tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9638467.post1823307120615779365..comments2023-10-04T03:08:43.325-07:00Comments on can't find normal: The one function of the church...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03630892936483995921noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9638467.post-20743554972774511372007-12-17T08:56:00.000-08:002007-12-17T08:56:00.000-08:00haven't checked in for a while mike, sorry, i've b...haven't checked in for a while mike, sorry, i've been busy saving the world by writing papers no one will ever read. <BR/><BR/>i agree with bryce about macarthur. unfortunately what macarthur means is that he is going to guard his version of the truth, and even more unfortunately his method of preaching and guarding that truth ends up sacrificing much of what it takes to live an important part of that truth which is loving and humble dialogue on matters of interpretation.<BR/><BR/>i consider him a brother in the Lord, and a great preacher in many respects, but i wince at his approach to the world.Jon Couttshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01728055140831842717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9638467.post-60836324238381782972007-12-13T19:51:00.000-08:002007-12-13T19:51:00.000-08:00I think anytime people zero in on any one of the C...I think anytime people zero in on any one of the Church's purposes it becomes dangerous. The Church is not soley about doctrine, just as it is not soley about evangelism, or about discipleship, or even about feeding the poor. The Church is more wholistic and beautiful than any one of these dimensions alone can articulate. <BR/><BR/>The Church should care about truth but interetingly, throughout history, the most horrible things the Church has done have been in the name of truth (inquisitions, buring of 'heretics,' house arrest of Galileo, crusades, etc.).<BR/><BR/>If the Church becomes solely focused at what it believes at the expense of what it is called to do, it simply has lost it way. However, the opposite is also true as orthodoxy (right belief) always leads to orthopraxy (right practice).Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04848446542370149924noreply@blogger.com