So Maybe I'm Rootin' for the Wrong Guy!

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I took a detailed survey at politichoice.com which is supposed to match my views to the proper candidate. And it turns out I might be endorsing the wrong guy!!! Then again, I’m pretty close to Huckabee after all, and way closer than to Sam Brownback, hmmm.

You should take the test too! Just click on the button that says “Candidate Match”. (They do require you to register, but you can opt out of receiving any emails from them.) [HT: A Buck for Huck]

Candidate Total Score
Duncan Hunter 84.74 %
Mike Huckabee 83.44 %
Tom Tancredo 82.79 %
Fred Thompson 81.17 %
Mitt Romney 78.25 %
John McCain 76.95 %
Sam Brownback 74.68 %
Ron Paul 68.18 %
Rudy Guiliani 67.21 %

 

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Huckabee Passes McCain in Iowa Zogby Poll

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banner_ilikemikered.pngGood news for Huckabee. In the latest Newsmax/Zogby Iowa poll, Huckabee passes McCain for fourth place at 8%. McCain only gets 6%. Romney expands his lead to 33% and Guliani (14%) & Fred Thompson (12%) duke it out for 3rd.

In May, Huckabee only had 2% support. This indicates that Huckabee is becoming more visible and viable as a candidate. Click here to view the results of this month’s poll as well as results from May, March, and January (HT: A Buck for Huck).

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Anybody For Some Football?

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I wonder if anyone would be interested in some fantasy football? I’d be willing to start a league for those of us who follow my blog. We could use Yahoo or ESPN, and of course it would be totally free.

Fantasy Football is really fun, and I’ve been playing now for 2 years. Football is the only sport that really matters anyway, and there are only 16 games (less for fantasy leagues). You can pretty much run your team on auto-pilot, but its fun to try to keep up with everything.

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The Baptizoblogodebate!

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Justin Taylor named this whole debate. It is officially the “baptizoblogodebate”.

It is a new era for Christian blogging, in my opinion. As Adrian Warnock recently said, “It is surely the first time in living memory that those who I can only think to call the ‘big guns’ have used the blogging medium to have a serious theological debate in front of the rest of us.” We are witnessing a conversation between John Piper, Wayne Grudem, Mark Dever, Ligon Duncan, and now Sam Storms. This debate has been charitable and enlightening. And we can thank blogging wizards, Warnock and Taylor for helping to facilitate. With pieces of the debate on Justin Taylor’s blog, Desiring God’s blog, Reformation 21 blog, Church Matters, Adrian Warnock’s blog, and Together 4 the Gospel’s blog–their summary posts have been very helpful.

Now for a quick update. Justin Taylor summarizes the main posts of the debate helpfully here. My post here, links to all my posts on the issue with their links to other posts touching the debate (such as Vern Poythress’ articles on young children & baptism, and summaries of the Reformed paedobaptist position). And now Ligon Duncan has begun a series answering the question raised by Sam Storms: “How can you be ‘together for the Gospel,’ but not together at the Lord’s Table or in church membership?”.

Finally, this debate has brought up the following question: Is Membership in 1 Local Church Biblical? I would love your thoughts on that last question.AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Is Membership in 1 Local Church Biblical?

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The baptism discussion is raising many questions. Sam Storms has entered the discussion and emphasized how the very nature of the Lord’s Supper would lead one to include all believers not engaged in gross unrepentant sin in the celebration of the Supper.

I ask how is celebration of the Supper different from membership in the local church? And even more pointedly, is membership in 1 local church biblical?

Where do we get the idea of a specific roll-call style membership? We see believers together in homes and meeting in different locales. We see a great amount of interaction and unity among various churches. Do we ever see separate churches in one geographical area? Do we have a basis for assuming that today’s world of thirty plus evangelical churches in the average Midwestern city (I’m probably underestimating the number, too) is a good thing?

Consider the fact that once believers join a particular church, they often forget about those fellow saints who attend other churches in the same town. And many of those churches have almost no ties with the other evangelical churches in their town. Is this advisable? Is this biblical?

My friend Nathan Pitchford discussed these trends in an article a while back: “Shopping for the Right Church“. He calls for us [see also the comments under that post] all to take some radical steps toward a practical togetherness focused on the Gospel.

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