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You raise several excellent points and I especially like your quip - "What? Have ye no houses to jam in?" I might just have to steal that! I was in a church that had went "Contemporary" where the "Worship Leader" sat down the choir and orchestra and pretty much "Dismissed them!" I then helped...

Such as what you might sing for "God and Country" Sunday? I would agree but does what we sing in church HAVE to be worship? What about "Special" music? I am always telling people there are songs that say "Sing with me" and other songs that say "Listen to what I am saying" and we need to know...

I absolutely hear you here! I hear people being referred to as a "Worship Pastor" and I cannot help myself sometimes saying "No, you are not! You are a Band Leader or perhaps a "Front Man" in a band! I don't mind well-written and well performed "Contemporary Christian Music" but such should...

Free will is always limited by our ability. We cannot flap our arms and fly like a bird, breathe underwater (without SCUBA equipment), or jump 20,000 feet out of a perfectly good airplane without a parachute and expect to survive. Not everyone has the ability to sing like Luciano Pavrotti so...

I haven't been here too long so forgive me if this topic hasn't been beat into the ground yet. Perhaps this would be a good diversion from debating Calvinism and PSA? I think we could use a good break here and find a topic upon which we could really pick a fight? What about worship (music)...

If such is how PSA is illustrated, I believe this is where PSA comes up short. Not just anyone could stand up and take your place. Even if such were actually guiltless. The one standing up to take your place has to be the OFFENDED PARTY (which is God). Justice is demanded and the verdict is...

I know this was directed towards me and I probably haven't adequately responded as of yet and I do apologize. I have quite a few irons in the fire right now so please forgive me if I seem a little distracted. One thing I would point out is that blood is emblematic of the fact that a death has...

What I am learning is that if we both stick to the scriptures, we actually agree more than we disagree. In order to address PSA in a more fair and academic sense, I would need to do better research to fully understand the position as articulated by Calvin and others and from there, evaluate...

Calvary Chapel actually follows such a model. In addition to their theological and pastoral training, it is required of those training for the ministry either to have or to acquire some sort of trade in which to support themselves. My thoughts is if you have a doctorate or whatever and feel as...

I do agree here. The "my time is worth something" remark was not made from the Pastor's POV but from that of a Deacon (of which I happen to be right now) standing up for his pastor and speaking on his behalf! We ought to be respectful of a man's time.

I was there almost 20 years after your father had been gone so likely a completely different crowd although I am not sure when Michael Pearl or Ed Morris began their pastorates or if either had anything to do with the "hostile takeover" of the Church? Playing guitar helped me to see that they...

ROFL!:Roflmao Yes, I am certainly thankful the pastor allowed me to get back up!

I have checked out his "No Greater Joy" website and even tried reaching out to him. Listening to a few of his messages, it seems to me that he gets dangerously close to "Open Theism" if not already there. I'm not sure if this was their objection though. This was my personal, recent observation...

I interacted with the Thrifthaven crowd quite a bit as well. Went into their Serviceman's Center just off the base one day and I'm pretty sure the worker must've thought I was lost because I was wearing mirrored sunglasses that day!:Roflmao Very stoic bunch. I don't think I ever saw any of them...

Small world, that was the Church where I was baptized! Right off Raleigh-Millington rd. There is still a Church there and it is still IFB (and KJVO). My wife and I stopped by there some years ago and talked to some of the members who were working on the property. I believe it is called "New Hope...

Yes.

These were matters of conscience and Paul's admonition that we should be careful in the exercise of our liberty not to offend our weaker brothers. My examples are based upon hyperbole taken to the utmost extreme! But you are probably aware of this!:D

I'd say that a man's time ought to be worth something. They say that in order to properly prepare for a 45-minute sermon, it takes about around 40-45 hours of study and preparation. What would be a good "Hourly Rate" for this person's time? What is the hourly rate for someone to do diagnostics...

Sorry, I'm just not understanding your point! What am I missing here? This "Texas Redneck" is not ashamed to admit when a "Kentucky Redneck" say something that goes right over his head!:Roflmao Anybody? Anybody? Anybody? Bueller?

I am going to try this again being very careful of my verbiage here: Romans 8:3-4 - For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be...