By Robert F. Turner Like “Instrumental Music in Worship,” this topic has become aged and worn, and many may turn the page to something more current. But experience tells us both problems continue, and “Independence” is by far the least understood. It is not unusual to hear lengthy discussions on the “sponsoring church arrangement” where congregational …
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Will “Gentiles” of Today Be Saved Without the Gospel?
By Dan Walters Romans 2:7-16, especially verse 14, has been used by James Bales and other brethren to prove that alien sinners are not under law to Christ and are thus exempt from the marriage law contained in the Gospel. This verse says that “when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the …
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Otis Gatewood On Communism
By Dr. Fred Schwarz Otis Galewood was a prime mover in foisting the centralized sponsoring church digression upon churches of Christ in the 1940s-50s. In recent years, he has been hailed as a hero among brethren who are plummeting deeper and deeper into the abyss of apostasy. He is a promoter par excellence and speaks “great …
The Sad Life And Death of Abbie Hoffman
By Dr. Fred Schwarz Sin and suffering are satanic Siamese twins; the latter always accompanies the former. The evil genius of Abbie Hoffman enabled him to make sin appear glamorous, and he lured countless young people into a life of pain and misery through drugs and disease. Hoffman was an “activist” in the New Left that …