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Cribro has left a new comment on your post "KJVO and Fundamentalism":

Hear, hear!



Posted by Cribro to εις επαινον δοξης αυτου at 11:43 AM

[εις επαινον δοξης αυτου] New comment on KJVO and Fundamentalism.

lilrabbi has left a new comment on your post "KJVO and Fundamentalism":

If the only "fundamentalist" churches in the area all indeed winked at PCC (which some in the area certainly do), I would not go to a fundamentalist church. Thankfully there is a church in the area (several, I'm sure) that have no problem giving a look of disgust PCC's way.



Posted by lilrabbi to εις επαινον δοξης αυτου at 9:09 PM

[εις επαινον δοξης αυτου] New comment on KJVO and Fundamentalism.

Matthew LaPine has left a new comment on your post "KJVO and Fundamentalism":

I wonder if some of this is the common view that the right is "safer" than the left. You'll find no disagreement from me on this one.



Posted by Matthew LaPine to εις επαινον δοξης αυτου at 7:47 AM

[εις επαινον δοξης αυτου] New comment on Amusing Ourselves to Death.

mark fincham has left a new comment on your post "Amusing Ourselves to Death":

I've read both also, liked Huxley's way better, more realistic of what could happen in America. Ayn Rand's "Anthem" is along the same lines as these two also, only a better ending.



Posted by mark fincham to εις επαινον δοξης αυτου at 7:34 PM

[εις επαινον δοξης αυτου] New comment on Just Curious.

Andy has left a new comment on your post "Just Curious":

I would glady hang this in my home. As for my ability to afford a Picasso... that's another matter.

Artistically, this is designed to let you know he's singing the blues. The odd angles and coloring are there to make you uncomfortable. (I've seen plenty of guitarists on the streets of Spain that look like this; the position isn't completely out of the ordinary.) The rough lines and stark composition are exemplary.

Art, postmodern or not, is a reflection of the soul. And if this is a reflection the sorrow in this man's heart, who are we to pass by on the other side?



Posted by Andy to εις επαινον δοξης αυτου at 8:08 AM

[εις επαινον δοξης αυτου] New comment on Amusing Ourselves to Death.

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Amusing Ourselves to Death":

http://yasinearth.blogspot.com/



Posted by Anonymous to εις επαινον δοξης αυτου at 8:11 AM

[εις επαινον δοξης αυτου] New comment on "Why I Joined Willow Creek Community Church".

lilrabbi has left a new comment on your post ""Why I Joined Willow Creek Community Church"":

Did he lose a lot of weight by eating at subway? And when did he dye his hair?



Posted by lilrabbi to εις επαινον δοξης αυτου at 5:15 PM

[εις επαινον δοξης αυτου] New comment on "Why I Joined Willow Creek Community Church".

Matthew LaPine has left a new comment on your post ""Why I Joined Willow Creek Community Church"":

Ben, I was wondering some of the same things. It's not as if he just switched churches. He switched to an egalitarian view, to an amillennial viewpoint, etc. There is more to the story than what he's saying. I wonder what it is.



Posted by Matthew LaPine to εις επαινον δοξης αυτου at 4:42 PM

[εις επαινον δοξης αυτου] New comment on Question???.

lilrabbi has left a new comment on your post "Question???":

we could call that group, "Lilrabies". That oozes sophistication.



Posted by lilrabbi to εις επαινον δοξης αυτου at 7:27 PM

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Josh Butler has left a new comment on your post "Question???":

A wise man once said, "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."



Posted by Josh Butler to εις επαινον δοξης αυτου at 2:51 PM

[εις επαινον δοξης αυτου] New comment on Just Curious.

Butler has left a new comment on your post "Just Curious":

What you are seeing is this picture

http://www.flickr.com/photos/saylorvillebaptist/439871792/in/set-72157600036558676/

through the eyes of a staunch anti-chorus anti-guitar fundamentalist.



Posted by Butler to εις επαινον δοξης αυτου at 2:02 PM

[εις επαινον δοξης αυτου] New comment on Question???.

Josh Butler has left a new comment on your post "Question???":

Labels define us. I do agree that a mountain has been made out of a mole hill when it comes to "older" Fundamentalist's condemnation of those who have removed the word Baptist from their title.
I remember Bob Jones III in chapel one time suggested that with the recent Islamic Terrorist's redefining of the word Fundamentalist we should adopt a new label. It seems to me often the reason why people are removing the name Baptist from their name is because the word has been redefined if not defiled in their specific geographical area. I see a huge parallel between BJ III reasoning and these peoples reasoning. I see nothing wrong with redefining ones organization if their current label is archaic if not negative in nature.



Posted by Josh Butler to εις επαινον δοξης αυτου at 1:12 PM

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post ""Why I Joined Willow Creek Community Church"":

Very wise statements. I've never thought of that.



Posted by Anonymous to εις επαινον δοξης αυτου at 12:47 PM

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Justin has left a new comment on your post ""Why I Joined Willow Creek Community Church"":

that was a very gracious article.



Posted by Justin to εις επαινον δοξης αυτου at 11:37 AM

[εις επαινον δοξης αυτου] New comment on Question???.

Matthew LaPine has left a new comment on your post "Question???":

who wants to be a lilrabbian? :) lol



Posted by Matthew LaPine to εις επαινον δοξης αυτου at 9:55 AM

[εις επαινον δοξης αυτου] New comment on Question???.

Matthew LaPine has left a new comment on your post "Question???":

understand, in my comment I haven't described the teams or the battle... just a clarification of what I said earlier



Posted by Matthew LaPine to εις επαινον δοξης αυτου at 9:43 AM

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lilrabbi has left a new comment on your post "Question???":

That's the idea. Some people will do evil with labels just as some people will do evil with a nice sculpture.

You really do have to weigh whether a label is still what it was. The language of a people will change over time.

It is easy for me. I am not in any position of consequence, so I don't have to worry about things like this. I'm fairly free to think of it without the chains of the practical.

For my part, I'm not sure I would call myself a fundamentalist. Can I be a Machenist instead? I am definitely a baptist. Definitely a Calvinist. Probably not a Van Tillian. Yeah, in my mind, these labels are still helpful. That said - you can't control every misconception that an ill-conceiving populace may have!

I'm not sure there has ever been a fundamentalist mystic. I find that hard to believe.



Posted by lilrabbi to εις επαινον δοξης αυτου at 7:33 AM

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Matthew LaPine has left a new comment on your post "Question???":

You know, I don't know how I feel about labels in all circumstances but I'd like to know who my friends are. To me that's the bottom line. It's not that I want to know who I can be friends with, but who's striving for the same things I am. I'm sure that during the civil war the men appreciated the difference between grey and blue.



Posted by Matthew LaPine to εις επαινον δοξης αυτου at 5:38 AM

[εις επαινον δοξης αυτου] New comment on Question???.

Matthew LaPine has left a new comment on your post "Question???":

I'd like to nominate this for quote of the month: It would be like a monastary telling the layity: "We are keeping the works of Charles Finney for ourselves. You shall have none of him."

Big loss.



Posted by Matthew LaPine to εις επαινον δοξης αυτου at 5:30 AM

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lilrabbi has left a new comment on your post "Question???":

For what its worth, I could care less that a church can't send counselors to camp. I would consider that church relieved of a great evil. They should praise God for it.

It would be like a monastary telling the layity: "We are keeping the works of Charles Finney for ourselves. You shall have none of him."

Big loss.



Posted by lilrabbi to εις επαινον δοξης αυτου at 11:18 PM

[εις επαινον δοξης αυτου] New comment on Question???.

lilrabbi has left a new comment on your post "Question???":

lol

Labeling and organizing is nothing new. It is the mark of a healthy culture and of a good wife (both of which are to be desired!). The pre-modern medievals were avid orginizers and labelers. Think Thomas Aquinas.

To talk this way is very parochial. Naming and labeling is who we are as humans, it is what we do.

Ben, why do you identify your self as SBC? Why the label, eh? Just curious:)

Some people are as shallow as you guys are complaining about, but Ben's fear that this be accepted as the sum total and thus be "taken too far" is well founded.

I wonder if our movement is falling apart. I'm not sure that wouldn't be good. On second thought, I'm not sure I care so much.

I hate politics.



Posted by lilrabbi to εις επαινον δοξης αυτου at 11:14 PM

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Justin has left a new comment on your post "Question???":

Labels give a sense of identity. They also help us live within a comfort zone. They allow us not to think for ourselves. They also in way help us live a life of discrimination and bigotry. For instance! Members of the Iowa Association of Regular Baptist Churches have chosen not to fellowship with a church plant of a fellow association church. Why? Because they do not have "Baptist" in their name. Where does this spill over into? Not only fellowship but teaching. Why teaching? This same church plant can not send counselors to the Association Camp, Iowa Regular Baptist Camp.

Now explain to me how a group of churches and a bunch members on a board at a camp would say such a thing and institute such a harsh shunning of a church plant 1)was planted by a fellow BAPTIST church and 2) believes everything doctrinally the association and the camp stands for. This just seems silly to me.

To further muddy the waters, what does Faith Baptist Theological Seminary have to say about Bob Jones University that has Presbyterian pastors and Bible church pastors regularly preach from their pulpits, serve on their boards, teach at their schools and allow the students to attend their churches. Faith and the IARBC need to look at who they are going to fellowship with again because even BJU (a more conservative school) at least sees past the BAPTIST segregation.



Posted by Justin to εις επαινον δοξης αυτου at 11:37 AM

[εις επαινον δοξης αυτου] New comment on Men of Whom the World Was Not Worthy.

will hatfield has left a new comment on your post "Men of Whom the World Was Not Worthy":

Matt,

You might want to note the follow up post about exaggerations reported in reference to torture.

Thanks,
Will



Posted by will hatfield to εις επαινον δοξης αυτου at 10:04 AM