{"id":190,"date":"2007-01-05T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-05T21:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=190"},"modified":"2013-06-28T14:03:15","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T18:03:15","slug":"%e2%80%9creinvigorating-baptist-practice-of-the-ordinances%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Reinvigorating Baptist Practice of the Ordinances&#8221;\u009d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The journal containing my article by this name is now out. Mid America&#8217;s inaugural issue of Theology for Ministry came out just before Christmas. I have previously commented on <a href=\"http:\/\/rvanneste.blogspot.com\/2006\/06\/article-on-ordinances.html\">some of my thoughts<\/a> contained in this article.<\/p>\n<p>This issue is varied in perspectives and strengths, I think. Here is a list of the contents other than my article:<br \/>\n<strong>Hershael York<\/strong>&#8211; Defending the new IMB policies\/guidelines<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gerald Cowen<\/strong>&#8211; &#8220;Congregationalism and It&#8217;s Limits&#8221;\u009d<br \/>\nAn argument for congregationalism and against elder rule. Account is not taken of a role for elders within a congregational setting<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Hammett<\/strong>&#8211; &#8220;Patterns of Leadership in Emerging Churches&#8221;\u009d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Earl Waggoner<\/strong>&#8211; &#8220;A Movement Toward a House Church Ecclesiology&#8221;\u009d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jimmy Millikin<\/strong>&#8211; &#8220;The Nature of the Church- Local or Universal&#8221;\u009d<br \/>\nAn argument against an idea of the universal church<\/p>\n<p><strong>Timothy Seal<\/strong>&#8211; &#8220;Church Discipline: Recovering the Lost Treasure&#8221;\u009d<\/p>\n<p><strong>J. D. Payne<\/strong>&#8211; &#8220;Ecclesiology: The Most Critical Issue in Church Planting Today&#8221;\u009d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Gaines<\/strong>&#8211; &#8220;Worthy of Worship&#8221;\u009d<\/p>\n<p>And an excerpt from <strong>E. C. Dargan<\/strong>, &#8220;Ecclesiology: A Study of the Churches&#8221;\u009d (1905)<\/p>\n<p>As far as I can tell there is no information on <a href=\"http:\/\/mabts.edu\/templates\/cusmabts\/details.asp?id=23267&amp;PG=staff\">Mid America&#8217;s website<\/a> about the journal. If you wanted a copy you could contact the editor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mabts.edu\/templates\/cusmabts\/details.asp?id=23267&amp;PG=Directory&amp;CID=148625\">Dr. Daryl Cornett<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The journal containing my article by this name is now out. Mid America&#8217;s inaugural issue of Theology for Ministry came out just before Christmas. I have previously commented on some of my thoughts contained in this article. This issue is varied in perspectives and strengths, I think. Here is a list of the contents other &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=190\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;&#8220;Reinvigorating Baptist Practice of the Ordinances&#8221;\u009d&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3609,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/3609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}