My first bible after I was born again was a Scholfield that had been my grandmother's bible...Josh wrote:I carry a Scofield Bible which once belonged to my great grandmother. The notes in it can be comically bad in some places.
I think the Bible reads best without commentary - and instead for additional insight seeking it in a community of other believers to help discern the text.
Christian Fads
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Not sure how this was a Christian Fad. Homeschooling was the prime form of education through most of humanity. In reality, it was the private & public schools that are newer. Homeschooling also has become more popular since the 1980's so it's been a very very very long fad, if you can call it that.mike wrote:Home schooling
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These movies always bother me because I don't think that a Christian marriage should go to the "rocks" anyway. I know it needs conflict and climax for a movie, but seriously, it's supposed to be that a wife submits to her husband and the husband loves his wife as himself.steve-in-kville wrote:Josh wrote:
"Christian" movies like Fireproof
Fireproof is a great movie. Kinda a Christian version of Backdraft or Ladder 49.
(I was a volly firefighter and EMT for many years. I'm allowed to have such opinions!!)
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It has been a fad in certain instances. For example Conservative Anabaptist communities have run private schools for a number of years now. When the Charity Christian Fellowship movement impacted the conservative Mennonite church I was part of in the late 90s, homeschooling became a fad. If you were spiritual and cared about your children's well-being, you homeschooled. Sending them to a church-sponsored school was viewed somewhat as an abdication of responsibility on the part of a parent; or at best was a less-than-ideal option for people who for some reason were not able to homeschool.Chris wrote:Not sure how this was a Christian Fad. Homeschooling was the prime form of education through most of humanity. In reality, it was the private & public schools that are newer. Homeschooling also has become more popular since the 1980's so it's been a very very very long fad, if you can call it that.mike wrote:Home schooling
Some of the people who home-schooled did reasonably well and others less so. Some of them came back to school after trying homeschooling for a time. I was a teacher in the school at the time, so I experienced it firsthand. And I must say that I have no problem with homeschooling as such. My wife and I homeschool all of our children, and plan to continue. Just explaining why home schooling fits in the list of fads in my opinion.
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Reading through the entire thread two thoughts strike me- 1, I'm still not sure everyone understands what a fad is (some seem instead to be referring to 'trends'), and 2- A combination of impact + staying power of an activity determines whether it ends up being a fad, trend, etc.- not our level of distaste for same.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fad
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Nobody yet mentioned:
Wild at Heart - John Eldredge
Currently, Reformed Theology seems to be a fad in many circles.
I would add events like "Passion" seem to be faddish. I might even dare to add going to "Asia" on short term mission trips...Or maybe attending conservative Bible schools...Or singing advanced acappella music...
Wild at Heart - John Eldredge
Currently, Reformed Theology seems to be a fad in many circles.
I would add events like "Passion" seem to be faddish. I might even dare to add going to "Asia" on short term mission trips...Or maybe attending conservative Bible schools...Or singing advanced acappella music...
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You are not only kidding here. It was absent in SBC churches and schools 40 years ago, now most of the seminaries are reformed.joshuabgood wrote:Nobody yet mentioned:
Currently, Reformed Theology seems to be a fad in many circles.
Think Al Moheler
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How can it be a fad when it is 600 years old? It is just making inroads where it didn't use to be is all.Judas Maccabeus wrote:You are not only kidding here. It was absent in SBC churches and schools 40 years ago, now most of the seminaries are reformed.joshuabgood wrote:Nobody yet mentioned:
Currently, Reformed Theology seems to be a fad in many circles.
Think Al Moheler
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Or BMAJudas Maccabeus wrote:You are not only kidding here. It was absent in SBC churches and schools 40 years ago, now most of the seminaries are reformed.joshuabgood wrote:Nobody yet mentioned:
Currently, Reformed Theology seems to be a fad in many circles.
Think Al Moheler
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2017:
Admiral Acbon wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2017 10:19 pm Reading through the entire thread two thoughts strike me-
1, I'm still not sure everyone understands what a fad is (some seem instead to be referring to 'trends'),
and 2- A combination of impact + staying power of an activity determines whether it ends up being a fad, trend, etc.-
not our level of distaste for same.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fad
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