200th Anniversary of Thomas Campbell’s Declaration and Address
Monday, 05 October 2009
While I’ve often said that I don’t believe unity can be manufactured by unity meetings, organizations, and resolutions (because unity is a point of view, i.e., something that exists in the hearts of believers), there is something to be said for the ability of unity meetings to assist in changing hearts and minds. Diane and
- Published in Reviews, Thomas Campbell
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Parable of the iron bedstead
Thursday, 05 May 2005
By Alexander Campbell From The Christian Baptist No. III, Vol. IV. October 2, 1826 “Style no man on earth your Father; for he alone is your Father who is in heaven: and all ye are brethren. Assume not the title of Rabbi; for ye have only One Teacher; neither assume the title of Leader; for
- Published in Alexander Campbell
Dialogue and rebaptism
Tuesday, 05 April 2005
NOTE: The following is a dialogue constructed by Alexander Campbell in 1832 to illustrate his view on the popular practice of rebaptizing someone who had already been immersed, but without the understanding that his sins were remitted at the time. The issue arose because immersion had been preached and practiced for some time in the
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Foundation of Christian union
Thursday, 27 January 2005
The following is an excerpt from Alexander Campbell’s Foundation of Christian Union. I’ll put the last paragraph first to entice you to read the whole thing and bear with our brother’s generous use of commas: Let THE BIBLE be substituted for all human creeds; FACTS, for definitions, THINGS, for words; FAITH, for speculation; UNITY OF
- Published in Alexander Campbell, Commentary, Unity
The whole Bible is our creed
Wednesday, 19 January 2005
The whole Bible is our creed, but what exactly does that mean? This is one of the most difficult issues for any Christian to think through, as evidenced by the number of debates over creeds through the millennia. Campbell, in the Parable of the Iron Bedstead, was gently urging his brothers at the time to
- Published in Alexander Campbell, Bible, Commentary
The fellowship of the saints
Tuesday, 18 January 2005
The following is from Carl Ketcherside’s “In the Beginning,” Chapter 19 (Thoughts on Fellowship #7). Fellowship is not a fruit of agreement but agreement is the fruit of fellowship! Does the Bible teach that? Do we come to be in the fellowship because we are of the same mind, or do we come to be
- Published in Alexander Campbell, Commentary, Unity, W. Carl Ketcherside
Good Alexander Campbell quote
Friday, 10 December 2004
Here’s another Campbell quote that I will probably put in the sidebar. And just a reminder…no human contrived words are authoritative, but we are to encourage and edify one another. That is the only purpose in quoting voices from the past. “But men cannot give up their opinions, and therefore, they can never unite, says
- Published in Alexander Campbell, Commentary
Who is a citizen?
Tuesday, 19 October 2004
I thought this was an interesting clip from an Alexander Campbell article in The Christian Baptist. The article is a fictitious dialogue constructed by Campbell to illustrate the fallacy of thinking that one must be re-baptized for the remission of sins if they were not aware of this blessing of regeneration when first baptized. This
- Published in Alexander Campbell, Commentary, Unity
Brother, this is hard
Friday, 24 September 2004
As I think through the implications of the truth that all who are in Christ Jesus have a divine responsibility to be of one mind and to be patient and longsuffering with each other, I am struck by the difficulty of putting it into practice. I recently browsed the websites of various denominations which shares
- Published in Alexander Campbell, Commentary