for the third time in 30 years without moving house, especially as the congregation and house groups are welcoming and generally positively Christian as opposed to churchian. I am wondering about staying where I am as a subversive evangelical guerrilla. The house group is certainly becoming more evangelical and better understands what its members each believe and we have fun while studying the Bible.

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By: chrisgale

Sat, 27 Oct 2012 23:12:00 +0000

Well, I’m reformed… and the video on salvation missed a few things. I’ll comment over there.

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By: Ruth Sammons

Sat, 27 Oct 2012 21:21:00 +0000

if you have the time, Chris, google Our Life in Christ, check out the archives and listen to one or two of the many podcasts. Rightclick to download and then listen anywhere. I think you’d like them.

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By: chrisgale

Sat, 27 Oct 2012 17:21:00 +0000

You make the good point that there is corruption, but it is minimal.

The post was driven by the frustration that occurs in evangelical circles. Personally, I have returned to the denomination that I grew up in (Presbyterian) despite my family “going Pentecostal”. I have nothing against my Dad;s church (he goes to Elim in Howick) but the local kirk has a more reformed faith, uses multiple ministers, and isolates the liberals in congregations I can avoid.

(Note that I have sympathy to the Orthodox. The Reformed are people who strip things back to bareness, but all the confessional churches have much more in common than they have apart in these fallen times.

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By: Ruth Sammons

Sat, 27 Oct 2012 12:02:00 +0000

I am a Kiwi who has returned to the ancient faith, Orthodoxy. Yes it is about repentance … and also the synergy of God’s work and ours. It is a Church I don’t have to defend. I go home after a Liturgy feeling better than I did before, not angry and frustrated. Yes, corruption occurs within Orthodoxy, but with this difference: it is recognised as corruption. And there is much holiness; our NZ bishop is a holy man and this has far-reaching effects.

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