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    The heart of the Gospel and the "civil magistrate"

    If the Church's answer to the world's sin and corruption is an "other-directed" mentality, a community of selfless love, and if that's the foundation of the kingdom of God, and we, the Church, are the beginning of it, what sort of filter is that for how we ought to view the ways in which the...
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    Christian Ethics... chat?

    I am currently a regular on Undernet IRC. I am starting an new channel for chat on Christian Ethics, in #ethics. The focus is particularly on ethics in the vein of theologians/ethicists such as John H. Yoder, Deitrich Bonhoeffer, Karl Barth, Stanely Hauerwas, William Willimon, Philip Kenneson...
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    Renounciation

    As Christians we often make many claims and pronounciations regarding what we believe and why we believe it. However, there is also a lot of precedence in the historical life of the Church for renouncing various things. For example, in baptism, many liturgies "renounce Satan and all his...
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    Why not Semper Reformantis?

    Why not Semper Reformantis? I'm not asking a Latin question (even if the question is partially in Latin). I'm asking why the Reformed Church ascribes to the semantics of "reformanda" and not "reformantis" ? If re-formation is possible, once the proverbial Pandora's box is opened, which...
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    Jan 5, anniversary of the execution of Felix Manz

    Unfortunately he is more remembered for his views on baptism, as though they were stand-alone, instead of his desire for a radically different, uncapitulating Church. In 2004, the Reformed Church in Zurich, where Manz was executed by "baptism", there was a reconcilliation service where the...
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    Christian Peacemaker Teams - please pray for Iraqi hostages

    Check out www.cpt.org. CPT comes out of some western Mennonites denominations. A church local to me (who I hear have been considering joining a Bretheren denomination) has an elder who's mother is currently negotiating with the Swords of Truth Brigade (I think its called) for the release of the...
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    Satan and Advent, an idea for chronology?

    While reading Advent texts since the season began my ideas about the so-called "Fall of Heaven" were challenged. When I read the text in the Revelation to John regarding the Dragon and the Woman I began to rethink Satan's position chronologically. The story of the Dragon and the Woman is...
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    Laid aside his crown

    Jesus laid aside his crown and became a helpless baby, to a poor family, in a country politically unimportant in its day, a country which barely worshipped a little-known God. He had no power or authority by which the world could be turned back to God through politics, military might or...
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    Remembering my experience with a Nazarene church

    When I was quite young my father took our family to a Nazarene church. If I recall correctly, Nazarenes have a doctrine by which they believe that once you "are saved" you are fully enabled for a sinless life. Is my memory correct? If this is not the case, the rest of this post is moot. At any...
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    Nationalism & Idolatry

    If we hope in government, arms, political sway and economic funding (and certainly if to accomplish a life not called for by the Gospel) and we spend so much time studying and being involved in such processes, is not at least a portion of our hope in something other than God? Is this not keeping...
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    Any Ekklesia Project members? fans?

    Just curious.
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    Who celebrates Advent?

    its all in the title :)
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    A place for post-liberal/narrative/neo-orthodox discussion?

    What's the proper area for this on christianforums? (As a side note, I do not mean "emerging church" theology. This is often mistaken as being similar)
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    Lumping Baptists and Anabaptists togther?

    I'm just curious why anyone would lump Baptists and Anabaptists together? While the name is similar and a few ideas regarding baptism are the same, they have very different histories and very different ecclesiologies (and so different soteriologies). On the whole, they even see baptism quite...
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