tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15388492.post171504751626626924..comments2024-03-27T20:28:38.015-04:00Comments on Reasonable Christian: Why Evangelicalism Is a Failure: A Critique of American, Australian and English EvangelicalismCharlie J. Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18185331029930925967noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15388492.post-57702161709297826322009-10-23T09:35:18.572-04:002009-10-23T09:35:18.572-04:00In fairness to Mark Thompson, I must admit that I ...In fairness to Mark Thompson, I must admit that I did paint Sydney with a broad brush. Overgeneralizing is not justifiable. However, from the film clip from ABC of Australia I observed many of the same influences in Sydney which we have here in the US. Seminaries these days are emphasizing church growth programs rather than sound exegesis of the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures etc. Contemporary Charlie J. Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18185331029930925967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15388492.post-47509142804936066402009-10-23T09:30:09.264-04:002009-10-23T09:30:09.264-04:00I hope you don't mind but I posted your commen...I hope you don't mind but I posted your comment in the comments under the article. I didn't mention women's ordination or the reduction of the sacrament to "mere memorialism" but these are serious issues for me as well. I think the Sydney approach is essentially to remove formal ordination, institute lay administration of the sacraments, and this will open the doors for Charlie J. Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18185331029930925967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15388492.post-71284072552376344822009-10-22T16:18:29.723-04:002009-10-22T16:18:29.723-04:00The trouble with Mark Thompson's view is that ...The trouble with Mark Thompson's view is that it confuses the biblical word "heart" with emotions. Gordon H. Clark has more than proved that over 70% to 75% of the biblical references to the "heart" in fact refer to "thinking" or the "mind." <br /><br />Thus, by Thompson's definition, "experience" must mean the intellect rather than the Charlie J. Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18185331029930925967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15388492.post-30588070581124906212009-10-22T16:10:04.648-04:002009-10-22T16:10:04.648-04:00Mark D Thompson has left a new comment on the post...Mark D Thompson has left a new comment on the post "What does it mean to be Anglican? V": <br /><br />Hi Charlie,<br /><br />I watched the program on free to air television last Sunday night and obviously, I know Peter.<br /><br />I think at points you have misunderstood him and at other points you have created antitheses where there need be none,<br /><br />The contemporary flavour of Charlie J. Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18185331029930925967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15388492.post-81299031075820978512009-10-22T16:08:13.651-04:002009-10-22T16:08:13.651-04:00This is PRECISELY what I have been trying to tell ...This is PRECISELY what I have been trying to tell my pastor but he refuses to listen. His sermons are only 20 minutes long and superficial at best. He does preach straight from the text. I give him credit for that. But he never seriously interacts with the text, tries to persuade anyone of anything, or tries to teach the sovereignty of God.<br /><br />I'm not the world's greatest Charlie J. Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18185331029930925967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15388492.post-86068959639112293432009-10-22T15:37:23.369-04:002009-10-22T15:37:23.369-04:001. Toss the Prayer Book.
2. Toss the singing of t...1. Toss the Prayer Book.<br /><br />2. Toss the singing of the Psalms.<br /><br />3. Toss clear-headed, vast and wide reading of the Scriptures.<br /><br />4. Keep the sermon down to a little homilette.<br /><br />5. Crank up the volume with the music.<br /><br />Whala! Church growth. Whala! In one generation, you'll have a house of ignoramuses, confident of their own narcissistic Reformationhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06818168068978748081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15388492.post-14026900385870093182009-10-22T14:21:00.686-04:002009-10-22T14:21:00.686-04:00May God grant you the grace to further His Gospel,...May God grant you the grace to further His Gospel, churchmouse.<br /><br />Romans 5:1<br /><br />CharlieCharlie J. Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18185331029930925967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15388492.post-88101974154608900122009-10-22T14:09:02.840-04:002009-10-22T14:09:02.840-04:00Thanks so much, Charlie, for your time -- I shall ...Thanks so much, Charlie, for your time -- I shall follow your guidelines for the blog. Much appreciated.<br /><br />I'm already persona non grata among my local clergy (regardless of denom) and that's with relatively little personal comment to/on them from me. They're very much into postmodernism, social gospel and the emergent church. I write for my ecumenical parish newsletter as Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15388492.post-10552183679588549432009-10-22T13:34:57.283-04:002009-10-22T13:34:57.283-04:00churchmousec,
Sorry if I mislabelled you. But I ...churchmousec,<br /><br />Sorry if I mislabelled you. But I read something on your blog in which you said you were Anglo-Catholic. Here in the USA that is a dirty word among Presbyterians and Reforming Anglicans. There are very few Reforming Anglicans here. In fact, I'm the only one I know of in my area aside from my rector, who is a moderate from the Sydney Diocese in Australia.<br /><br Charlie J. Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18185331029930925967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15388492.post-60871484533567552202009-10-22T10:51:45.821-04:002009-10-22T10:51:45.821-04:00Thanks -- I could figure out where you stood by re...Thanks -- I could figure out where you stood by reading your blog, which is one of the reasons I submitted my earlier comment. :)<br /><br />I've been an Anglican for 25 years, and no one (in the US or UK)talks about the 39 Articles and many people, particularly clergy, do not like the 1662 BCP. 'That's all in the past', it would seem.<br /><br />Given that this is the case, is Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15388492.post-37392778176465972182009-10-22T08:35:28.119-04:002009-10-22T08:35:28.119-04:00Thank you for this particular post - very enlighte...Thank you for this particular post - very enlightening.<br /><br />Not taking this short snippet at anything other than face value, I think the myth of Sydney as the unilateral "evangelical diocese of Anglicanism" has been burst once and for all.<br /><br />Just a few comments:<br /><br />Women deacons - no problem? On what theological basis are women denied the fullness of Holy Orders?Charlie J. Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18185331029930925967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15388492.post-36000250972242827432009-10-22T08:31:51.327-04:002009-10-22T08:31:51.327-04:00Thanks for your feedback, churchmousec. I am not ...Thanks for your feedback, churchmousec. I am not your typical Anglican or even your typical Calvinist. I consider myself to be something more in the line of J. Gresham Machen or Carl F. H. Henry. I would call myself a "neo-fundamentalist" rather than an evangelical or "neo-evangelical." These days Evangelicalism is so broad that anyone can claim to be an evangelical, Charlie J. Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18185331029930925967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15388492.post-87331633119067786642009-10-22T05:16:37.157-04:002009-10-22T05:16:37.157-04:00Thank you for this informative post. I fully agre...Thank you for this informative post. I fully agree with you. Unfortunately, many vicars, rectors and 'parish evangelists' don't see it in the same light. The laity would probably be interested, but their church leadership tells them that the 39 Articles are but a historic document, the 1662 BCP has nothing relevant for today's congregations, etc. <br /><br />It would be Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com