Thank you for your kind words. I'm working on a book on this topic. If you'd like to be updated on its publication, you can join the email list at tomwadsworth.com/contact.
God bless you Tom. I am learning a lot from your work. Keep it up. This is what the church needs to be awakened and focus on the real issues to enjoy salvation and grow in godliness and spread the good news to all. I thank God for you!
Thanks Tom, really impacting. I'm watching the whole series, yesterday I introduced the topic to my father in law, who's a pastor, and I hope that he'll buy-in as well. Dr Tom, is there a way to have your doctoral thesis? Have you launched a book?
Thanks Tom. One question, have you found any present-day churches or groups of churches roughly aligned with your model of NT gatherings for edification?
Shortest answer: No. Short answer: "House churches" or regularly-meeting small group Bible studies. This doesn't mean that "all house churches are right, and everyone else is wrong," but a relaxed familial residential setting can set the right tone for a Christian gathering that can result in a healthy degree of edification. Longer answer: See Worship #7 What Do We Do Now? th-cam.com/video/CGPSQVoZrMg/w-d-xo.html
I respectfully disagree. Liturgy can be very edifying, and if it is edifying, it is necessary. Imagine a Christian meeting that follows this order: Bible reading and meditation, prayer, praise, Lord's Supper, offerings. This is a structure, a liturgy that teaches valuable truths: First God speaks to his people through the Bible, and then we respond with prayers and music. First, Christ offered himself for our good (symbolized in the Lord's Supper) and so we offer for the good of one another. It's easy for us to act as if we have forgotten these truths. But participating in this liturgy over and over can shape us into people that love to hear God's Word and pray, and are generous to others because we constantly remember Jesus sacrifice for us.
Thank you for your kind words. I'm working on a book on this topic. If you'd like to be updated on its publication, you can join the email list at tomwadsworth.com/contact.
God bless you Tom. I am learning a lot from your work. Keep it up. This is what the church needs to be awakened and focus on the real issues to enjoy salvation and grow in godliness and spread the good news to all. I thank God for you!
Your wonderful analysis is of immense importance and greatly appreciated. ✔️
Thanks Tom, really impacting. I'm watching the whole series, yesterday I introduced the topic to my father in law, who's a pastor, and I hope that he'll buy-in as well.
Dr Tom, is there a way to have your doctoral thesis? Have you launched a book?
Go to my website (www.tomwadsworth.com) and send me an email. I'll send you the full dissertation.
Who assumed it would be there? Why would anyone look if they weren't in the Roman or Eastern organizations, and did its absence change their practice?
Precisely.
last days doctrines are a good example of it
Thanks Tom. One question, have you found any present-day churches or groups of churches roughly aligned with your model of NT gatherings for edification?
Shortest answer: No.
Short answer: "House churches" or regularly-meeting small group Bible studies. This doesn't mean that "all house churches are right, and everyone else is wrong," but a relaxed familial residential setting can set the right tone for a Christian gathering that can result in a healthy degree of edification.
Longer answer: See Worship #7 What Do We Do Now? th-cam.com/video/CGPSQVoZrMg/w-d-xo.html
THANK YOU
I respectfully disagree. Liturgy can be very edifying, and if it is edifying, it is necessary.
Imagine a Christian meeting that follows this order: Bible reading and meditation, prayer, praise, Lord's Supper, offerings. This is a structure, a liturgy that teaches valuable truths: First God speaks to his people through the Bible, and then we respond with prayers and music. First, Christ offered himself for our good (symbolized in the Lord's Supper) and so we offer for the good of one another.
It's easy for us to act as if we have forgotten these truths. But participating in this liturgy over and over can shape us into people that love to hear God's Word and pray, and are generous to others because we constantly remember Jesus sacrifice for us.