Comments on: Kitchen Tables and Interventions http://sbctoday.com/2009/07/30/kitchen-tables-and-interventions/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kitchen-tables-and-interventions A forum for Baptists to dialogue about how best to fulfill God’s calling in our lives. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:58:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Joe Stewart http://sbctoday.com/2009/07/30/kitchen-tables-and-interventions/#comment-8938 Joe Stewart Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:03:04 +0000 http://sbctoday.com/?p=1412#comment-8938 Debbie The need for community and the application of grace will cover such scenarios. Grace to you! Debbie
The need for community and the application of grace will cover such scenarios. Grace to you!

]]> By: Debbie Kaufman http://sbctoday.com/2009/07/30/kitchen-tables-and-interventions/#comment-8937 Debbie Kaufman Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:24:55 +0000 http://sbctoday.com/?p=1412#comment-8937 Joe: I too believe what you have written in this post. But, what of the man whose wife runs off with another man, who he thought was born again, but wasn't. What about the woman whose husband leaves her? Do we stomp down on them for something that is not their fault? This is my dilemma. What of the wife who is beaten or whose husband has cheated on her numerous times. What of many real life situations such as these in our churches today. Don't we in effect abandon them if we follow the prescription you have given? Joe: I too believe what you have written in this post. But, what of the man whose wife runs off with another man, who he thought was born again, but wasn’t. What about the woman whose husband leaves her? Do we stomp down on them for something that is not their fault? This is my dilemma. What of the wife who is beaten or whose husband has cheated on her numerous times. What of many real life situations such as these in our churches today. Don’t we in effect abandon them if we follow the prescription you have given?

]]> By: Joe Stewart http://sbctoday.com/2009/07/30/kitchen-tables-and-interventions/#comment-8936 Joe Stewart Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:15:03 +0000 http://sbctoday.com/?p=1412#comment-8936 Paul good insight and counsel Chris Hope things are well. Friends in Christ are for forever. Paul good insight and counsel

Chris Hope things are well. Friends in Christ are for forever.

]]> By: Chris Johnson http://sbctoday.com/2009/07/30/kitchen-tables-and-interventions/#comment-8935 Chris Johnson Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:11:12 +0000 http://sbctoday.com/?p=1412#comment-8935 Brother Joe, You have hit on a fundamental void in our churches. People have grown numb to the life of Christ. Many church folks just exist until next Sunday, with an occasional Wednesday thrown in. There is little thought of being one of another. Inattention to holy matrimony is but one symptom of this Laeodician disease. I think I understand your intent about the one man for one woman not being literally wooden …but.simply a plea to say “What has happened in our churches where we care little more than the world does about our families”. Your statement…. “The church being the church becomes what Lesslie Newbigin called the only hermeneutic of the gospel, a congregation of men and women who believe it and live by it.” … is so true. When the church is being the church is can’t help but heal marriages and relationships. When the church is being the church our conversations at the Kitchen Tables are filled with praise and thankfulness…instead of bickering and gossip sessions. When will we learn…. Greater is He that is in me, than He that is in the world! Good stuff my friend, Blessings, Chris Brother Joe,

You have hit on a fundamental void in our churches. People have grown numb to the life of Christ. Many church folks just exist until next Sunday, with an occasional Wednesday thrown in. There is little thought of being one of another. Inattention to holy matrimony is but one symptom of this Laeodician disease. I think I understand your intent about the one man for one woman not being literally wooden …but.simply a plea to say “What has happened in our churches where we care little more than the world does about our families”.

Your statement…. “The church being the church becomes what Lesslie Newbigin called the only hermeneutic of the gospel, a congregation of men and women who believe it and live by it.” … is so true. When the church is being the church is can’t help but heal marriages and relationships. When the church is being the church our conversations at the Kitchen Tables are filled with praise and thankfulness…instead of bickering and gossip sessions. When will we learn…. Greater is He that is in me, than He that is in the world!

Good stuff my friend,
Blessings,
Chris

]]> By: Joe Stewart http://sbctoday.com/2009/07/30/kitchen-tables-and-interventions/#comment-8934 Joe Stewart Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:09:58 +0000 http://sbctoday.com/?p=1412#comment-8934 Forever together not forever betrothed Forever together not forever betrothed

]]> By: Paul Kullman http://sbctoday.com/2009/07/30/kitchen-tables-and-interventions/#comment-8933 Paul Kullman Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:35:41 +0000 http://sbctoday.com/?p=1412#comment-8933 "The need is for the church to be distinct and different than the world around us – new creations in Christ." Joe: I believe this is what Paul was charging Titus in his epistle (Titus 2:1). The church needs to be the church for all believers who seek God's standard for living, serving, and sharing. Most of this epistle centers on what the church should be doing with its members and the effects from an outside world threatening to cause harm; false teaching included. How a modern church chooses to act as a counterculture is where the real hard work lies. Praying and searching God's word for answers to modern problems should be available to each member and not leave them totally to the outside professionals and worldly wisdom. “The need is for the church to be distinct and different than the world around us – new creations in Christ.”
Joe:
I believe this is what Paul was charging Titus in his epistle (Titus 2:1). The church needs to be the church for all believers who seek God’s standard for living, serving, and sharing. Most of this epistle centers on what the church should be doing with its members and the effects from an outside world threatening to cause harm; false teaching included. How a modern church chooses to act as a counterculture is where the real hard work lies. Praying and searching God’s word for answers to modern problems should be available to each member and not leave them totally to the outside professionals and worldly wisdom.

]]> By: Jason http://sbctoday.com/2009/07/30/kitchen-tables-and-interventions/#comment-8932 Jason Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:48:20 +0000 http://sbctoday.com/?p=1412#comment-8932 Joe, Just a minor point as i only skimmed the article, but do you really believe what you wrote in the first sentence of the third paragraph: "one man and one woman for forever". Unfortunately such a statement is a Mormon, not a Christian, doctrine. I assume that is a simple error of quick typing and not your actual position. If it is your actual position, I would be very interested to read your explanation, but I'm hoping it's just a mistake. Joe,

Just a minor point as i only skimmed the article, but do you really believe what you wrote in the first sentence of the third paragraph: “one man and one woman for forever”. Unfortunately such a statement is a Mormon, not a Christian, doctrine. I assume that is a simple error of quick typing and not your actual position. If it is your actual position, I would be very interested to read your explanation, but I’m hoping it’s just a mistake.

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