Hello Beloved:
Books and Scripture have been plumbed and exhausted on this topic.
Put your seatbelts on.  It’s time to call for repentance.
In wrapping up this specific series on polity, I’ll open with the remainder of Wayne Grudem’s statement from Systematic Theology; this is the last of the missing chunk from Dave Harvey quoting (or not quoting in context, [...]

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Protestant Knight on September 23rd, 2008

We need a Sabbatical, even if it’s brief, from our discussion on Polity.
But don’t get too comfortable in that hammock.
Today I’d like to re-post a comment that frequent and well-versed commenter Reformed Teacher submitted in the POLITY Episode 3 comments.  It’s worthy of a serious gander, and while reading it, ask yourself these questions (and [...]

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Jim on September 20th, 2008

They left one part out.
Three offerings!
Ok-that was snarky, and I don’t know that they’ll take an offering each Sunday.
A three week build up for one big offering should be just as effective.

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Jim on September 19th, 2008

Adrian Warnock is a serious blogger who is very popular among reformed charismatics. He wouldn’t like this blog, but I like his. Adrian has a library of interviews-some text, some video- that range from interesting to excellent. In 2006, he did a multi part interview with Wayne Grudem. The following is an un-edited portion of [...]

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Hello Beloved:
You’ve made it this far and survived my lame to slightly amusing (and far-reaching) Star Wars analogies in regard to the subject of church polity… congratulations.  But before Leia can hang a medal around our necks, it’s time to dig deep. We have to fly into the belly of the Death Star and fire a shot at the [...]

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