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Ecclesiology church potluck

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  • Ecclesiology church potluck

    What is your favorite church doctrine of you fellowship(s)?
    I am become death...

  • #2
    It would have to be salvation through repentance from sin and faith in the Lord Jesus.
    When I Survey....

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Faber View Post
      It would have to be salvation through repentance from sin and faith in the Lord Jesus.
      And Grace, which is sufficient for even me.
      The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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      • #4
        The Filioque! I've just always found it so comforting in my walk with God to know that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son as from the same source

        ... ok, not really, but I had a friend in college who used to joke about that.
        Don't call it a comeback. It's a riposte.

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        • #5
          One baptism for the remission of sins.
          "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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          • #6
            Maybe I should have said that makes it at least slightly unique among Christian fellowships.
            I am become death...

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Ana Dragule View Post
              Maybe I should have said that makes it at least slightly unique among Christian fellowships.
              In that vein, I'm a fan of modern Catholic Mariology, in which doctrine about the Blessed Virgin is understood as being closely related to our understanding of the destiny of the Church.
              Don't call it a comeback. It's a riposte.

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              • #8
                In terms of 'distinctives,' I'd say that I appreciate a healthy evangelical ecclesiology. Viewing Baptists, Presbyterians, Roman Catholics, Orthodox, etc., as full-fledged brothers and sisters, whose riches belong to all of us - there's something very freeing in not having to view them as 'rivals,' or seeing all their customary distinctives as inherently 'other.'
                "The Jesus Christ who saves sinners is the same Christ who beckons his followers to serious use of their minds for serious explorations of the world." - Mark Noll

                "It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading." - John Wesley

                "Wherever men are still theological, there is still some chance of their being logical." - G. K. Chesterton

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