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Hello all:

I’ve been sick the last few days so I haven’t been keeping up the content. I’m starting to feel somewhat better, and hope to be writing more soon. I would appreciate any prayers that you can muster for me.

-Clarke

Hello All:

I’ve been doing a lot of work in the last few days promoting the site online to drive readers to it. Please pass on the url of the site to anyone you know in the church or anyone involved with the restoration movement in some way.

Also, if you would like to write an article to be posted on the website, please feel free to email clarke@clarkecomments.com.

There are now 82 links listed on the site. If you know of more to be included, please email me as well. We will not be adding links to individual churches at this time.

Also, if you know of any websites that represent the few charismatic churches that are affiliated with the churches of christ, please send me the url so I can include it in the fellowship section.

-Clarke

What I’m currently reading:
‘Who’ Before ‘What’ (A review of ‘The Jesus Proposal’) - The Christian Standard.

‘The Jesus Proposal’ was written by Rubel Shelly and John York, ministers at a former church of Christ.

The article is long, and I will not attempt to analyze it all. As a side note, I have not read the book, so I am relying on the information in the review.

Shelly and York’s argument for post-modernist thinking in the church is what is wrong with the change movement taking place in the church today. It is an argument for spiritual relativism.

While I agree that we as a church should definatly focus more on Christ and our relationship with him and our fellow Christians, Shelly and York are wrong here. They are being exclusive at a great cost. They argue that the church is not responsible for teaching true doctrine, and that a church that does take it upon itself to instill pure doctrine cannot focus on a strong relationship with Christ.

But, according to the bible, the church can focus on a strong relationship with Christ and still insist on keeping doctrine pure. The epistles to the churches in the New Testament not only encouraged Christians to take up their cross, it pointed out wrongs occuring in the congregations as well.

Shelly and York insist that false beliefs and teachings can “tested” by the congregation. The problem with this is the spiritual relativism that they are preaching. As long as members are unschooled in the doctrine of the bible, they will be unprepared to flesh out false beliefs and doctrine. As long as doctrine “feels right” to them and gels their experience, members will accept those false teachings. Shelly and York are doing a great disservice to the members of their church.

They are also doing a great disservice to all that read their book and carry out its proposals. They argue that the church, created by God, must change or die away.

Keep your bible close at hand.

-Clarke

Hello all:

Here at Clarkecomments I do not wish to always be on the war path. However, I’ve had a lot to say for the past few days.

I read these stories a moment ago, and, though very short and to the point, thought I would share them.

Harding Camp moves teens.

Local singing group ministers to prisons.

God is doing good things in Searcy.

-Clarke