tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19322660.post115363124565969074..comments2024-03-18T00:05:07.328-07:00Comments on The Puritan's Sword: A Biblical Examination of Philosophical, Theological, and Political Trends: On Church UnityR.S. Ladwighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13487404072546513179noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19322660.post-1153897930149487462006-07-26T00:12:00.000-07:002006-07-26T00:12:00.000-07:00Oh um, you can comment on your own page in respons...Oh um, you can comment on your own page in response to other people. Or to make yourself feel good. I like to do that makes me feel like what I am a winner, finding the champion in me.R.S. Ladwighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13487404072546513179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19322660.post-1153638919546337842006-07-23T00:15:00.000-07:002006-07-23T00:15:00.000-07:00To give a bit of follow up, emergent church leader...To give a bit of follow up, emergent church leader has said the following:<BR/><BR/>"Republicans, Democrats, Greens, Socialistics, Communitarians, Libertarians. We have everything you could imagine. We have Texas Baptists who don't let women preach, and we have lesbian mainline pastors in New England... We haven't yet found that there's anything that justifies us breaking fellowship with somebody else who loves and is trying to follow Jesus."<BR/><BR/>"I'm even more concerned that people have statements of faith. Statements of faith are about drawing boards, (sic) which means you have to load your weapons and place soldiers at those borders. You have to check people's passports when they pass those borders. It becomes an obsession--guarding the borders. That is simply not the ministry of Jesus. It wasn't the ministry of Paul or Peter. It started to become the ministry of the early Church, and it abated somewhat in the Middle Ages and blew back to life in the time of modernity. For the short duration of time that I have on this planet to do my best to partner with God and build His kingdom, I don't want to spend it guarding borders. I'd like to spend it inviting people into the kingdom. Statements of faith don't do they. They're a modernistic endeavor that I'm not the least bit interested in."<BR/><BR/>Well in light of scripture none of what Jones has to say really holds water. Simply saying evryone who loves and "follows" Jesus raises the question "which Jesus?" the one our culture has invented or the one who said things like: "Unless you repent you will likewise perish."? <BR/><BR/>And as for not making statements of faith, this flies right in the face of guarding the deposit. There is a faith once and for all delivered to the church it is to be kept, guarded as the apostle Paul says. Statement of faith are a fence around the deposit.R.S. Ladwighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13487404072546513179noreply@blogger.com