Classical Artist

My attempts to respond to a meeting request by some friends here have repeatedly faileded, owing to a system glitch. Since I have no other way to reach them I post it here, leaving the names out.







Dear * and **,



Please forgive me for taking so long to reply to your kind invitation. The days have been getting away from me of late. I trust that after the holidays things will level off for me better.



Did you meet with *? How did it go?



Perhaps… Continue

Since I began on simplechurch something over a year ago I’ve had opportunity to discuss spiritual and biblical things with a number of people, here and in groups I’ve been invited to join by members or former members. This has been both enjoyable and challenging for me, to encounter ideas I have known about. There has also been exposure to terminology that has been new to me.



Or maybe it’s not that it’s new but that the forum format causes me to think on what is being said, when… Continue

The Simplest of Simple Church



There is something I don’t understand. Actually there is something very simple, very elemental that I think I somewhat understand, which is at the heart of things, and what I don’t get really is why other believers don’t seem to see it the same way. I think every system of biblical interpretation and every idea of “what’s it’s all about” anchors on some passage in scripture and develops whatever view of the big picture from there. For some the essential… Continue

Below is an article by T. Austin-Sparks that was written just before WWII that nevertheless seems timely even now, from http://austin-sparks.net/english/000006.html .



All Things in Christ

by T. Austin-Sparks





We take the Epistles and we think of them as having to do within the building of the Church and the churches, the superstructure of Christianity, and so we take the technique of the Acts and the Epistles as a technique, as a system of doctrine and a system… Continue