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In the very earliest days of my CoC preaching I encountered a few old-timers who had come up in that era. From what I gathered it was indeed transitional. They loved the added services - more chances to preach. But what they really always wanted to talk about was how Gospel Meetings could go every n...

In liturgical churches he's quite a big deal. He is numbered among the first 7 deacons and has a feast on December 26. Also, my seminary professor had an entire unit on Acts 7.

I had a frustrating conversation with my father, a CoC minister, a couple of nights ago. He got off on some tangent about how the CoC had existed in England since the early 1600s and the American CoC was a continuation of that project. Utter crap. You can't claim every non-conformist English splinte...

Thanks for that response, Shane. I just learned today that the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod did eventually launch a translation project, so my other post is not totally accurate. They cooperated with the ELS (another Lutheran group) and a seminary to make a Bible. It is called the Evangelic...

I do. When I took Greek in Anglican seminary the introductory course used some materials by a CoC guy out of Pennsylvania whose name I cannot recall. I know a fellow who has been living in L.A. for 4 or 5 years who studied Biblical language at a real college in the Illinois state system. And there w...

The Jesus of Nazareth trilogy by Joseph Ratzinger.

To make a halfway decent Bible translation you need a commitee, which sounds suspiciously like an institution. Between the general disdain for organization and the pool of qualified translators not amounting to more than half a dozen men, a Bible translation could never emerge from the NI wing.

agricola wrote: ↑Wed Apr 12, 2023 2:38 pm I don't actually think the CoC knows enough about normal Christianity to know WHERE they fit, and therefore they grab ideas from totally opposed actual theological SCHOOLS.

This is exactly the point I wanted to make. Thank you.

I used to do some radio preaching on 93.something out of Pikeville, KY. The Baptist Bible hour was on immediately before my church's 1/2 hour show. It was produced by some Primitive Baptists from Cincinnati. The expectation was that if the CoC show wasn't pretaped, whoever was going to be on that mo...

Welcome! My kin finally stopped pressuring me to go about 3 years ago. Of course, I am ordained in another denomination and wear a collar to Sunday service regardless of the church I'm at. Can you imagine a person showing up to a CoC in a clergy collar?