http://www.boarsheadtavern.com/archives/2006/05/24/1741392.html “The Church must be free to be poor in order to minister among the poor. The Church must trust the Gospel enough to come among the poor with nothing to offer the poor except the Gospel, except the power to discern and the courage to expose the Gospel as it is already mediated in the life of the poor…When the Church has the freedom itself to be poor among the poor, it will know how to use what riches it has. When the Church has that freedom, it will know also how to minister among the rich and powerful. When the Church has that freedom, it will be a missionary people again in all the world. When the Church has the freedom to go out into the world with merely the Gospel to offer the world, then it will know how to use whatever else it has–money and talent and buildings and tapestries and power in politics–as sacraments of its gift of its own life to the world, as tokens of the ministry of Christ.” -William Stringfellow (HT to Nate Spencer) Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:53:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://www.boarsheadtavern.com/archives/2006/05/24/1741392.html#comment-6164 Sacred Journey » Blog Archive » MilePost 5 Sun, 05 Nov 2006 01:25:47 +0000 http://www.boarsheadtavern.com/archives/2006/05/24/1741392.html#comment-6164 [...] With a million apologies to Monty Python, Matthew Johnson gives us The Knights of Reformed Orthodoxy. (HT: iMonk) [...] [...] With a million apologies to Monty Python, Matthew Johnson gives us The Knights of Reformed Orthodoxy. (HT: iMonk) [...]

]]> http://www.boarsheadtavern.com/archives/2006/05/24/1741392.html#comment-6148 internetmonk.com » Blog Archive » The Passion of the Haggard Part II Sat, 04 Nov 2006 16:15:35 +0000 http://www.boarsheadtavern.com/archives/2006/05/24/1741392.html#comment-6148 [...] 1. It’s remarkable that among some of the so-called defenders of reformed orthodoxy this is being reported as a failure of doctrine. Yes sports fans, that’s right. Among the Knights of Reformed Orthodoxy there are now multiple posts saying this happens, partially, because Haggard is an Arminian and a Charismatic, and implying it wouldn’t be as likely to happen if he were a good Calvinist. At the very moment the discussion should be that Christ died for our sins (thanks, Frank), or that we are totally depraved- the most obvious truths of the Gospel- we find ourselves on some irrelevant side road. [...] [...] 1. It’s remarkable that among some of the so-called defenders of reformed orthodoxy this is being reported as a failure of doctrine. Yes sports fans, that’s right. Among the Knights of Reformed Orthodoxy there are now multiple posts saying this happens, partially, because Haggard is an Arminian and a Charismatic, and implying it wouldn’t be as likely to happen if he were a good Calvinist. At the very moment the discussion should be that Christ died for our sins (thanks, Frank), or that we are totally depraved- the most obvious truths of the Gospel- we find ourselves on some irrelevant side road. [...]

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