Technically you are a neocon:
As a term, neoconservative first was used derisively by democratic socialist Michael Harrington to identify a group of people (who described themselves as liberals) as newly stimulated conservative ex-liberals. The idea that liberalism "no longer knew what it was talking about" is neoconservatism's central theme.

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For the sake of the Name,

John Hill
Faith Community - Woodstock, Ga
Adopted. Husband for 12 years. Father of 5 children.
http://faithcommunitychurch.org- My home church
Rocky Top, you'll always be, home sweet home to me.

I think it might be possible. (Look at the church in Acts) But I also think that it is rare.

In my experience, 'home churching' always lacks the following:

As I said it might be possible to have a church with membership, officers, tithes and offerings for the pastor, censure and government that simply meets in a person's home instead of a church building. However, I have never seen or heard of it being done for long.

I could go on but I am afraid I have already gone enough.

If anybody has questions about the home church movement feel free to PM me.

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Over the past 12 months or so I've become increasingly Christocentric in my understanding of the world, Bible, life, marriage, etc. This was started by reading Owen Volume 1 (Declaration of the Glorious Mystery of the Person of Christ and Meditations), put into fuller expression through a lesson I taught at my old church, and then exploded through my studying of John and the nature of Christian philosophy. Simply put, I've begun to see how all things were made "through and for" Christ.

Over the past 6 months I've become a mild theonomist.

Over the last month or two, I've increasingly been focusing on my heart being affected by these glorious truths in the Scriptures. I've particularly started focusing on understanding the nature of the union between Christ and this church and seeing it's centrality in Scripture's teaching. For example, while I've held Particular Redemption for a while, I've recently (as in the last week) been so deeply affected by the glory of this truth! My heart soars in worship to God when I study and learn this doctrine more fully. So, I imagine all this could be said that my theology has become increasingly more experiential (or experimental, as Owen and Edwards impress).

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Jacob
Sovereign Grace Ministries
Covenant Fellowship Church
West Chester, PA

"Grace renews nature; glory perfects grace." ~ John Owen
Blog - The Strasbourg Inn

IMO no; since the Confession has a chapter on "The Church", and demands that a Christian attend public worship and be subject to church discipline.

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Daniel Ritchie
Saintfield, Northern Ireland - Queen's University, Belfast:History/Politics
Member of Dromara Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland (Covenanter)

From Scofield-carrying dispy to 5 pointer.
From cesationist to ... maybe.
Am currently working through the regulatory principle (and agree in theory?).
Gained an appreciation for theonomy.
I don't think I'll be moving from pre-mill, paedo.
From Dunkin Donuts to Starbucks to WaWa.
From Army to Navy.

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Jim Harris
Member, Elsborgskyrkan
Falun, Sweden

Rough Chronological order -

(beautifull spring of 2002)
The Lord drew me to himself -
I started to attend my old Assemblies of God Church -

(2003)
From charismatic to cessationist

(early 2004)
Left the Assemblies of God Church I grew up in
Started reading a sermon by
From Arminianism to 5 point Calvinism
Started to attend an OPC church.
Convinced of the RPW
Started to become convinced of keeping the lords day.

(early 2006)
Became Amill over and against dispy premillenial in New member class
Became Convinced of Presbyterianism over and against independancy
Joined EOPC with my Wife and was baptized

Present - Considering EP

In re-calling all of these things I am moved to a greater appreciation of the Lord working in my life praise be to God for his work in all our lives!

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Josiah Lovett
Member of
Trinity OPC Bothell Wa.
Orthodox Presbyterian Church
Westminster Standards

One of the interesting commonalities of many of the posts in this thread is the way in which so many found that the doctrines of grace, particularly the particular atonement, caused them to give glory to God. As my pressure at work has increased over the last couple of years, knowing the sweetness of God's glorious message bubbles up in me in praise to our sovereign and gracious Lord.

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Dennis E. McFadden, Ex Mainline Baptist (in Remission)
Atherton Baptist Homes, CEO
First Baptist Church of Alhambra, Member, Transformation Ministries (CA)

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I was reminded of a couple more. I am now a sabbatarian. Before we were loosey goosey about that to borrow a term. I also believe wine should be used in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper. I think I for the most part now subscribe to the original Westminster Confession.

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Traci
Lynnwood OPC
Psalm 52:8-9
8 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
9 I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.

I was appointed to a church office in 2007. Eldership is the only office with a requirement that it not be for a young believer. My church's situation is also not ideal; so yes, they're scraping the bottom of the barrel with me. They also made me a Sunday School teacher, but the Lord has grown me up in knowledge quickly. Wisdom.... well... working on that part.

"There is not so great a fool as a knowing fool..."

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Andrew DeShazo, Deacon, Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, Memphis, TN
"All of us stumble in many ways, but if anyone is never at fault in what he says, then he is mature, able to control his whole body."(James 3:2)

Last big change happened some time in 1994:

• Returned to the AV after a 20-year fling with the NASB.
• Became EP.

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~Jay~
Husband of ENS, father of J II. | Indian Trail, NC
Currently disabled due to health issues
Communicant Member, Precentor | Presbyterian Reformed Church of Charlotte, NC | Presbyterian Reformed Church

O.K. Govols - I am not a liberal who slithered into the conservative camp!!

Quote "democratic socialist Michael Harrington to identify a group of people (who described themselves as liberals) as newly stimulated conservative ex-liberals. The idea that liberalism "no longer knew what it was talking about" is neoconservatism's central theme."

The idea that liberalism no longer knew what it was talking about does not apply to me. Old-School liberals and new libs are both idiots and neither one of them knows what they are talking about.

I was a liberal because that is what the public schools are teaching our children and they did teach me that ungodly stuff. I used to be young dumb and stupid. God got ahold of me and turned me 180 degrees to denounce my idiot ways.

I am not a neo-con because, well, real conservatives understand.

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Timothy Johnson
First United Presbyterian of Moline
PCUSA (Yea, I know)
Theology/Philosophy Sunday School Teacher
Davenport, IA

Converted by God's grace from the Baha'i Faith to Evangelicalism - 1989
Embraced Literal Six (24-Hour) Day / Young Earth Creationism -1989
Embraced the Establishment Principle - 1990
Embraced theocracy (not theonomy) - 1990
Embraced the doctrines of grace / Reformed Faith - 1991
Embraced the original Westminster Confession of Faith - 1991
Embraced Presbyterian polity / baptism - 1991
Embraced the regulative principle of worship / a cappella exclusive psalmody - 1991
Embraced the Christian Sabbath / rejected man-made holy days - 1991
Embraced the use of wine (not grape juice) in the Lord's Supper - 1991
Embraced presuppositional apologetics - 1992
Embraced cessationism - 1992
Embrace postmillennialism - 1992
Embraced common grace - 1992
Embraced the majority text - 1992

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Andrew Myers
Husband of Jessica, Father of Jackson, Katie and Samuel
Member, Presbyterian Reformed Church of Northern Virginia
Warrenton, VA USA
Editor, The Matthew Poole Project

"Let your Morning Thoughts, and your last Evening Thoughts, be what shall become of you to all Eternity." -- Matthew Poole

1991 must have been the big year for you.

Thank you for that post. That was very encouraging to read.

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J. B. Atken
John Knox PCA
Layman, M.A. student at Louisiana College

What is Baha'i?

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Andrew DeShazo, Deacon, Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, Memphis, TN
"All of us stumble in many ways, but if anyone is never at fault in what he says, then he is mature, able to control his whole body."(James 3:2)

Soli Deo gloria! And semper reformanda.

Realized how little I know and how much there is to learn -- Daily

It is an Eastern religion founded in 19th century Persia.

Bahá'í Faith

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Andrew Myers
Husband of Jessica, Father of Jackson, Katie and Samuel
Member, Presbyterian Reformed Church of Northern Virginia
Warrenton, VA USA
Editor, The Matthew Poole Project

"Let your Morning Thoughts, and your last Evening Thoughts, be what shall become of you to all Eternity." -- Matthew Poole

Reminds me of a John Murray quote that I often take to heart. When asked why he didn't write as much in his younger days, he replied (paraphrase), "I didn't want to need to retract as much."

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J. B. Atken
John Knox PCA
Layman, M.A. student at Louisiana College

Bahá'Ã* Faith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Ivan Schoen, Pastor * Maranatha Baptist Church * Poplar Grove, Illinois USA www.maranatha-sbc.org/
“One of the most important discoveries I have ever made is this truth: God is most glorified in me when I am most satisfied in him. This is the motor that drives my ministry as a pastor. It affects everything I do.” --- Dr. John Piper

Indeed. Here is the full quote:

John Murray

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Andrew Myers
Husband of Jessica, Father of Jackson, Katie and Samuel
Member, Presbyterian Reformed Church of Northern Virginia
Warrenton, VA USA
Editor, The Matthew Poole Project

"Let your Morning Thoughts, and your last Evening Thoughts, be what shall become of you to all Eternity." -- Matthew Poole

I am not so sure I have had any real radical changes. I essentially still hold to the same things I did when I was a young Christian. Calvinistic, Covenantal, Amil, Baptist who holds to a strong liking for the KJV and Majority texts. I have been a member of a few Presbyterian Denominations. Love the Covenanter Spirit because I was a member of the RPCNA in the late 80's. I was introduced to a more systematic approach to theology through the Covenanters. But I have never been a Paedo Baptist even though I have studied the doctrine quite intently and understand its philosophical pull in theology.

I flirted with trying to understand Charismatics during the 80's but never found their arguments to hold water or be supported by Scripture. I truly credit my first Pastor for teaching me well and inoculating me with the truth so that I would remain faithful to the Scriptures. He was the one who informed me that I was a Calvinist when I didn't even know what one was. He was confessional and a truly Puritanical Pastor. God was very good to me when he placed me in Pastor Joe Gwyn's presence. He taught me to seek for a heart after God's own heart first and then to seek for wisdom. I developed a love for the Word of God first off and then for the writings of Good learned men who have led me in the way of life by their writings and Sermons.

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Harmony Baptist Church (Member)
PuritanCovenanter MSN Blog
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William Symington

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