Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day
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What Does "Unworthily" Mean?
Chris Anderson and friends recently launched a new blog at ChurchWorksMedia.com. Starting today, the blog will appear in our SI Blogroll. To mark the occasion, we commend the article below as a sample of what you’ll find there.—Editor
Gathering with the Lord’s church to remember Christ and His work is a vital part of Christian worship and an edifying exercise for both the corporate body and the individual Christian. Yet, Scripture protects the Lord’s Table in 1 Corinthians 11:27, where we are warned not to partake “unworthily” (KJV) or “in an unworthy manner” (ESV). That’s important—so important that people can suffer illness or even death for doing it (v. 30). But what does it mean?
For many, it means bondage. Countless believers have spent their entire lives afraid to partake of the Lord’s Table because they doubt their own worthiness. Communion has become a time when they remember themselves rather than (or at least more than) Christ. They’ve been trained (in part due to the KJV’s translation, in part due to careless teaching) to focus on their relative obedience or disobedience in the days preceding the Table. The result is pride, or despair, or fear—but not worship! Gordon Fee explains:
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A secular perspective that reinforces Biblical truth
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“The choices we make in a moment involving honesty and transparency about OUR MISTAKES have incredible long term consequences.”
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G.R.A.C.E. Promotes Feminist's Article
I am beginning to suspect that the person running GRACE’s FB page may be a member of one of the “do right” groups because I am seeing a lot of these anti-fundamentalist articles that I am seeing on these other groups first and then making their way to the GRACE FB page.
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