Naphtali, I'm at quite a loss to respond by email. I cannot uncover your email address anywhere. If you like, send me anything, even a blank message to:
BIALYSTOCKMAX@YAHOO.COM -----"Uncle Max Bialystock."
Hee hee hee. You just wanna bust my chops, dontcha? OK, I'll "bite." Actually, a boycott is a matter of NOT doing something, i.e. BUYING. Anyway, your reply is a half-step removed from the sort of thing both you and I know that I had in mind. Shal...
I am often the "lone voice crying in the wilderness." Pardon my out-of-step observation in response to your desire to start a new church. (By that, I think you mean starting-up a new congregation?)
The "short answer" is that I just don't get it. ...
Hello, Naphtali.
I'm short on actually being able to offer a story with ins-and-outs and intricate details. I was too young to recall any of that. It happened (as with us all) when I was baptized in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spi...
Sure, but we'll leave the "how-to" to the ones who can get it done. We just want to stand up for and promote what's good, decent, right and ethical. ---"Uncle Max."
What a nice surprise, to find out that I'm talking to the author of the paper under discussion. What you just wrote above makes too much sense to me to argue with, except one thing.
You wrote: "But I don't think that idea will fly...... beyond it...
The author writes: "The best sort of new Presby. "Establishment" would consist of "tall-steeple" pastors, EPs, Stated Clerks, and lay people (Elders?) devoted to the work of the church both locally and regionally."
My response: Maybe so, but not ...
Hello, again. I don't think we're on the same page, though I'm not surprised about that, if I may say so. For one thing, I have put what's called "substitution-ary atonement" behind me. My understanding of "Jesus Christ died for my sins" is not a ...
Well, Naphtali, good for you. No doubt you're referring to "Law" vs. "Grace" (or "Faith") as in the Letters of Paul from Tarsus. I have absolutely no doubt that if Paul had to do it all over again, he'd have come up with a better way to get his po...
A diverse church would be a wonderful thing. The more diverse, the better, but not for the sake of diversity. Let us spread the Good News to all, so that the Body of Christ grows in all ways possible. I don't see the point in attracting any and ev...
I just read the thing. It is a mixed bag. I do NOT "hear" him calling for us to return to the '50s. Some specific excerpts, and my own rebuttals:
He writes: "There is no constituency anymore in the denomination representing the old doctrine of th...