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Countersigns: the ultimate question? |
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11:47 AM ET
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Tuesday, Feb 20, 2007
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A church whose sign work has already found its way into this blog's little “Signs and Countersigns” series has another one up, just in time for a pithy rebuttal.
 Now, said pithy rebuttal: 
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Countersigns: Resolve to 'attend church'? |
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01:19 PM ET
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Sunday, Jan 07, 2007
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Driving home from my first attendance of a hopeful church plant this morning, I came across yet another church sign. This one contained a slogan even more weird and un-Biblical than the “Frequent kneeling leads to good standing” sign of the previous Signs and Countersigns installment:  The response to this is easy, based first on the definition of not only the word church (a gathering of Christ-followers) and also the entire material of Biblical epistles about the institution, and the precedents set in the book of Acts:  The Apostle Paul is clear in 1 Corinthians 14: 20-25 that Christ-followers can expect nonbelievers to show up during church services. But the context is that believers must avoid flagrant displays of spiritual gifts and such, maintaining order so that nonbelievers will be convicted. Scripture gives no indication that the Church must cater to, or even try to drag in, nonbelievers. Of course, the Church is not a closed-access country club. But neither is it a public-access, “come one come all, we don't care what you are” style of community center. |
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Signs and countersigns: 'Good standing'? |
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09:28 AM ET
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Thursday, Dec 07, 2006
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Spotted on the drive to church — though, not on the sign of the church to which I was driving.  In Churchianity, part 1: Speaking the Language of Churchese, I complained a bit about church signs with cryptic closed-captioned-for-Christians messages being way too confusing for drive-by viewers to get anywhere. But at least the sign I mentioned there referenced the Gospel, albeit confusingly. This is different. This is a sign that basically tells people — and people outside the church — an utterly false idea: that if they pray more, God will like them more. Not good. So here begins a possibly new blog “series,” consisting of fairly simple responses to signs like this. 
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