By Mike Willis In recent years, several major publications among our liberal brethren have issued a call for a new hermeneutic. The old hermeneutic is rejected. The restoration plea is castigated as backward looking and divisive. In calling for unity-in-diversity, the restoration plea is thrown aside. Several historians assert that there are two sides to the …
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By Vance . E. Trefethen Fellowship. Had I wanted to debate fellowship, I would have put it in the proposition. Leadership and authority. The argument that leader-ship requires private decision-making for others is wrong. Many leaders (e.g., evangelists, Bible class teachers) don’t privately decide collective activity. The negative assumes leaders privately decide everything, and since elders …
By Roy H. Lanier, Jr. It has been puzzling to me as I read some of the new papers, magazines, and bulletins seen recently across our nation. Somehow I have been missing something. I cannot quite understand what is being said. Then it dawned on me that I was not using the right dictionary. When I …
By Tom Roberts The responsibility of the negative in a debate is to follow the affirmative and answer his arguments. I have done this and Vance’s proposition has failed. I will affirm a proposition in a second debate to be carried later in GOT. Fellowship: Vance labels as sinful the practice of elders making decisions. Will …
