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Mining the Archives: 1 Thessalonians and the Church’s Greatest Need

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July 21st, 2010

From time to time, I’ll be mining the archives around here. I’m digging up Bob’s best posts from the past. I’m hoping these reruns will still serve my readers. Today’s post was originally published January 13, 2006. Clergy over the laity mindset, excessive pastoral authority, a cultural lack of community,…

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Books for the Bullied: Recommended Resources Dealing with Grace & Legalism

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May 6th, 2010

My post yesterday, on “The Real Meaning of 1 Thessalonians 5:22” seemed to touch a nerve. Sharper Iron excerpted this line from my post: “1 Thess. 5:22 Often ‘Used As a Bully Club to Keep People in Line with the Group\’s Expectations’”. If that’s all you see, it comes across…

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The Real Meaning of 1 Thessalonians 5:22

Posted by Bob Hayton on

May 5th, 2010

Anyone with roots in conservative evangelicalism, and particularly fundamentalism, will have heard 1 Thess. 5:22 used as justification for all sorts of personal standards. Going to see a movie, drinking from a dark bottle, using playing cards, wearing facial hair (for men) or wearing pants (for women) — all of…

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1 Thessalonians and Churches’ Greatest Need

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January 13th, 2006

Clergy over the laity mindset, excessive pastoral authority, a cultural lack of community, an emphasis on individualism, market-driven church ministry philosophies, a modern consumer mindset to Christianity–all of these and more contribute to what I believe is the greatest need in churches today: the “one another” ministry. What is the…

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