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You’re St. Melito of Sardis! You have a great love of history and liturgy. You’re attached to the traditions of the ancients, yet you recognize that the old world — great as it was — is passing away. You are loyal to the customs of your family, though you do not hesitate to call family members to account for their sins. Find out which Church Father you are at The Way of the Fathers! |
This is the result of my test.
Steven Wedgeworth, of wedgewords blog, recently posted this comment on Blog and Mablog, Doug Wilson’s blog. I thought this comment captured the essence of the turmoil currently going on in the Reformed church world.
“Sectarianism is very comforting. It gives one great support to know that he is in the *true* church and all others are not. He doesn’t need to wrestle with tough questions, try understand Biblical texts, or even read historical theology. He’s safe.
But once one starts to consider the possibility that Athanasius or Gregory of Nazianzus might actually not be a heretic, that is when things get difficult. When one realizes that Augustine blurred sanctification and justification, and therefore the Reformation cannot possibly hope to claim for itself a represtination of Augustine on this point, that’s when it gets difficult.
One is forced to rethink all that he was taught by Banner of Truth and Soli Deo Gloria book intros. He is suddenly in a state of epistemological crisis. Can he really accept that things have not always been the way the authorities say they have been, and can he accept the even more challenging claim that important figures in Church history have been wrong?
Many cannot, and so Rome or TR-dom [”Truly Reformed” denomination] are ready opiates. It is certainly true that one can grow up within Rome or TR churches and not be so naive, but very often the converts to them are the most naive.
Wrestling with history and the future is the real challenge, and I suspect everyone will see defections throughout the course of our lives over this precise struggle.”
This is just a great insight. With the advent of the internet: blogging, forums, discussion list, etc., there is a lot of information getting out to the masses that was previously only accessible by a few. Because of this a certain “ideal” is now being challenged at the grass roots level.
Blessings in Christ,
Terry W. West
Some good friends of mine have started a new blog tilted, “Calvin and Calvinism”, to catalog primary source material relating to the debate concerning Calvin and the later “Calvinist”. You can access the blog by clicking on the link below:
I have also added it to my blogroll.
Blessings in Christ,
Terry W. West
P.S. If you would like to discuss the material found at Calvin and Calvinism blog, you are welcome to join us at Calvin and Calvinism Yahoo E-mail Group.
I found this while searching through some Google images. I would say that this is what we call an understatement.
The caption reads: “Sitting in a 3.8-meter sea kayak and watching a four-meter great white approach you is a fairly tense experience.”
I would say so! Wow.
Blessings in Christ,
Terry W. West
I found this quiz on Water From a Rock. Below are my results. I like Spider-man more than Superman, but I’ll take it…. 
Your results:
You are Superman
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You are mild-mannered, good, strong and you love to help others.  |
Click here to take the “Which Superhero are you?” quiz…
Blessings in Christ,
Terry W. West
Curios fly,
Vinegar jug:
Slippery edge,
Pickled bug.
By Clifford E. Sutton
“All praise to Him who now hath turned
My fears to joys, my sighs to song,
My tears to smiles, my sad to glad. Amen.”
Anne Bradstreet (A.D. 1612-1672)
We have a great new blog recently added to our family here at reformedblogs.com. It is called, “A Thinking Woman“. I just discovered it today. One of the post is titled, “The important questions in life…“. I am sure that you will find the questions as thought provoking as I did. To read the questions click here.
Blessings in Christ,
Terry W. West
I found this neat little quiz while blog surphing. Here are my results:
You scored as Evangelical Presbyterian.
You’re an Evangelical Presbyterian, probably a member of a PCA church. Sound theology and reverent worship are important to you, but so are outreach and ministry to the community. You are likely to be from the deep South, and perhaps at one time you were Southern Baptist.
| Evangelical Presbyterian |
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85% | |
| Presby - Old School |
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60% | |
| High Church Nomad |
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60% | |
| Reformed Baptist |
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60% | |
| Moderate Evangelical |
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50% | |
| Conservative Evangelical |
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40% | |
| Baptist |
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35% | |
| Fightin\’ Fundy |
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25% |
If you want to take the quiz, you can do so here - What Kind of Evangelical Are You?
Blessings in Christ,
Terry W. West
I am now done moving all the posts from “Blogspot” to “Reformedblogs”. I am glad that my blog was only about a week old, so I was able to move without to much trouble. I look forward to blogging here. I just wish I would have found this place before I created the other one.
Blessings in Christ,
Terry W. West
I just discovered Reformedblogs, so I decided to move my blog here. I just started my blog about a week ago, so I am new at this to some degree. I am Reformed and Covenantal in my theology, and I love discussing the scriptures and issues relating to my faith. I look forward to any discussion that may be stimulated from what I write about here on the blog.
Blessings in Christ,
Terry W. West