By Vance . E. Trefethen Fellowship. Had I wanted to debate fellowship, I would have put it in the proposition. Leadership and authority. The argument that leader-ship requires private decision-making for others is wrong. Many leaders (e.g., evangelists, Bible class teachers) don’t privately decide collective activity. The negative assumes leaders privately decide everything, and since elders …
Monthly Archives: August 2012
New Hermeneutic Glossary
By Roy H. Lanier, Jr. It has been puzzling to me as I read some of the new papers, magazines, and bulletins seen recently across our nation. Somehow I have been missing something. I cannot quite understand what is being said. Then it dawned on me that I was not using the right dictionary. When I …
The Third Negative
By Tom Roberts The responsibility of the negative in a debate is to follow the affirmative and answer his arguments. I have done this and Vance’s proposition has failed. I will affirm a proposition in a second debate to be carried later in GOT. Fellowship: Vance labels as sinful the practice of elders making decisions. Will …
Mark 16:16 & Luke 7:29-30
By Jamie Hinds The debate over the necessity of baptism for salvation has raged for centuries. The bottom line seems to be, though, that baptism is according to the simple reading and understanding of the Scriptures absolutely essential to our eternal salvation. The Lord himself said, “He who has believed and has been baptized …