Musings on Spiritual Matters

It seems that if I listen to older preachers, there is still a strong restoration plea in their hearts.  You hear it still talked about.  But my younger preacher friends, it seems that there is not as much of a focus on this old plea.  This is sad, the plea of giving up denominationalism and just being Christians.  We must still believe in this ideal.  Maybe we have moved in a direction of accepting denominationalism in the church, though I hope not.  But the idea of being united through the authority of the word of God is powerful.  Maybe it is because believe that the plea did not work.  If it did not, it was not the plea but the people practicing it.  This does not mean it is not valid any longer.  I believe it still connects to this age.  Unfortunately, perhaps the community church movement has done a better job of highlighting this idea than we have.  And what they are offering is not the true plea, it might be come and be one, but not truly one as there is no unity on the word of God.  There is a older preacher that I look up to by the name of Hugh Fulford, he wrote a excellent autobiography, and he sends out some excellent thoughts over email too.  In his writing, you can tell he believe this plea, and believes that this plea can help Christians all over the world.  I hope our next generation does not give up on this idea.  We just do not hear about it as much from them.  But we need to, it must be passed on to the next generation.

Related posts:

1. Teaching Restoration History
2. The Role of Religious Journals in the Restoration Movement
3. Emergent Theology or Restoration Theology
4. Philip Fulmer and Preachers being Fired
5. Praise to Preachers

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