I believe that a monergistic form of brethrenism is good for the church and is a vision that could greatly impact Scotland for the gospel. My vision for a Monergistic Brethrenism: A stress on the plurality of leadership. Brethrenism traditionally is very ‘un-hierarchical’ which means less bureaucracy and more freedom to ‘do church’ in a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Brethren Theology’
monergistic brethrenism
Posted in Practice, Theology, Uncategorized, tagged Brethren Theology, New Covenant Theology, The Church on February 25, 2010 | 5 Comments »
quickening the communion service part 3
Posted in Piety, Practice, tagged Brethren Theology, The Lord's Supper on February 9, 2010 | 18 Comments »
Some final suggestions: Sing Scripture. Imagine someone told you that a hymn book had been written by God himself. How eager would you be to get a copy and start using it? We have such a hymn book in the Psalms, yet we rarely, if ever, use it. I reject totally the argument which states [...]
quickening the communion service part 2
Posted in Piety, Practice, tagged Brethren Theology, The Lord's Supper on February 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Continuing from the earlier post: Stress God’s holiness. It is an awesome thing to take communion. Let a person examine himself commanded the apostle in 1 Cor. 11:28. Failure to do so may result in eating and drinking judgement upon ones’ self (v29, 30). A realisation that unworthy eating may result in your premature death [...]
quickening the communion service part 1
Posted in Piety, Practice, Uncategorized, tagged Brethren Theology, The Lord's Supper on February 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
In my last post, I extolled the virtues of the brethren communion service. I love the communion service; it’s the high point of my Sunday. But there’s no getting away from the fact that sometimes it can be murder (Glaswegian parlance for hard going.) In my next two posts, I’ll offer some suggestions that would [...]
brethren communion services
Posted in Piety, Practice, tagged Brethren Theology, The Lord's Supper on February 6, 2010 | 24 Comments »
Something central to the piety and practice of brethren churches has been the communion service. Mostly, these services are held weekly and revolve around the Lord’s Supper. As tradition normally would have it, the ‘elements’ (bread and wine/grape juice) are placed on a table in the middle of a room with four sections of seating, [...]
brethren dudes, gundry, ntw and imputation
Posted in Theology, tagged Brethren Theology, Justification, Reformed Theology on January 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Over the last weeks and months, I’ve posted arguments in favour of the imputation of Christ’s active obedience as a biblical doctrine. I suppose that, if I’m being honest, I’ve done so while harbouring serious doubts as to the exegetical credibility of the doctrine. It seems to make sense in the systematic theological and pastoral [...]
