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Spiritual Amnesia
03/13/05
Kip gives a brief history of the
restoration movement from the 1950's through Boston in the 1980's.
Speaks of Chuck Lucas and the Crossroads Movement as well. He
re-writes history just a bit about what we believed as to Christians outside
the ICOC.
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Amnesia (11:33)
"....well, in 1967 in
Gainesville, Florida, kind of a sleepy little town of about 120 people,
uh, is the University of Florida. Now not everybody goes there is a Rhodes
Scholar but they are pretty good people I think, anyway. There was a young
minister in 1967 that came named Chuck Lucas and he started a pioneering
campus ministry. In the terminology of that day, he said ok every
student in the campus ministry in this sleepy little church called
the 14th Street Church of Christ which later became known as Crossroads,
we're going to expect each one of our students, and they started with
about 7 students, to be totally committed. That was the phraseology in
that day. We will count the cost before anybody gets baptized. We will
expect every single person to be evangelistic. We'll have every person in
what they call back then a soul talk. ...."
....We no longer want to
rip the wineskin by pouring new wine into old wineskins because after all
we were just ruining these churches, the wineskins, and ruining the wine,
these young ministers, cause it was shattering their faith, and they were
getting out of the ministry.
....now some people have critiqued our church and you'll see it from time
to time say, well we believe we are the only ones saved. Well no we don't.
We believe there are people out there that are baptized, saved,
disciples in other congregations. What we do believe we are unique about
is that we call every single member to be a disciple. And we expect every
single member to live the life of a disciple. .... "
People in Portland falling away
from reading the internet!
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Amnesia (1:12)
"You know this past
week has been a tough one inside the church in a couple of our
ministries. We've had some of the young brothers get poisoned by
people going on the internet and reading evil things about the church. And
they just took it on in, took it on in, took it on in, and stopped asking
questions. Stopped reading their bible, and they've fallen away. You know
when I heard about that and one of the ones was on the campus, I said, and
I heard about this over the last weekend, and I said ok, I have my bible
talk on campus at 9 o'clock on Tuesday nights, and I told Vic Jr. Dude,
get as many of the disciples to come as they can, we're going to do a
bible talk tonight on persecution. And so it was amazing, Vic's room isn't
all that big but we had 31 people crammed in this dorm room to hear the
word of God. About half were non-Christians, is that awesome
guys?
And I did it on the theme
of controversy. Now I just laid it out from day one Jesus was
controversial. His life was controversial, his teaching was
controversial. And I just said hey, you know, if you're not controversial
you're not like Jesus!"
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