Re: Church of Christ in Australia

Keith Mc wrote:

Gareth McCaughan wrote

Then you're taking a terrible risk, using the internet for Christian
discussions. There's nothing about that in the New Testament.

--
Gareth McCaughan

Hi Mike,

You quoted my name twice and then called me Mike. That's rather
strange.

I don't think it is a risk. with singing we are talking about worship
to God - now be ha better get that right, I am sure you would agree!

Only if there's some actual danger associated with getting it wrong.
Do you think God is going to get angry if you sing his praises with
instrumental accompaniment? There's no sort of prohibition of this
anywhere in the Bible (or elsewhere in the Christian tradition, other
than your own group and perhaps a few other even smaller ones). So
I really don't see what basis you can have for avoiding instruments
*other* than a general belief that whatever is not explicitly permitted
is forbidden. And if you have *that* belief then, yes, I think using
the internet is taking a terrible risk, and I don't see on what grounds
you say ...

using the internet is not quite in the same catigory

.... that it isn't. (That using the internet isn't something you do
for God's sake? But here you are, using the internet to spread your
ideas about how God should and shouldn't be worshipped.)

Just a question - by what authority do the things you do in your
worship to God.

Me? I'm an atheist. But when I was a Christian, I worshipped God
in whatever ways seemed to me edifying for me (and others) and
likely to please him. Since the OT is extremely clear about
encouraging the use of instruments in worship, and there's no
reason to think that that would have become a problem with
the arrival of the new covenant, and the great majority of
the church has always agreed, and the use of instruments has
obvious value in helping keep the congregation in tune and
in time, I never had any problem with it. Asking "by what
authority?" as if every action needs some sort of explicit
permission seems to me to be making a groundless assumption
about how one should go about deciding what to do. "No longer
do I call you servants ... but I have called you friends".

--
Gareth McCaughan
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