Chris Ellis's dictionary entry, posted to the list a week ago, looks to me to be an excellent summary of Baptist attitudes and approaches to worship. It is...
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Nathan Nettleton
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May 17, 2000 2:40 am
Dear Friends, We seem to have gone all shy and quiet again on this list! One of the issues that came up in discussion at the Congress has just been brought...
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Raymond Hobbs
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May 17, 2000 12:52 pm
Dear Colleagues: I think Nathan has an important topic for discussion and action here. I do not have time to respond at this time, but will do so in more...
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rhreynolds@...
May 19, 2000 11:55 am
I think a mor proper question is the open closed communion idea...if some one is not a member of your church do you still let them partake? What do you do with...
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Charles Roberts
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Jun 5, 2000 5:38 pm
Greetings to everyone. I met Nathan, this group's moderator, in another e-group that discusses worship issues - [liturgy-l]. That group is made up primarily of...
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Charles Roberts
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Jun 5, 2000 5:58 pm
Even though I have just joined the group, I'm going to toss a rock in the pond to see what kind of ripples result. Frank Senn, a Lutheran pastor and author of...
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Nathan Nettleton
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Jun 5, 2000 11:39 pm
... I think the answer is undoubtedly Yes, but I'm not so sure that that is ... While I think he is identifying a real problem, I think there is also a ...
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Di Shearer
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Jun 7, 2000 11:06 am
Hi, Nathan, Graham and others, (I've had a little trouble working out how to reply to an egroups message from an alternative email while I'm in Brisbane. But...
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Anne Bartlett
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Jun 7, 2000 12:51 pm
Change of address for Russell Bartlett rbartlett@... NB Not rbartlett@......
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Vaughn CroweTipton
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Jun 7, 2000 2:19 pm
I'm going to fall on the other side of the fence on this one. My experience and theology both point me to a distinction between worship and evangelism. Without...
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Nathan Nettleton
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Jun 8, 2000 1:32 am
... I want to endorse all this and then add a big BUT. I think the distinction is valid and important and I think the way Vaughn illustrated it from his...
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Neilson
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Jun 8, 2000 3:30 am
I write as a layperson. I have been following the discussion on worship an find it interesting and challenging. One of the problems is finding a real...
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Charles Roberts
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Jun 8, 2000 2:28 pm
... worship God and who complain ... us? Please allow me to quote directly from a book I've had for a few years entitled, "FaithQuakes" by Leonard Sweet. "Evil...
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Vaughn CroweTipton
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Jun 8, 2000 3:32 pm
Nathan, I agree with your response. Without doing too much backtracking, my intent was to make distinction between the two but not to say that they are ...
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Garry Deverell
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Jun 10, 2000 3:44 am
Dear Baptist colleagues A small contribution to the conversation on worship and evangelism, this time from the angle of homiletics. When Paul wrote to the...
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Psheppyjlg@...
Jun 10, 2000 5:21 am
I have been away leading a retreat and returned to find this marvellous discussion going on. Here is my pennyworth. How about1 Corinthians 11? - "As often as...
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Nathan Nettleton
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Jun 16, 2000 12:08 pm
I'm interested in pushing our discussion of worship and evangelism in a new direction. On another discussion list I have been following reports of this month's...
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Psheppyjlg@...
Jun 17, 2000 5:08 am
Dear Nathan, I have just returned from George Beasley-Murray's memorial service. During that event much was made of George's evangelistic practice when he was...
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Raymond Hobbs
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Jun 17, 2000 2:22 pm
Paul: I think these are excellent points, and highlight the importance of narrative and the power of story in both coming to faith, and faith development....
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Garry Deverell
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Jun 30, 2000 3:03 am
Hi everyone ... Although I can see what Nathan is getting at, I'm not sure that it is actually possible to create events in which 'the gospel is presented'...
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Psheppyjlg@...
Jun 30, 2000 8:34 am
Garry makes some useful comments about how we shape worship for all-comers, and yet I can certainly conceive of situations which are not worship events where...
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Nathan Nettleton
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Jul 17, 2000 5:11 am
I don't particularly want to spark a discussion about the perceived rights and wrongs of homosexual practice (even if it might be a way of sparking this list...
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Raymond Hobbs
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Jul 17, 2000 12:18 pm
Nathan: A very topic for discussion, especially in these times. I know of several Baptist congregations here in Canada, in the US and in Europe who are now...
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V.G.Lumpkin
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Jul 17, 2000 1:05 pm
I think your point is well made, but it seems to me, this type of thinking is more relevant to sacramental theology than ordinance theology. In an ordinance ...
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Raymond Hobbs
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Jul 17, 2000 1:11 pm
Vicki: You are right, it does not belong in an 'ordinance theology', but I have the sneaking suspicion that such a distinction between sacramental and...
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Alec Gilmore
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Jul 17, 2000 9:49 pm
I have come across two useful Research Bibliographies, one on Liturgics and the other on Homiletics, compiled by Robert R Howard at Vanderbilt, and with his...
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Nathan Nettleton
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Jul 18, 2000 1:44 am
... I don't want to close off the "blessings" thread, but this useful distinction could initiate a parallel conversation. Thanks for making it Vicki, and good...
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Psheppyjlg@...
Jul 18, 2000 5:39 am
Nathan, What a good discussion to wake up to! Like you I am intrigue by Chris Ellis's attempt to close down the distinction between ordinance and sacrament -...
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Nathan Nettleton
nathan@...
Jul 21, 2000 7:50 am
... There seem to be several models for understanding the process of blessing. I think that the tradition that asserts that we bless God for the gifts would...
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Nathan Nettleton
nathan@...
Jul 25, 2000 12:11 pm
Dear Friends, Back at the beginning of the year, a number of you offered some helpful feedback on an attempt I'd made (for my students) to provide a broad ...
