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It’s Back… Musical Instruments in Worship
Answering the Church of Christ | August 6th 2008 by Nathan
I remember my first visit to a no musical instruments in worship church of Christ several years ago. I was new to a certain city, and was visiting churches, looking for a church home. This particular church of Christ looked nice enough. On Sund read more
What Does Johnny Robertson Say - Part II
Answering the Church of Christ | August 3rd 2008 by Nathan
Watched “What Does the Bible Say?”, tonight, and feel like I need to respond, since words written on this blog were brought up. On his broadcast, hyperconservative church of Christ TV host Johnny Robertson showed a quote from Chris Kni read more
Sunday, August 3 - Prayer Day for Johnny, Norm and James - Part I…
Answering the Church of Christ | August 2nd 2008 by Nathan
As happened back at the beginning of June, recent events here have convicted me again to not allow this blog to degenerate because of the wild postings of a rambling man. It is not what the blog is supposed to be, and it is not what I want it to be read more
Why Are You In A Church That’s Not In The Bible?
Answering the Church of Christ | July 28th 2008 by Nathan
The title of this post is a question that hyperconservative churches of Christ (like the 3 TV hosts) love to ask. The implication to their question is that they (the hypercons) are not just in a church that is in the Bible, but that they are in t read more
Romans 10:5-13
Answering the Church of Christ | July 25th 2008 by Nathan
From my Scripture reading this morning. What an encouraging passage of Scripture! Moses describes in this way the righteousness that is by the law: “The man who does these things will live by them.” But the righteousness that is by f read more
Interesting Local cofC Blogging Development…
Answering the Church of Christ | July 25th 2008 by Nathan
Visit local church of Christ TV host Norm Field’s blog here for an interesting development. Norm has removed the URLs to Johnny Robertson’s and James Oldfield’s blogs (fellow hyperconservative church of Christ TV hosts) from his read more
Spiritual Gifts
Answering the Church of Christ | July 14th 2008 by Nathan
Do they exist today, or were they only for a certain time and then ceased? Discuss. (This conversation was started on another place on this blog. To get caught up, you can visit that place here.) read more
Eternal Security
Answering the Church of Christ | July 9th 2008 by Nathan
Eternal Security, or Perseverance of the saints, maintains that none who are truly saved can be condemned for their sins or finally fall away from the faith. Discuss. By the way - please avoid cutting and pasting arguments of other writers fr read more
Some Interesting Links
Answering the Church of Christ | July 6th 2008 by Nathan
My recent online wanderings have led me to a couple of interesting church of Christ related websites. First, is Journey to Orthodoxy. This is a blog by Nathan Lee Lewis, who was formerly Southern Baptist, but has since become Orthodox Christian. read more
Churches of Christ and the Emerging Church
Answering the Church of Christ | June 30th 2008 by Nathan
Believe it or not, I have found several blogs of people in the churches of Christ who are trying to figure out this new movement called “the Emerging Church”. Personally, I’m not completely sold on the Emerging Church, but I do t read more
My “Aha!” Moment
Answering the Church of Christ | June 21st 2008 by Nathan
I had an “Aha!” moment just now. No, not that kind of “Aha!” moment. You know, like a “Eureka!” moment. Or an “Of Course!” moment. Let me explain. A few minutes ago, I was walking past a house on read more
Christian Unity
Answering the Church of Christ | June 19th 2008 by Nathan
This looks like an interesting blog from a church of Christ elder from Georgia, Alan Rouse. The title of the blog is “Christian Unity”, and it seems that, unlike the hyperconservatives in our area, when he says “unity” he do read more
For those who didn’t grow up in a church named “church of Chr…
Answering the Church of Christ | June 14th 2008 by Nathan
If you are trying to understand where these folks are coming from, I would highly recommend spending some time on the ex-church of Christ website - especially in the “Church of Christ: Doctrine & Culture” board. There are some insig read more
The DVD That Wasn’t Seen
Answering the Church of Christ | June 10th 2008 by Nathan
In case you were wondering what was on that DVD that Chris didn’t show on Sunday night, he has uploaded it to the internet and given us permission to embed it here for your viewing pleasure. You can comment here, or directly to Chris over at hi read more
Make Sure to Watch for Chris Knight Sunday Night
Answering the Church of Christ | June 7th 2008 by Nathan
For those of you in the WGSR viewing area, Chris Knight is supposed to be on Sunday night at 8:00 for 25 minutes. Charles Roark has apparently offered Chris 25 minutes to give his position regarding Johnny Robertson and their recent encounter outsi read more
Another Church of Christ website that I would recommend
Answering the Church of Christ | June 7th 2008 by Nathan
If you are interested in the discussions we’ve been raising about the teachings of Johnny, James, and Norm, then you might be interested in Al Maxey’s website, which contains some pretty good debates and discussions. read more
A Knight’s Tale - Chris Knight Engages JR
Answering the Church of Christ | June 2nd 2008 by Nathan
After a few days of Johnny Robertson badgering Chris Knight on this blog regarding this post on Chris’s blog, Chris decided to take Johnny at his word and debate. He loaded up his video camera and drove down to the TV studio where “Wha read more
Sunday, June 1 - Prayer Day for Johnny, Norm and James
Answering the Church of Christ | May 30th 2008 by Nathan
I’ve been feeling convicted recently about this blog, and what it could become. And what I don’t want it to become. When the subjects of the blog are people who seem to revel in stirring things up and getting people riled up (regardless read more
A Bit of Real-time Discussion
Answering the Church of Christ | May 26th 2008 by Nathan
“faithful” quoted Matthew 11:16-19: “But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have read more
An interesting video from a former CofC person
Answering the Church of Christ | May 16th 2008 by Nathan
Thanks to Katherine for the heads up on this video. Thoughts? read more
Denominations and the “churches of Christ”
Answering the Church of Christ | May 10th 2008 by Nathan
If you are in a denomination, you are out of luck. People in hyperconservative churches of Christ say that denominations are not in the Bible, and you can’t be saved in a church that is not in the Bible. But here’s the problem… the read more
Televised Ministry Sensationalism Part II
Answering the Church of Christ | May 4th 2008 by Nathan
Here is another example of this tactic used by these men. This time around it is James Oldfield. read more
Televised Ministry Sensationalism - It Could Happen to You!
Answering the Church of Christ | May 3rd 2008 by Nathan
Televised ministry sensationalism… this is the hyperconservative Church of Christ answer to Jerry Springer or the sensationalist episodes of Dateline NBC. I was watching a televised ministry sensationalist clip on youtube recently where Johnny read more
Johnny’s Last Post
Answering the Church of Christ | May 2nd 2008 by Nathan
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. Colossians 4:6 Since this blog is dedicated to discussing the teachings of Church of Christ TV personalities Johnny Robertson, Norm Fields a read more
The Scriptural Relationship between Faith, Belief and Salvation
Answering the Church of Christ | April 22nd 2008 by Nathan
Said to me by another hyperconservative Church of Christ preacher on a different internet site: “I have no problem saying that according to the Scriptures you are not a Christian and you are in the wrong church.” My response: You won̵ read more
Norm and Mark visit a Baptist Church
Answering the Church of Christ | April 17th 2008 by Nathan
I just received this message from (I assume) the pastor of Vandola Baptist in Danville. It is a first hand testimony of what happens when one of our three hosts pays your church a visit. “Our church, Vandola Baptist in Danville, was visite read more
An Interesting Take on the Baptism Issue
Answering the Church of Christ | April 16th 2008 by Nathan
In my daily wanderings-around, I found the following comment regarding baptism which I had never heard before. I’d be interested in other’s opinions on this comment: “I grew up in the Church of Christ. It does not “remain si read more
The Holy Kiss - A Command, or Not?
Answering the Church of Christ | April 3rd 2008 by Nathan
From wikipedia. The holy kiss is a traditional Christian greeting. The term comes from the New Testament, where it appears five times. Farewell of Saints Peter and Paul, showing the Apostles giving each other the holy kiss before their read more
Dress to Impress
Answering the Church of Christ | March 31st 2008 by Nathan
Chris Knight, over at theknightshift.blogspot.com, reports that Johnny spent some time on Sunday night’s broadcast talking about how important it is for people to “dress nice” for church. I recently read this great story dealing w read more
A Great Article from churchesofchrist.wordpress.com
Answering the Church of Christ | March 24th 2008 by Nathan
The guys at churchesofchrist.wordpress.com have written a great article dealing with the unscriptural exclusiveness of folks like Johnny Robertson, Norm Fields and James Oldfield. Go over and take a look! Here’s the link. read more
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