Sorry Blake, but I think you and I are wasting our time. You can't seem to help that you are arguing out of a Baptist or maybe Anabaptist context which does not at all fit my theological context. Even your most recent post can't help but quote only rather conservative Baptist authors as the backing for your argument.
Stetzer and McKnight aren't authorities for me and weren't when I was still a progressive American Baptist rather than a progressive Methodist. Their conservative brand of Baptist never appealed to me much.
Your notion that orthodoxy and orthopraxy are a false dichotomy sounds like it should be true. But I see a large swath of persons of evangelical faith groups who quite purposefully place orthodoxy as the highest ideal and deemphasize orthopraxy almost entirely. Yes, they should be false dichotomies but they are not in quite a few Christian faith groups where right belief is emphasized above right action almost exclusively.
Where are American churches headed in 20 years
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Re: Where are American churches headed in 20 years
by KeithE » Wed May 13, 2015 9:35 pm
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Re: Where are American churches headed in 20 years
by Blake » Wed May 13, 2015 11:35 pm
"But for our parts, to take a carnal weapon in our hands, or use the least violence, either to support or pull down the worst, or to set up or maintain the best of men, we look not upon it to be our duty in the least..."
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Re: Where are American churches headed in 20 years
by KeithE » Thu May 14, 2015 8:22 am
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Re: Where are American churches headed in 20 years
by Blake » Thu May 14, 2015 9:11 am
"But for our parts, to take a carnal weapon in our hands, or use the least violence, either to support or pull down the worst, or to set up or maintain the best of men, we look not upon it to be our duty in the least..."
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Re: Where are American churches headed in 20 years
by Blake » Thu May 14, 2015 12:20 pm
"But for our parts, to take a carnal weapon in our hands, or use the least violence, either to support or pull down the worst, or to set up or maintain the best of men, we look not upon it to be our duty in the least..."
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Re: Where are American churches headed in 20 years
by Blake » Sun May 24, 2015 11:58 pm
"But for our parts, to take a carnal weapon in our hands, or use the least violence, either to support or pull down the worst, or to set up or maintain the best of men, we look not upon it to be our duty in the least..."
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Re: Where are American churches headed in 20 years
by KeithE » Mon May 25, 2015 7:23 am
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