Recent content by John of Japan

What's your point here? Are you for or against a church security team?

They have kindly put me on the church security team, but I have not yet been allowed to beat up anyone. :Ninja

Great post!

People often connect "soul liberty" to the Calvinist-Arminian discussion, but I believe that emphasis is mistaken. It is not a synonym of "free will." The term is used in the Baptist distinctives with the meaning that a believer is free to make his or her own choices in regards to religion...

8th black in Shen Dian Chuan kung fu, 4th black in Pai Lum Kung Fu, cross-ranked 2nd black in karate and jujutsu (but brown belts in judo and karate without the cross rank, which is often political). Also trained in Wing Chun, Tan Tui, etc.

Definitely not KJVO.

Yep.

I would agree that, as some have said, "saint" is the word for "believer in Christ" after the Gospels. The word "saint" occurs in 62 verses in the NT, and only one of them is in the Gospels (Matt. 27:52). On the other hand, the word for believer in the Gospels is "disciple." However, that word...

I would add, only two offices (pastor and deacon), and the Bible as the sole rule of faith and practice. Those two are extremely important.

Actually, the NASV was published in 1971, and he went to Heaven in 1980. I'm sure he knew about it, but by 1971 he was quite settled in his ways, and did not use it or write anything about it to the best of my knowledge.

I'll give it a look.

I pretty much agree, but I teach tithing as a wonderful practice. I just don't see it as a distinctive of Baptists, since Christianity across the board (including me) teaches tithing.

I'd be interested concerning what historical link you have found between the Anabaptists and those who went by the name Baptist in England (beginning in the early 1600s), the American colonies, etc. Reading Theologians of the Baptist Tradition, ed. by Timothy George and David Dockery (2001)...

Calvary Baptist supported us while we were in Japan. Great church!

I like your post. However, IMO as a fundamentalist, Jerry Sr. left the fold when he decided to bail out Jim Bakker and his "ministry." We fundamentalists have as a distinctive ecclesiastical separation. Bakker was in every way someone who Falwell should have separated from: immoral with bad...