- Campbell and others were called
"Reformers," for their desire to restore the Church's first century
roots. This way of life came to be
known as the "Restoration
Movement."
-
- Near Washington, Pennsylvania, Campbell and
his son, Alexander, and the Christian Association established the
Brush Run Church, which, in 1815, became part of a nearby Baptist
Association.
-
- Reformers
and the Baptists differed on key issues. By 1830, the Reformers
cut their last ties with the Baptist Association and became known
as "Disciples."
Thomas Campbell's passion for Christian unity
is summed up in his proclamation that : "The church of Christ upon
earth is essentially, intentionally, and constitutionally one." This
statement is the first and key proposition of Thomas Campbell's
Declaration and Address, a work called by some the "Magna Charta" of
the movement that preceded the denomination known as the Christian
Church (Disciples of Christ).
THE NACC WAS BIRTHED IN AND CONTINUED THE HOSTILE TAKEOVER OF NON-INSTRUMENTAL CHURCHES.
The Tulsa Workshop.
The misleaders have decided to have a
wrestling match betwee Max Lucado (instrumentalists) and Bob
Russel (instrumentalists). Is this Navigating the Winds of Change or Blowing
foul winds? This page will be often updated but first it is important
to understand that the Stoneites birthed at Cane Ridge and the
churches of Christ as Thomas Campbel defined it as A SCHOOL OF CHRIST
were never part of the same GROUP nor do they remotely have the same
roots. This is the big lie which causes the Christian church to
enlist dupes to pretend that we should REunite on their terms.
Tulsa Workshop 2010
confesses desire for unity with the NACC which has gobbled up the
workshop as part of its "unity" imperative. All of the key
speakers are those who have violently twisted the Scripture to have the
"spirit" tell them to IMPOSE that which God imposed on Israel as the
worship of the starry host because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai.
It may BE a command since strong delusions produces lying wonders
which speaks of all of the hypocritic actors Jesus identified as
speakers, singers and instrument players.
Click for Tulsa Workshop 2011 The theme will be "Unchained!" "If the
Son makes you free, then are you free indeed!
In fact the root meaning of music is
mystery which "makes the lambs dumb before the slaughter." Nimrod and
modern medicine understands that people can be enchained and controlled
by sound just as they can be seduced by the latest perfume. All AIDS to
the Word of God is called sorcery.
Jesus in John 17 identifies the WORLD using the word COSMOS. We know
exactly the name of the world ruler, his cult and worship practices.
Jesus refused to preach the gospel to them and even said that he
would NOT pray for the World. Only a tiny remnant will come OUT
of the world instead of wanting to UNITE with the World.
Milton Jones
who manipulated a peaceable Church of Christ into the Christian
Church theology using all of the false information about instrumental
music, will be at Tulsa showing how to MERGE a church of Christ with
a Christia church. Easy: convert to being a Christian church and
invite another Christian church to pump up your GROWTH
NUMBERS.
Because Jesus warned that
"doctors of the Law take away the key to knowledge" we might expect
that both "wings" of any religious movement to flap against one
another to try to keep the "bird" in the air. However, it is a MARK
the self-proclaimed authorities do not know or do not care that the
total history of the Bible and even before that Lucifer or Satan or
Apollo, Abaddon or Apollyon has USED his muses to bleed off worship
for himself through his/her agents. The goal is to cast a smokey veil
over the simple Word of God which is able to convert a physical being
into a spiritual being. The evidence is overwhelming and NO promoter
of deliberate discord through music can find a jot or tittle of
evidence for WORSHIP which consisted of congregational SINGING [as we
know it] with instrumental accompaniment. Here are some of the
judgmental attempts to validate deliberate divison by identifying the
ANTI-instrumentalists as, without too much of a stretch, "ignorant,
red-necked, southern malcontents."
Those promoting MUSICAL
worship have only Satan for their authority.
What is
the universal connection between music AS worship and Serpent
Worship?
How does music AS worship connect to the
Devil? Jesus said that
children of the Devil "speak on their own."
A.
Ralph Johnson in
Instrumental Music, Sacred or Sinful. 10/23/04
11/13/04..11/16/04...11/17/04 new
lucifer, Apollyon data
Dwaine E.
Dunning: The non-instrumental BRANCH
must be cut OFF. God always hides a MARK. God always hides a
MARK.
1. Tom
Burgess in Documents on
Instrumental Music
reviewed. Psallo and Instrumental Music: Proofs do not prove anything but the
"music-homosexuality" connection. See
more on Strabo's definition of the worship of Apollo or
Abaddon or Apollyon:
his MUSES are the
locusts or musical performers in the book of revelation.
2. Tom
Burgess More Review of Plutarch: if Psallo authorizes "church music" it authorizes a
homosexual gathering.
3. Tom Burgess on Moralia confirms the "Music-Heresy-Perversion" connection
which has no historical exception. 10/20/04
4. Tom Burgess on John Chrysostom: are the anti-instrumentalists ignorant rurals?
10/21/04 What about Paul and Martin Luther and John Calvin and
Zwingli and--everyone who believed the Bible as authority.
5. M.
C. Kurfees and G. C.
Brewer on Psallo and
Instrumental Music in worship. Thayer and Grimm reviewed by Tom
Burgess.
9/25/04 Charles Daily Northwest College of the
Bible Part One
..... Part One A .....Part
Two
..... THRESKIA or CHARISMATIC
Isaiah 25, Isa 25: Isaiah Chapter 25: The branch of
the terrible one is a song to be accompanied with instrumental
music. The Abominable Branch also speaks of Satan's use of
instrumental music.
We wouldn't expect Baptists to
be sucked into a movement to get the churches of Christ to help them
build 5500 new
congregations: the
Stone Campbell Movement which pretends to enfold the historic
churches of Christ who DO NOT use music will have the same kind of
luck and earned contempt. The few participants will probably go
anywhere to peddle books and bookings.
We would not use hate terms to
define Baptists who refuse to join us because Jesus died and John
Locke and Thomas Campbell wrote their Declaration of Freedom
FROM organized
religionists.
Editor's
Preface
"Imagine a unity church
movement that reunites after a hundred years of separation! This was
the thrilling message of Richard Atchley, Preaching Minister,
Richland Hills Church of Christ, Ft. Worth, Texas, to over 10,000
gathered this year at the North American Christian Convention in Indianapolis on Thursday night, July 10. His
stirring two-minute presentation dreaming of a family reunion between
the Churches of Christ (a cappella) and the Christian Churches
(independent), openly
seeking forgiveness for ugliness that has occurred over the years from his side of
the movement,
and committing
himself to bring about sharing of ministers, speakers, mission
efforts, and more was an astonishing, historic moment for the future of the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement. As I sat there and heard this,
he made me believe that we really are going to see this happen before
our very eyes . . . soon. These are exciting days."
What
Rick Atchley always had as an "agenda" was to impose instruments on
"his" congregation so that there would be "unity." Of course, repelling
half of the "owners" was a common price to be paid to become a Purpose
Driven Cult.
First, there was NEVER a UNITY between
two diverse
people with diverse
theological
grounds at any time and
only in PLACES where people in the same area choose to cooperate and
"fellowship" which apparently meant to meet in one another's chuch
buildings. There were no
instruments in any of
the groups and therefore no major SECTARIAN innovation to divide the groups at the fellowship
level.
Secondly, Among the Scholars, they knew that the
church belonged to
Christ and was
historically known as the church of Christ or collectively the churches of Christ. In his declaration and Address Thomas Campbell
proves that "the church of Christ" was not a new view. The "church of
God" in the Bible is keyed to the message "in Christ."
Thirdly, the Stoneites thought that
UNITY was more important
than agreement on Biblical doctrine. As Thomas Campbell defines church as "a school of
Christ" and worship as "reading" and discoursing the Bible, he would
also agree that unity at
this ekklesia or synagogue level was also important and that ALL could speak the same
things if they spoke the Word. Paul had made this clear when he
identified two major groups which had the same view of "music" as the
facilitator of "worship" but diverse views on food and drink. In
Romans 15 Paul showed how the UNITY of speaking "that which is
written" with one mouth and one mind to glorify God was the important element of unity at this
"assembly" level.
If one decides that
the Word of Christ or "that which is written" needs to be
pre-digested before feeing the lambs as lesser beings, then HIS views
MUST be different from the Bible or there would be no point of
preaching. The first "baby step" automatically divides those who
grasp the Word as a completed document.
If one decides to "sing"
something other than the Biblical text then division always and will
always result.
If one goes further by adding
MUSIC as a legalistic ritual of performed worship then a total
crushing of the assembly concept has already occurred.
Barton W. Stone and Alexander
Campbell never agreed on
THE major issues which
makes a church an ekklesia or school of the Bible and the nature of the Godhead and the meaning of
baptism. Therefore,
there was little more "unity" than among the Baptists which readily
united with those following Campbell's teachings. The Stoneites are
best exemplified by the adoption of Methodist Shouting as an "act of worship" whereas the churches of
Christ remained faithful to the WORD and PRAYER model Christ founded
and remained quiet or AT REST as a gift of God.
Richard
Atchley identifies himself as more aligned to the Christian chruch
than to the church of Christ. To that end his church has been so
organized.
Speaking Of Rick Atchley: "most of the preachers that I
run with in mainline
churches of Christ do
not believe instrumental music is wrong" (p. 7).
You walk into
our youth center Sunday morning or Wednesday night: and I'm telling
you; Christian rock an' roll is just blasting" (p. 9).
Of course, rhetorical strident
speech is lumped along with other professions such as singers,
musicians and craftsmen as "theater builders and stage managers" were
involved in SORCERY as Rev 18 makes clear. Because they had nothing
positive to add they were called PARASITES. These roles were often
leftovers when ALL sacrificial systems went broke. The priests and
singers continued a fragil existence as parasites who would DO
ANYTHING to keep from working.
See how VOODOO parses to ROCK AND ROLL and virtual
sexuality .
"In the
academic
realm, people from both
sides of the movement are becoming more and more comfortable working
together on a number of important projects. Stone-Campbell Journal
itself involves editors, article contributors, book reviewers, and
avid
subscribers from both
sides.
ACADEMIC and Bible and History Literate are NOT
the same thing. No "scholar" of the Bible or history or human nature
could defend either denominational structures or MUSIC as a worship
word. It is a big lie and Satan is the father of it. The Stone
Campbell Journal will never print clear statements of the MUSIC and
ANTI-GOD or ANTI-WORD passages.
Most of us are not going to
accept that the Stone-Campbell Journal is one of those BIBLICAL projects Jesus assigned to
the evangelists who still have a GO
button. Most of the scholars whom Jesus condemned as "doctors of the
law" had only a STOP
button. Nor are SYMPOSIUMS of non-functional clergy persons likely to
attract most who are literate about the "music" issue. TRAFFICKERS
are the only ones who can possibly benefit from UNITY.
The Centenial Edition of the Declaration and Address by
Thomas Campbell was published in 1908.
Of course, this marks a much earlier desertion of the principles of
Thomas Campbell and deliberately destroyed the unity among believers
by returning to purely denominational roots. Mostly women with
carpetbags had poured into the South after the Civil war believing
that everyone was so ignorant that they could be forced to
JOIN a new UNION so oppressive that J. H. Garrison
saw it as encompassing all of CHRISTENDOM. And, of course, even children would be
enlisted as LIFE MEMBERS: shades of Jim Bakker. Under the Law of the
Guilt Clause, one is divisive and sows discord by REFUSING to
join.
People who subscribed to the
Campbell, rational (spiritual) understanding did not DIVIDE by
putting the instrument out of the church: they simply REFUSED TO JOIN the
INSTITUTION and had to abandon their own otherwise peacable churches.
I have begun to look at a
sermon by Rubel Shelly on Isaiah 25 which illustrates why faithful
churches for 2,000 years simply could not be disciples and
PLEASURE themselves with
music:
Rubel
Shelly's Today's Sermon Today: Rubel Says: "There is no better example of this than the
victory song of
Isaiah."
However, the branch of the terrible ones in the Hebrew is: Zamiyr
(h2158) from 2167; a
song to be
accompanied with
instrumental music
The back inside cover of this
edition of D&A shows a denominational mentality which explains why in 1906 the people at the Census
Bureau were so upset that the Christian Churches were including
EVERYONE. David Lipscomb confirmed to the Census Bureau that the
non-instrumental churches DID NOT BELONG
to the new denomination. When it was all over,
churches of Christ stood where churches of Christ (using that name)
had always stood and rejected attempting to worship a Spirit God in
the new place of the human spirit with "music" which, based on the
meaning of Hebrew and Greek words, is an attack on the human
spirit. It is a fact that the MAJORITY is usually wrong and of
the faithful it is asked, "Shall He find faith when He returns." No,
almost none. In the REMNANT fact of Biblical History, God keeps
PRUNING in each generation and there is always more chaff or DARNEL
(devoted to drug-induced rituals)
There was
never a CAMPBELL
movement in the sense
of an organization larger than the local congregation. Alexander
Campbell's participation in organizations did not cause the churches
of Christ to tag along. In fact, Alexander Campbell's views of a
separate organization to take care of the MISSIONARY effort was
opposed. His views of total oversight never materialized although the
missionary society was enough to sow more discord than any
"organization men" could correct.
Therefore, it is an oxymoron to
speak of a STONEITE + CAMPBELLITE movement. Separation occured simply
by the churches of Christ refusing to be COUNTED: no more, no les.
While giving lip service to
"speaking where the Bible speaks" the Campbellites and Stoneites are
simply names for two views of the Bible. The Bible pronounces itself
as the authority and the almost totality of church theologians agree
that the Biblical text defines faith and practice.
The "children" of the Stoneites
usually subscribe to the "Ten Suggestions" view of th Bible so that
the Bible must be worked over to fit the culture. All of those "hand
picked" to represent the non-instrumental churches of Christ
subscribe to the Stoneite's High Church view. Therefore, the Stone
Campbel Movement toward unity is like professional wrestling: the fix
is in.
Alfred T. DeGroot notes that:
"This is why Thomas Campbell could say:
"The New
Testament is as perfect
a constitution for the
worship, discipline, and government of the New Testament church, and
as a perfect a rule for particular duties of its members, as the Old
Testament was for the worship, discipline, and government of the Old
Testament Church, and the particular duties of its members."
"Thus there came to be, very
early in the career of this movement, interest not only in
(1) Christian
unity in a new freedom, but also (defined as 'church')
(2) a return to the
doctrine, ordinances, and discipline of the New Testament church." (p. 153) (defined as 'sect')
In 1932, A. W. Fortune says,
"The controversies through which the Disciples have passed from the
beginning to the present time have been the result of two different interpretations of their mission.
<>There have been
those who believed it is the spirit
of the New Testament Church that should be restored, and
in our method of
working the church
must adapt
itself to changing
conditions.
There have been those who
regarded the New Testament Church as a fixed pattern for all time, and our business is to hold rigidly to
that pattern regardless of consequences.
Because of these
two attitudes conflict were inevitable."
The Stone Campbell Movement has
shown that its interest is in confiscating non-instrumental churches (a congenital propensity) and NOT in unity based on rejecting instrumental music or
being governed in faith and practice by the Bible.
"Broadly speaking, it may be
said that number
1.
above generated the present fellowship called Disciples of Christ,
and that number (church)
2. gave rise to the Churches of Christ. (sect)
According to
Troeltsch,
Disciples would be among the 'church' type and
Churches of Christ among the 'sect'
type.
"By 'church' is meant that body of conceptions which says "From the beginning they have been
'high
churchmen'...
because they 'never
ceased to stress the visible and corporate character of the Church as the
Divine Society,' (with bylaws, a head and ability to adapt to the
culture)
and rejected 'legalized methods and structural forms which are a contradiction of the living nature
of the church.'
The Bible, church scholars and founders of
denomination all agree with Thomas Campbell that the Bible constitutes the ONLY
authority for faith and practice in the Christian System.
The High Church has only a HIGH
HAND for thinking that their right to be IN STEP WITH CULTURE is so
powerful that it will excuse deliberately sowing discord.
See
the High Church Background. The
High Church movement was never adopted by any religious group.
See a
review of Richard Hamm who defines the denomination which has REJECTED the
Bible for faith and practice.
One of the LIBERTIES of a
church which "CULTS" cannot accept is the right to a huge control
organization which intended to include "all of Christendon." That
would destroy the freedom from the Jewish Temple-State run by a "king
set over us" and invalidate the entire mission of Christ to treat us
as LAMBS and not WORK OXEN and therefore to give us REST.
"As early as
1882, Sewell and Harding were urging that a
separation be brought about to identify that part of the Christian
Church fellowship which
supported the organ
and the society. Lipscomb, at the time, rebuffed his brethren who
called for such division. He sought no compromise, but hoped that the
church would not suffer division."
"By 1897, Lipscomb was
reconciled to the fact that division had already occurred and the supporters of the innovations would be
satisfied with nothing less than a complete take-over of the churches... (Adron Doran, J.E.Choate, The
Christian Scholar, p. 59
Postscript:
"Dr. Herman Norton,
author of Tennessee Christians, tells the story about the
first division usually identified with the U.S. Religious Census of
1906. A preacher by the name of A. I. Myhr came to Tennessee to work for the "organized"
missionary societies to win over Tennessee churches of Christ into
the ranks of the "organ"
and "society" Christian Church. Myhr worked for twenty years (I890-1910)
with this one objective in mind. He was supported by the editors of
the Christian
Standard and the
Christian
Evangelist.
At the time of his
resignation as Secretary of the Tennessee Missionary Society in 1910, he had not won over a single
church of Christ in
Nashville and met with
poor success in both Middle and West Tennessee.
The United States Religious
Census officially recognized that two Restoration churches did in
fact exist in the 1910 publication.
"Dr. Norton wrote in the
Tennessee Christians that during the twenty-year effort in Tennessee,
Myhr had succeeded in "engendering a bitter partisan spirit in almost every
congregation in the state." And he added, "where there had been one communion, admittedly in discord, when he arrived
in the state,
there were now two
separate and distinct bodies with no meaningful communication between them" (Tennessee Christians, p.
123).
"When Dr. Shelly came to
Nashville some twelve or so years ago, the churches of Christ were at
peace. The churches cooperated in many good works. Goodwill prevailed
on every hand. This is, sadly, no longer true!"
Is it anti-Christian to
deliberately divide churches just to introduce what was always seen
as pagan attempts to attract the masses to pay the bills and to
attract the gods into their presence?
A Church Divided
"David Lipscomb was faced with
the painful awareness that the churches of Christ / Christian
Churches were already divided by 1897. However, Lipscomb would have
to wait another ten years before it became official.
"Division did come
and was first marked by
the Newbern, Tennessee,
church trial (1902-1905). A majority, against the will of the minority, forced an organ into the Newbern building resulting in
a trial which took years to resolve. I would say that churches of
Christ are now about at the place where the churches were in 1897.
Division need not come and should not come. God hates division and
those who sow discord among the brethren.
Churches of Christ rejected
being INCLUDED WITHOUT
PERMISSION in the
Disciples version of the census of 1906. By 1908 the Centennial
edition of Campbell's Declaration and Address was published and the
goals were stated. Churches of Christ did not "abandon" the historic
church of Christ but made the choice NOT to be counted in what is
shown here as a denominational structure.
Cover:
Stoneites can claim only Stone in his early search.
We
have posted this Centenniel Edition of the Declaration and Address
here. You can
readily grasp that there is no resemblance betwee the Campbell
Restoration Movement and this quick reversion back to an oppressive,
denominational institution. The same thing which caused the
non-instrumental churches of Christ to be LEFT BEHIND would shortly cause the Christian Churches to be
left behind.
Together for Greater Ministry Impact '04: Blueprint
Tour has a BLUEPRINT which is
PATTERNISM. The goal is to procure enough pseudo- church of Christ
Preachers (whatever that is) to help the INSTRUMENTALISTS build 5500
new Christian churches. This is a repeat of the DENOMINATION defined
in the above pamphlet and literate believers who KNOW the meaning of
"musical worship" will not join them. Using the GUILT
CLAUSE defined from Adam to J. W.
McGarvey that will make those who refuse to be ENLISTED divisive and
sectarian and legalists. But, that has always been a big lie to blame
the victim for the blood spattered on the assassin's new dancing
slippers. Judas was a Siccari or assassin: his thief's bag was always
attached to a flute case and was for carrying the mouthpieces or
reeds for the flute. That fulfills the prophecy that Judas would fail
to MUSICALLY TRIUMPH over Jesus:
that was left for the Musical Warrior Levites as clergy.
Leroy
Garrett is probably the
father of the Stone Campbell Movement which one proponent says is
only a quarter of a century old. Roger
R. Chambers The
Plea of History and the History of the Plea, a member of the Christian church writes of:
"A lethal
combination: The weak
idea propped up by the strong book -- the well-written one, that is.
I'm thinking of one such idea -- that we ought to be more
interdenominational, and a book--Leroy Garrett's The Stone-Campbell Movement.
Our introduction relates to the
demand that CHURCHES OF CHRIST apolgize to the CHRISTIAN CHURCH
because the "Christians" sowed discord by adding mechanical
instruments into an otherwise peacable assembly. Click
for the introduction to grasp that there was NEVER unity between the
two groups.
There be no UNION when
the churches of Christ never had an organization larger than a local
congregation.
The Stone
Movement resulted in
the Christian
Church as a
denomination as originally envisioned by Garrison and "evangelized"
by Standard Publishing.
The same
Stoneites who are outraged that non-instrumentalists would not
REMAIN when instruments were added, later separated from those who
became the Disciples of
Christ Denomination with a visible Head. They had the right
to separate and cannot rationally harass non-instrumentalists who
were FORCED to leave by the presence of MUSIC as worship as well as
their actual ejection if they attempted to EXPLAIN why "music as
worship" has always been pagan idolatry--"there is no traditon or
record of exception." It was a cult mind which denied people the
freedom of association as clearly articulated by John Locke who
risked his life to give people the right to DISCONNECT.
While there was "union" in the
minds of sone Barton W. Stone never merged with the Reformers and
indeed disagreed with them. That is, Barton W. Stone Stone was never
united under the Church of Christ according to
Burnett
In Seattle, in my old church,
the preacher SOWED DISCORD to attract those from the Christian church
and school. When a faithful deacon wanted to explain why the OWNERS
of the property did not believe in instruments he was told that he
would be divisive, would sow discord and that "he had been warned."
He further explained that anyone who would fight against instruments
would also enslave the black members if he could. This is quite
identical to the teachings of Rubel Shelly who insists that the
"world" sees non-instrumentalists as racists and fratricidal.
Those who followed the
Campbells were
influenced by others in their more Biblical view of Baptism as the
Christ-appointed MEANS of requesting A holy spirit or A good
conscience. Stone admitted this difference, the weekly observance of
the Lord's Supper, the influence of the "holy spirit" in conversion
and many other particulars. Stone notes: " In a few things I
dissented from him, but was agreed to disagree." The working
agreement in Kentucky did not spread beyond because of these
differences. That many churches identified themselves as Christian
churches did not make them Stoneites. In the Declaration and Address
long before O'Kelley's use of the word CHRISTIAN Thomas Campbell used
both the Christian Church and the Church of Christ.
These are not MINOR but are
radically different views of faith and practice and people were NEVER
united in what used to be called the Campbell-Stone movement but is
now called (by some) the Stone- Campbell Movement. This, as early
"postmodernism," sought to diminish the role of Christ and the
writing apostles in favor of music as part of a charismatic emphasis
on some imagined direct operation of the Spirit "person" separate and
apart from the teachings of Jesus and the Apostles. You
CANNOT hang your hat on the epistles and find
a three-person Godhead, denying the necessity of baptism for
Gentiles, the use of EXTERNAL singing and MELODY (warfare words), a
clergy priesthood, the USE of women in authority (authentia meaning erotic
which non-sedentary women automatically project), minimizing the
"divisive views of divided apostles" and on and on.
The fact that Baptists,
Methodists, Presbyterians, the Weslyian or Pilgrim Holiness Church,
the Shakers, Christadelphians, the Mormons and most other groups were
influenced by the charismatic breakdown at Cane Ridge does NOT MEAN
that they are part of the SAME MOVEMENT any more than they are part
of the CATHOLIC MOVEMENT. The first pseudo- Christian awakening
(really witchcraft) produced 321 new sects mostly Baptists and the
Cane Ridge produced many other divisions. To say that the radically
different Stonetites agreeing to meet with Disciples produced UNITY
is to fly in the face of the result of any such fatal connecting of
EXPERIENCE to CONVERSION, or music-induced ecstasy (madness) to
"spirituality."
Was Stone a
hinderance?
We have noted that Stone, like
many others, had trouble finding his way out of the briar patch which
had enslaved people by denying them the Bible. Because he was an
"honest seeker" he did not have the guile to hide his search for the
truth. This led to many statements which still appear to show him
believing that Christ did not preexist in the form of God. And of
course, he would have sprinkled little babies in his early years.
Therefore, his views were a stumbling block to the restoration of
some groups such as the Baptists--
"W. T. Moore calls
attention to an important result of the union
which should not be overlooked: 'From the Campbellian point of view this union had its drawbacks.
At the time it was
consummated the 'Reformers' were practically sweeping everything before them in the
Baptist churches of Kentucky, Ohio, and other places where the
'Christians' had attained considerable influence.
"But the
union seriously
affected the
trend of the Baptist churches toward the Reformatory
movement. Many of those
who had sympathy with
the Reformation utterly
refused to become associated with a movement which had
coalesced with
Unitarians and Pedobaptists.' This charge was false, but it had the semblance of
truth, and, for a time, it did much injury." (Davis, M. M., Restoration Movement in the 19th
Century, p. 157).
If you discount Thomas
Campbell's early association with "restorationists" and his attempt
to unify the bodies of
Presbyterians, and
place his restoration at the time of his rejection of the
Presbyterian church, then you can say that Stone had begun before
Campbell. However, Davis notes that a stream can be longer but still be a
tributary--
"And so the Stone
movement, though several
years older in its organic form than that of the Campbell's,
is generally regarded as a
tributary,
and not the main stream, in this onflowing and world-blessing
spiritual current.
This is because most of
the vital and permanent in the teachings of Stone, and much more, were found in the teachings of
Campbell." (Davis, p.
158).
From this and other evidence,
Stone had theological problems which prevented him from being the
father of the Restoration. Baptists who made up a major body of the
growing Restoration would have never agreed with him. In addition,
Stone did not have a "rounded out" view of the Bible which found
acceptance among people who already knew what the church should look
like, if and when it appeared.
"In a sense,
there was nothing to
unite, because neither
Stone's Christians nor Campbell's Disciples of Christ had any
denominational organization. Tensions were inevitable, even over the
proper name of the united movement.
Many
Stonites cherished their
revivalist origins,
continued to affirm Stone's Arianism, and resented Campbell's doctrinal rigidity and few of his less
than flattering remarks about Stone.
In most regions the
competing congregations
eventually merged, but a remnant of Stoneite
congregations in the
Midwest, joind by a small Christian movement in New England and independent Christian congregations in North Carolina and Virginia rejected union." (Conkin, p. 140)
The so-called Stone Campbell
Movement has as its goals the "conversion" of non-instrumental
churches of Christ into virtual "Christian churches." They have never
removed instruments from churches and it is a fact that
about 5 churches of
Christ have added
instruments for "alternative" services but that will not attract
believers. The HOLLOW SPECTRE waved around, like Rubel Shelly's
GEIST, will assuredly drive a few into the desired postmodern
schizophrenia to turn them WICKEDLY against their old beliefs,
churches, and SPLIT FAMILIES but it too will pass and the SECTARIANS
will be marked down in history with the MAGIANS.
See the
meaning of Postmodernism and
how the methods of Machiavelli, Hitler, Antonio Gramsci to create a
socialist one world order. DISAGREEMENT produces DIVISION and
therefore we must SILENCE disagreement and let the "scholars"
lead.
A definition and application of the new world
order.
To that end, the "dialog" has
been between the Disciples of Christ, the Christian church and
non-instrumental churches of Christ with the World Convention of Churches of
Christ looking on. It
is a fact that some of these participants want to go ecumenical with
ALL people who claim to be believers: Max Lucado's group has joined
the GLOBAL CHURCH. The intent of a global church with a GLOBAL ETHIC
is to silence any person from criticizing any other person's belief.
With
his WHOLE LIFE DISCIPLESHIP denies the INDIVIDUAL the right to read, interpret
and speak the Word outside of the community or commune. We are well
aware that none of his members will use their real name when
discussing issues on information or doctrinal debate.
These later participants are
already confirmed in their approval of instrumental music and do not
represent non-instrumental churches of Christ.
USA
Trialogue held in
Nashville, Tennessee included DISCIPLES OF CHRIST members as if unity
could be achieved. Invited Observers: Lyndsay Jacobs, Co-General
Secretary, World
Convention of Churches of Christ; and Victor
Knowles, editor of One Body magazine.
Victor Knowles is active in RECRUITING but distorts
the Bible and history of churches of Christ.
This is part of
the postmodern confessed DISSOCIATION or induced schizophrenia
intended to make you hate your old church family and leaders for so
abusing you about things like pagan instrumental music.
The "trialogue" is really a monologue
because it includes men antagonistic to churches of Christ and the
"movement" knew that they could stack the deck and present a front of
UNITY when these men have been DISCORDERS.
Members of the dialogue
included: From the Churches of Christ Mike
Armour, pastor, Dallas; Doug Foster, professor, Abilene, Texas; Jimmie Sites,
pastor, Nashville, Tennessee; Phillip Morrison, editor, Franklin, Tennessee; and David Worley, professor, Austin, Texas.
While there is probably blame
to go around, this movement facilitated by Jimmie Sites of the Madison Church of Christ brought
in a "Musical Worship Minister" who normally is to "lead the
worshipers into the presence of God." The membership of that church
went from about 3300 (5000 elder count) to about half of that and
about 325 of that count came from the county jail. That massive
SOWING OF DISCORD still continues while some brag about telling
people they are on a train to, say Birmingham, but "we gonna divert
them to Louisville." All of these underemployed men had to know that
forming a NEW SECT would sow discord even as the "new style worship"
sowed discord in Christian churches.
Mike Armour wrote the story of the Bible for the
Ukraine because they cannot read the Bible.
Mike goes
into a tail spin blaming everything but bad breath on NOT PLAYING
INSTRUMENTS.
This is long and
tedious but I am working on it to show that POSTMODERNISM means that
you can "take liberties" with the text just like "John did with his
ideas obout Jesus being the Logos."
This illustrates the
differences: the Restoration Movement held that you should allow the
Bible to say what it says. If you don't believe it then no church of
Christer will chase you down with a pitch pipe and be FRATRICIDAL in
the words of Rubel Shelly.
There is NOTHING--even if you
could "ecumenic" 100% of the people-- that justifies treating the
Inspired Word like a garbage bucked out of which to pick pieces. You
can TAKE LIBERTIES with the Bible but you cannot at the same time be
a Disciple of Christ.
Doug
Foster in Restoration Roots, like
all "scholars", tends to quote other scholars and thus distorts the
Bible and history.
"In the May issue of Winskins
there is an article by Douglas A. Foster which he called, "The NEW Birth and Christian Unity,
David Lipscomb's Middle Way." Then a sub-title states:
"There is no one
thing taught with greater clearness in the New Testament than that
the new birth precedes
and qualifies for
baptism.
Faith unites and makes us one
with Christ, and such believer is a Christian, and saved, not with a
conditional but with an everlasting salvation." [David Lipscomb.
"Baptist Queries and Answers." Gospel Advocate, 1873, 702.]
What Foster doesn't say is that
he is NOT quoting David Lipscomb because David Lipscomb is quoting a
BAPTIST writing in a BAPTIST paper!
And, of course, this implicates
Phillip
Morrison who promotes such
false teachings and teachers.
These anti-church writers clearly focus in on
specific issues:
>
A view of the Bible to fit the changed
culture
> Choirs ot "teams"
> Instruments
> Faith Only
> Role of Women
> Premillenialism
> Baptism for
because of
the remission of sins rather than baptism in order to the
remission
> Give the false impression that EVERYONE
ELSE freely fellowships everyone else,
impose a burden which deprives free believers
the "right of association" and the "right to practice religion based
on their own views of Scripture."
> They use psychological violence by their mantra that to REFUTE any doctrines of
anyone else makes you legalistic, sectarian and
unloving. Of course they make more than a cottage industry out of
judging those who pay their bills.
In fact, no entity larger than a local
congregation represents any other congregation. Therefore, they
cannot be integrated into musical "worship" by "unity meetings" which
have always held the MUSICAL position to be the only acceptable
format. Agreement to work together in missions means work together
with instrumental music to "attract" and "save more souls."
Nor, does any faithful congregation of either
group serving its own community and sending evangelists have either
time or inclination to assemble with musical instruments. Richard
Wagner was Adolph Hitler's "musical worship minister" and without him
the Nazi's could never have made such a huge COMMUNITY or "unity
movement."
The history of Satan leading the "youth" into
the use of instrumental music in many ancient documents illustrates
that the more unBiblical one's new "revelation" the more important it
is to accumulate disciples who will AFFIRM you in your actions. A
"normal" civilian member of the church simply feels no need to affirm
and be affirmed by mass movements. These stories including The Book
of Jubilees, The books of Enoch and the many versions of Adam and Eve
all agree.
Hitler would explain Experience and Community this
way.
"But the community of the great
demonstration not only
strengthens the individual, it also unites and helps to create an
esprit de
corps.
"The man who is exposed to
grave tribulations, as the first
advocate of a new doctrine in his factory or
workshop,
absolutely needs
that strengthening which lies in the conviction of being a member and fighter
in a great comprehensive
body.
"And he obtains an impression
of this
body for the first time
in the mass
demonstration. When
from his little workshop or big factory, in which he feels very
small,
he steps for the
first time into a mass
meeting and has
thousands and thousands of people of the same opinions around him, when,
as a seeker, (Als Suchender.' A Wagnerian phrase, which Hitler
was apparently determined to use at all costs)
he is swept
away (the Vortex) by
three or four thousand others into the mighty effect of suggestive intoxication and
enthusiasm,
"when the visible success and
agreement of thousands confirm to him
the rightness of the new
doctrine and for the
first time
arouse doubt in the
truth of his previous conviction -
then he himself has succumbed to the magic influence of what we designate as 'mass suggestion.'
The will, the longing, and also
the power of thousands are accumulated in every individual. The man
who enters such a meeting doubting and wavering leaves it inwardly
reinforced:
he has become a
link in the community.
There is a radical difference between the
interpretation of Scripture and the nature of "worship" which
developed out of the "Christian churches" and the "Reformers" or
churches of Christ. Men like Alfred T. DeGroot defines those who use
the original Bible for faith and practice as SECTS while those who
follow the "High Church" understanding of Scripture are called
CHURCHES. It is a fact, however, that the High Church view of
accomodating Scripture to Culture was discussed but never approved by
any group.
A method defined by Richard Hamm of
the Disciples can be read by
Clicking Here.
At Cane Ridge Hamm stated
that: Barton W. Stone and Alexander Campbell both were
fervent about Christian
unity. Campbell, said
Disciples General Minister and President Richard L. Hamm, showed a
preference for working out the details of unity before taking action.
Stone, said the GMP, advocated Christians coming together -- and
working out the details later. "I appreciate that attitude very much,
and believe that probably Stone had that right. The more I've learned
about Stone the more I appreciate his contribution to who we are as
the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Many of the things that
he said are ready to be freshly applied by the church in the 21st
century," said Hamm.
Hamm means what the Stoneites
meant: UNION is more important than fidelity to the Truth in the
Bible. Not to worry, says agent Rubel Shelly speaking for all of
these people, WE will partner with God to get a NEW set of doctrines
to FIT culture--which thy mystically reveal--has changed. Even the
human eyeballs have evolved and the old words do not fit the
POSTmodern eyes which have replaced the MODERN eyes and mind which
HALLUCINATED that mere mortals can READ the Words of Christ and grasp
the meaning: if you are getting TRUTH from chapters and verses it is
OBVIOUS that your lack of a peer- awarded Phd CANNOT grasp that GO
PREACH now means LOCATED MISSIONARY. Baptize FOR the remission of
sins NOW means baptize BECAUSE you are saved or WASH because you are
already clean.
Rubel Shelly
as one pretend AGENT for the churches of
Christ in the Stone Campbell Movement
has followed Hamm closely about how to LINE UP THE signs to interpret one's
ACTIONS as consistent with Scripture. Click
Here
This article follows the purveyors
of THE SHEPHERDING MOVEMENT. Another article on Whole
Life Dicipleship denies the individual the right to read, interpret and
teach the Word independant of the community (commune)
See the Promise Keepers NATIONAL SHEPHERDING
MOVEMENT
Lynn Anderson PK-like Discipling
Dilema
Max Lucado hires a DISCIPLING MINISTER
What is called the American Restoration Movement was simply a few more steps away from dogmas which had
been initially added as "liberties." It is a fact that
prior to Zwingli in 1525 baptism was understood in terms in which Jesus
commanded it and the apostles began to practice it. That is, baptism
was the time and place to call upon the name of the Lord and request
A holy
spirit or A good conscience or consiousness. The purpose was to be
accepted by Jesus Christ as a disciple. Disciples were called
Christians without a human organization. Based on the Bible only
believers who are THEN baptized are called Christians. A person who
does not follow the Bible including the epistles is not by definition
a Christian. He may be good and may reach a happy hunting ground but
by definition a DISCIPLE of Christ cannot belong to a regulating body
or denomination.
John
Calvin wrote:
I am willing, however, that all
the advantage which the church may have derived from our labors shall
have no effect in alleviating our fault, if in any other respect we
have done
her injury.
Therefore, let there be an examination of our whole doctrine, of our
form of administering the sacraments (MEANS of Grace) , and our
method of governing the church;
and in none of
these three things will it be found that we have made any
change upon the ancient
form, without attempting to
restore it to the exact
standard of the word of
God.
To return to the
division which we formerly adopted.
All our
controversies concerning doctrine relate either to the
legitimate worship
of God, or to the ground
of salvation.
Thomas Campbell followed John Calvin in his
quest for the Reformation or Restoration of the Church of Christ.
"In 1808 he and others founded
the Christian Association of Washington, Pennsylvania. That group
adopted the motto, well-known by Disciples, "Where the scriptures
speak, we speak; where the Scriptures are silent, we are silent."
Campbell and others were called
"Reformers," for their desire to restore the Church's first century
roots. This way of life
came to be known as the "Restoration Movement."
Near Washington, Pennsylvania,
Campbell and his son, Alexander, and the Christian Association
established the Brush Run Church, which, in 1815, became part of a
nearby Baptist Association.
Reformers and the Baptists differed on key
issues. By 1830, the Reformers cut their last ties with the Baptist
Association and became known as "Disciples."
Thomas Campbell's passion for
Christian unity is summed up in his proclamation that : "The church
of Christ upon earth is essentially, intentionally, and
constitutionally one." This statement is the first and key
proposition of Thomas Campbell's Declaration and Address, a work
called by some the "Magna Charta" of the movement that
preceded the
denomination known as
the Christian
Church (Disciples of
Christ).
Of course, if there are
Christians IN ALL THE SECTS then Thomas Campbell insisted that they
COME OUT OF BABYLON. See
the Lunenberg Letters which drives the UNIVERSALISTS among us
looney.
The Campbells were
capable of growth and RESTORATIONISM insists that we restore or
reform by teaching that which has been taught. The Campbells NEVER
thought of uniting with people obviously in error except in the sense
Thomas Campbell understood church as "A school of the Bible" and
worship as "reading and discussing the Bible."
Thomas Campbell Worship in Spirit and in
Truth
Thomas Campbell Worship and Baptism
Stoneites, on the other hand
and to be faithful to Stone, seek to restore the CANE RIDGE
experience and have no interest in restoring the church to the
principles laid down by Jesus Christ who died to form HIS own
ekklesia or synagogue where the twos and threes can "come learn of
me" without the laded burden of 'spiritual anxiety created by
religious ritual' and most assuredly the burden of a dominant
"pastor" and a non-teaching bishoprick which John Calvin also
RESTORED.
NAMING and creating a new SECTARIAN
division named the Stone Campbell
Movement is an effort to restore the revival and nature of the church
which surfaced primarily at Cane
Ridge, Kentucky and led by Barton W.
Stone.
This was a charismatic or
"threskia" form of worship which had its origin in Orpheus, Dionysus
(the new wineskin god), the Lesbian singers. Whereas the hymns or
poems of Homer would be recited skillfully as the only way to honor
Homer, the Lesbian singers added tunes and instruments to make Homer
into a sexual entertainer.
Christian worship and defined by the Campbell
Movement was in the human spirit and not in temples made with human
hands or by rituals using human hands.
At the same time the Movement intends to
silence the CAMPBELL-STONE understanding where restoration meant to
functon as a church following the principles laid down in the Bible
by Jesus Christ and the inspired apostles.
For whom did Jesus
pray to be united? Let his words answer. "Sanctify them through thy
truth: thy word is truth. As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I
also sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself,
that they also might be sanctified through the truth. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also
which shall believe on me through their word; that they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in
me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us; that the world
may believe that thou hast sent me" (John 17:17-21). Jesus prayed for
the sanctified believers to be united. Who are these? The
truth
sanctifies (John
17:17). For one to be sanctified by truth, he must obey that truth (Rom. 6:17-18). To sanctify is to
set aside or
apart. In Romans 6 Paul
shows exactly how and when this happens. In Romans 6:18 Paul wrote,
"Being then made free from sin...." Then is an adverb of time which
indicates without question when the Romans had been set aside. It is
when they had "...obeyed
from the heart that
form of doctrine which was delivered you" (Rom. 6:17). Romans 6:3-7
clarifies this a bit more. In obedience to truth (God's word, not human doctrine) one is sanctified
and justified by God. These people are added by God to the church or
kingdom and these are the people our Lord prays for in John 17,
not the religious world
in general.
Charles Pledge
The STONE dominance intends to put UNITY of
believers under one heading by compromizing Biblical truths. Barton
W. Stone considered merging with the REFORMERS led by the Campbells
and many others "as the noblest act of my life." This was because
UNION was achieved while Stone radically differed from the
Reformers.
NO UNITY WITH THE WISE
John 16:3 And these things will they do unto you,
because
they have not known the Father, nor me. Luke 10:21 In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit,
and said, I thank thee, O Father,
Lord of heaven and earth,
that thou
hast hid these things from the WISEand prudent,
and hast
revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so
it seemed good in thy sight.
Sophis-tēs
, A. master of one's craft,
adept, expert, of diviners, Hdt.2.49;
of poets, “meletan
sophistais
prosbalon”
Pi.I.5(4).28,
cf. Cratin.2;
of musicians, “sophistēs
. . parapaiōn
khelun”
with modal words added, “hoi
s.
tōn
hierōn
melōn”
Melon Melos Vocal and instrumental music [Never
in the Bible]
Hieros I. filled
with or manifesting divine power,
supernatural, omens afforded by sacrifice. c.
generally, sacred objects or rites,
cult images
NO UNITY WITH THE WORLD FOR WHOM JESUS WILL NOT EVEN PRAY
John 17:6 I have
manifested thy name unto the men
which thou gavest me
out
of the WORLD thine
they were, and thou gavest
them me;
and they have kept thy word.
John 17:9 I pray for them: I
PRAY NOT FOR THE WORLD
(Kosmos,
Sophists, performing artists)
but for them which thou hast given me;
for they are thine.
John
17:11 And now I am no more in the world,
but these
are in the world,
and I come to thee. Holy
Father, keep through thine own name
those
whom
thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
John 17:12
While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that
thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost,
but the son
of
perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
John 17:13 And now come I to
thee; and these things I speak in the world,
that they might have my
joy fulfilled in themselves.
John
17:14 I have given them thy word;
and the world hath
hated them, because they are not of the world,
even as I am not of the world.
John 17:15 I pray not that thou
shouldest take them out of the world,
but that thou shouldest keep
them from the evil.
John 17:16 They are not of the
world, even as I am not of the world.
The Spirit is not a third member of a god family:
John 14:17 Even the Spirit OF
truth; whom the WORLD
cannot receive,
because
it seeth him not, neither knoweth him:
but ye know
him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
THE WORLD
