21/01/2006

  • Three Things on my mind


    1.  I got my quarterly sinus/strep infection this week.  Stuffy head, scratchy and tickly throat; weaker voice (I'm softspoken anyway...don't need any weaker voice); headaches.  On top of that, the doctor gives me antibiotic and cough syrup.  The antibiotic is fine, but the cough syrup has some type of narc in it.  It leaves me in a weak stupor when I take it.  Stayed home from work yesterday.


    2.  It boggles me how loose professionalism is becoming in correspondence especially e-mail.  A recruiter or salesman, unknown to me, e-mails me out of the blue and immediately starts addressing me by my first name and uses a comma instead of a colon.  That in effect says that he and I have an established relationship and on a personal, non-professional level.  Hello??!!!  I know what I want to say in return, but I have to exercise self-control and say the charitable thing for the sake of Christ.


    3.  As I exhorted my close friend Dave, I exhort all who care about passionate, sound worship to stay away from those teachers and theologians of the IPW (Informed Principle of Worship) such as John Frame, Steve Schlissel, and others.  (Unfortunately, my church home CLC has 2 of Frame's books.)  The IPW is a defection from the Reformed distinctive of worship (The Regulative Principle of Worship), is heading toward heresy, and is thus going back to the harlot Church of Rome.   The Regulative Principle of Worship (which is a Reformed distinctive and the Scriptural principle of worship is bascially "We worship God not according to our preferences but according to His."  IOW, what does not have warrant from Scripture is not permitted in worship since God alone is perfect, knows how he is to be worshipped, and has revealed how in Scripture, which is entirely sufficient for salvation and equipping us for every good work..  Frame in his book "Worship in Spirit and Truth" is not consistent with his testimony on worship regarding his professedly fierce loyalty (and ordination vow) to the WCF, WSC, and WLC (which are some of the several Confessions define the Regulative Principle of Worship) on one hand; his historically confusing the Puritans and Presbyterians; and his open rejection of the aforementioned Standards, whether in part or in whole, on the other hand. (That would also call into question the integrity of the ecclesiastical courts of his denomination since loyalty to the WCF, WSC, and WLC is an explicity ordination vow.) Schlissel, unlike Frame, does not contradict himself (or his ordination vows), not misrepresent the Puritans or Presbyterians, and calls the "non-traditional" view accurately like it is (the IPW).


    WCF = Westminster Confession of Faith, WLC = Westminster Larger Catechism, WSC = Westminster Smaller Catechism

Comments (3)

  • Yep, better not add cymbals, harp and lute like it says in the psalms... lol

  • Indeed, we don't want to bring back the OT sacrifices and their trappings (instrumentation, etc.), which were done away with in Christ as it says in the Gospel and in Hebrews. :)

  • Yep I remember that's what they used to say at FRC and I was pretty into it. But as I've thought more it seems harder to buy into it. Funny thing is it says the sabbath is fulfilled in Christ, yet that isn't done away with... ah but the sabbath=>Christ isn't the temple... well this is one of those things where I've had to drop the big explanations, as you can see on that last post I had. Well I am still a big fan of the doctrines of grace though, it really is the way we are saved :) Although Andrew Bain takes things way to far, anyone disagreeing with him in any smallest point is a total unbelieving God hater, lol... that's kinda whaked :)

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