tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post7425938339078774101..comments2024-03-10T10:40:32.319-07:00Comments on Pyromaniacs: NFC: 6/26/07 evening sessionPhil Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00649092052031518426noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-70039724305708331642007-06-29T09:52:00.000-07:002007-06-29T09:52:00.000-07:00Great stuff here!Great stuff here!Caleb Kolstadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16430229005942296570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-85379530888910420362007-06-28T09:42:00.000-07:002007-06-28T09:42:00.000-07:00Philness, that would have been great. My time's be...Philness, that would have been great. My time's been very full, and happily so. Thanks so much for the offer. Another time?<BR/><BR/>Yes, it's been pretty wet!<BR/><BR/>Phil did take me to this sporting goods store, the likes of which I've NEVER seen ANYWHERE. Really amazing.DJPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16471042180904855578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-39814919418110487112007-06-27T08:31:00.000-07:002007-06-27T08:31:00.000-07:00Dan,Thanks for the live blogging. I get the pictu...Dan,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the live blogging. I get the picture of God graciously reaching down to man with His instructions or manual for life (the Word) rather than man reaching up to Him with a list of repair orders. If we haven’t read the manual first we shouldn’t be calling on tech support. They’ll just refer us back to the manual and hang up on us. <BR/><BR/>Are you guys getting wet? Its rained for 2 months straight around these parts. I’m just a few hours away. Let me take you fishing if you get some time.philnesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04393311811604119321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-84295459393762490952007-06-27T08:10:00.000-07:002007-06-27T08:10:00.000-07:00From what I read of Wells, I hear a truth that the...From what I read of Wells, I hear a truth that the culture itself impacts the gospel, changing the nature of the gospel, paralleling the Scriptural teaching of separation from worldliness---separation the means of protecting the gospel of Christ. He makes the connection between the world and the flesh (self) and the gospel. He portrays compromise with the world in music, art, entertainment, etc. as the means of deterioration of the gospel. Keeping clear lines of separation is about the gospel.Kent Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-64498996460705541702007-06-27T07:46:00.000-07:002007-06-27T07:46:00.000-07:00Wow Dan. Great liveblogging! Right up there with C...Wow Dan. Great liveblogging! Right up there with Challies! Good job giving us the gist of the message.candyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06088593538648596769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-43331400346715730002007-06-27T06:40:00.000-07:002007-06-27T06:40:00.000-07:00Thanks for the note on the purpose of the Founders...Thanks for the note on the purpose of the Founders ministry, which is what interested me. "Their great concern is not so much to make everyone into Calvinists per se, but to glorify God, honor His Gospel, and strengthen churches by a recovery of the importance of Biblical doctrine to Christianity. The problem is not so much Arminianism as it is non-theology, pragmatism over concern for God's truth. Churches must become Word-centered. None can glorify Jesus Christ if God's revelation is removed from center stage."<BR/><BR/>That's it. That is so it.James Scott Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07641370124346172648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-55934783326450805382007-06-27T05:37:00.000-07:002007-06-27T05:37:00.000-07:00Letitia, Wells doesn't tend to stress methodology ...Letitia, Wells doesn't tend to stress methodology per se. His emphasis is not usually pastoral. He's an academic, and speaks thus, though what he says has practical implications.<BR/><BR/>Hargrave's emphasis in the first address was on pulpit ministry, since he's presumably speaking to a lot of pastors (among others). The practical takeaway emphasis I got from him is to preach the whole counsel of God, not cut corners. (This could be derived from Wells also.)<BR/><BR/>If pastors preach the Word fully, presumably the folks in their care will be better instructed, and better able to disseminate the message themselves.<BR/><BR/>My impression is that that, alone, would represent a seismic change in the SBC.DJPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16471042180904855578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-67959249205016535262007-06-27T04:26:00.000-07:002007-06-27T04:26:00.000-07:00"not perfecting our work but creating afresh and a..."not perfecting our work but creating afresh and anew something that was not in the human spirit before."<BR/><BR/>I thought of 2 Cor. 5:17.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for taking the time to post this. You remind me of Tim Challis.<BR/><BR/>Seems like a well worth conference to be attending.donsandshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03665794015011057098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-12339242407378512982007-06-27T03:59:00.000-07:002007-06-27T03:59:00.000-07:00Everyone likes a good sale at the mall. Well, mayb...Everyone likes a good sale at the mall. Well, maybe not everybody.<BR/><BR/>Compromising God's word is kinda like marking down the price of following Him. Some pastors or preachers are doing this because they claim it will attract new people. Putting Jesus on sale, now 20% off. There are some people out there who like the Conviction Lite version of Christianity.<BR/><BR/>My view:<BR/>Christ gave 100% to us. What good to Him is someone only willing to give back 80%?<BR/><BR/>Also, I just read the Baptist Confession of 1689 for the first time. Thanks for the link.<BR/><BR/>Love<BR/>DaveDave on the Prairiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07253735392732303883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-39932995652542946342007-06-27T00:17:00.000-07:002007-06-27T00:17:00.000-07:00Hey I almost never blog, hence my blog name is for...Hey I almost never blog, hence my blog name is for irony only, but after this, well, ya never know...<BR/><BR/>I have been waiting anxiously for the conference's ongoings! I would really like to know what Southern Baptist churches in particular are going to so to engage this so-called "postmodern" society we live in. (I say so-called, because I actually think that our country is beyond mere postmodernity now, but that's just my take.) Anyhoo, I ask, because I have some faith and hope among our reformed brothers and sisters out there to actually DO something to inject the gospel into the culture in more thought provoking ways. Yes, I know this is a loaded statement which requires explanation, but I'll get to that later if anyone cares to ask. For now, have there been any suggestions or strategies at this conference (either formally or informally) to really get into the world and spread the gospel any differently than in the past 50 years???<BR/><BR/>Just to be certain, don't anyone get all defensive about church things now. I was a member of SB churches for most of my life, and I know the denomination as well as anyone could. The SBC is stagnating (admit it--it's true), and I think it's due to lack of authentic gospel preaching. So, I wanna know what people are going to do about it.<BR/><BR/>I'd better stop now before I get too worked up...<BR/><BR/>Peace,<BR/>Letitia (just use "bloggernaut")bloggernauthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721174374654762327noreply@blogger.com