Puritan said:
I apologize about my general sweeping statement. I did not mean to offend anyone. If I did I'm sorry. I was just expressing my opinions from what I've witnessed from Baptist authors and laity. But I was wrong to stereotype.
I'm just weary of anything being added to God's Grace. Yes I believe that our sanctification is a co-operation where we try our best to obey God's moral laws and biblical commands. But I also don't think becoming a Quaker is the answer. We need to be in the World and let our light shine even in the darkest places. I also believe that just because something is secular doesn't mean we can't enjoy it. But these are just my thoughts. I'm not really trying to prove anything, I was just sharing.
Dave.
To misquote Captain Nathan Battles in "She wore a yellow ribbon" You're not quite "Presbyterian" yet, mister... or you'd know never to apologize... it's a sign of weakness. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/rofl.gif" alt="" />
All seriousness aside Dave I've read worse comments about Baptists from JE, and he was serious about it. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
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I'd only like to point out a few things. Coming from a varied background with everything from athiests to greek orthodoxy amongst my relatives I've seen a lot of different churches. I've known some strict Wesleyan Methodist Church members that make the Missionary Baptists look like slackers, and there were some AOG that made them look like hedonists and I'm not talking about the Piper style either. In fact I was listening to Alister Begg on the drive home today and he recounted what his father made him do on Sundays
A Charge to a Man of God - Part 2A that my Father would have considered to be cruel and unusual punishment, this same man (my Father that is) would drag us out of our comfortable beds in the early hours of a Sunday morning make us clean up and wear ties, filthy nasty things that they are, comb our hair (what we had as a "pig-shave" was the standard haircut)and drag us to church. And he was a member of the ELCA the apostate Lutheran Church {that's for your benefit Speratus where e're you maybe}. So laddy what I'm trying to say in so many words is that the excessive do's and don'ts can be a matter of perspective. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/rantoff.gif" alt="" />
