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Jenson
Metropolitan Tabernacle, UK

What? Are you serious? This is the person you speak of main reason for attending services?

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Adam - Pennsylvania - Baptist

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Jenson, I get the idea you're fishing for something here. Stop beating about the bush. Say what's on your mind. What is it you really want to know?

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Bob Vigneault C.O.L, L.E., G.E, Dr.O.P., O.U.T.
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Deacon/Christ Presbyterian Church, Janesville, WI OPC www.christ-opc.org

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If one attends services for this reason in unrepentance, then I would say it is unusual for a Christian who believes in the confessions, yes.

Jenson, stop trying to get me kicked off the PB!



kidding...

Are you asking about whether a worldly lifestyle can be reconciled with subscription to a confession, or whether a worldly lifestyle can be reconciled with membership of this board (which in turn requires subscription to a confession) ??

JH

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Jonathan Hunt

Elder holding forth the word of life at:
Cheltenham Evangelical Free Church (Confessionally Based)
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
-- Thomas Elsworth

Thanks for chiming in Jonathan, I was wondering if he was describing you. I figured because you both live in England that you must know each other. :P (I'm kidding!)

We do know each other...

Used to be members of the same church.

Sanctification is progressive, so if I don't want to get kicked off, I'm obligated to say yes they can, or reveal that I'm really a lurking perfectionist!:bigsmile::bigsmile:

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Meg
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Could you be more specific? What activities are you refering to on the PB?

I agree with you assessment that some of Reformed spirituality today is waining into a dead orthodoxy, though I'm not sure they are completely dead yet. I think it is because we have lost our heritage, particularly the Puritan heritage of experimentally applying the truths of God to daily living (and which I think the PB is also trying to recapture). I think that the renewed interest in Puritan literature today among Reformed folk is providing some renewal in this area. I think we won't understand the full effects of it til later though.

[Edited on 5-24-2005 by puritansailor]

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MDiv, RTS Jackson
Pastor, Grace Presbyterian Church (OPC), Lisbon, NY

"He does well, that discourses of Christ; but he does infinitely better, that by experimental knowledge, feeds and lives on Christ." Thomas Brooks.
"Let us not please ourselves that we have deep understandings, but let us shew our understandings by our practice." Richard Sibbes

Yeah...that pesky heavy metal...condeming me to hell, I tell ya.

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Christ Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church, RPCGA
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It is God that multiplies our sorrows.... God, as a righteous Judge, does it, which ought to silence us under all our sorrows; as many as they are, we have deserved them all, and more: nay, God, as a tender Father, does it for our necessary correction, that we may be humbled for sin, and weaned from the world by all our sorrows; and the good we get by them, with the comfort we have under them, will abundantly balance our sorrows, how greatly soever they are multiplied. - Matthew Henry

I agree with you, Patrick. I think also that this decline in spirituality is due to a lack of meditation, contemplation, thinking on the truths of Scripture, so that they are made alive in the affections of the believer by the Spirit of God.

And communion with the God. I once heard a man say, "communion is what sweetens the doctrines to our souls". For many, Christ is merely a doctrine. Thus, it becomes easy to hide the desires of hell behind a pious form. I have found this to be the case in reformed and non-reformed churches alike, even in my own life. Anyone can regulate what they do, not so easy to regulate what you love.

Greetings to Jenson and Jonathan, my old Tabernacle buddies.

[Edited on 5-25-2005 by Peters]

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Marcos Peters
Twynholm Baptist Church (FIEC)
London England

[i]For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and to a blazing fire, and to darkness and gloom and whirlwind, and to the blast of a trumpet and the sound of words which sound was such that those who heard begged that no further word be spoken to them. For they could not bear the command, "IF EVEN A BEAST TOUCHES THE MOUNTAIN, IT WILL BE STONED." And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, "I AM FULL OF FEAR and trembling." But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel. [b]Hebrews 12:18-24[/b][/i]

Very true. The Puritans wer emasters of this. I fail at this every day.... Oh for more grace!