Image by milos.kravcik via FlickrI've been listening to a great series on Presbyterian Ecclesiology* and I thought I'd link to it for your benefit.
While I would differ on a few points here and there from Rev. Morecraft, I find the series quite instructive overall. So far, he has done a smash up job explaining how the church is to be connectional in nature and that each local church is to be ruled by a plurality of elders (rather than by one professional pastor). I look forward to getting through all 22 of the lectures.
What I most enjoy is how he walks through the Scriptures pertaining to his points. I remember when I was being examined for the ministry: One of the questions I was asked was, "Why are you a Presbyterian?" The texts that Morecraft cites do a fine job summing up why.
*Ecclesiology is just the fancy word for "the study of the church."
While I would differ on a few points here and there from Rev. Morecraft, I find the series quite instructive overall. So far, he has done a smash up job explaining how the church is to be connectional in nature and that each local church is to be ruled by a plurality of elders (rather than by one professional pastor). I look forward to getting through all 22 of the lectures.
What I most enjoy is how he walks through the Scriptures pertaining to his points. I remember when I was being examined for the ministry: One of the questions I was asked was, "Why are you a Presbyterian?" The texts that Morecraft cites do a fine job summing up why.
*Ecclesiology is just the fancy word for "the study of the church."
4 comments:
Oh, good! Yet another post glorifying and promoting a denomination rather than Jesus. Well done! Just like Jesus and the apostles did! Another post glorifying and promoting a specific doctrine rather than the Scriptures. This is that which helps to divide the body of Jesus.
You obviously have not listened to the lectures.
When I listen to or read sermons by Edwards or Knox or Whitefield or Spurgeon or Chrysostom, etc., one does not find them glorying in Congregationalism or Presbyterianism or Anglicanism, etc., but in the cross. Other "pastors," though cannot seem to speak or write unless he is glorifying his denomination or catechism or doctrinal system. I suppose that is one big difference between those whom we view as great Christians and those who are seen merely as good denominationalists.
Much Reverend, would you again judge your brothers? It seems from the few that I have listened to, that the Reverend Moorcraft begins his "sermon" by reading from a book, and then he takes Bible verses to try to support the point that the book makes. It would be good to begin with the Bible and prove it true, rather than use the Bible as a tool to attempt to prove a denominational doctrine true.
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