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Instrumental Music. Two Theories of Authority. The Church may do those things: 1. Specifically authorized Silence prohibits 2. Not specifically prohibited Silence permits. History of Instrumental Music. Acapella – as in the church 10 th Century – introduction of the organ - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Instrumental Music
Two Theories of AuthorityThe Church may do those things:
1. Specifically authorized Silence prohibits
2. Not specifically prohibited Silence permits
History of Instrumental MusicAcapella – as in the church10th Century – introduction of the organReformation – rejection of instrumentsFrom 1800 to 1880: Protestant changes
History of Instrumental MusicAcapella – as in the church10th Century – introduction of the organReformation – rejection of instruments
John Spencer Curwen, the Royal Academy of Music, 1880: “Men still living can remember the time when organs were very seldom found out of the Church of England. The Methodists, Independents, and Baptists rarely had them, and by the Presbyterians they were stoutly opposed”
What Is the Church?
The Universal Church
What Is the Church?Christ
Body
What Is the Church?Christ
Denominations?
The denominational mindset is that there is one universal church and denominations are the members
What Is the Church?Christ
Denominations?
Ephesians 4:3-6II John 9
What Is the Church?Christ
Body
What Is the Church?Christ
Congregations?
Early restorers thought that sound congregations comprised the universal church
What Is the Church?Christ
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Early restorers thought that sound congregations comprised the universal church
What Is the Church?Christ
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Early restorers thought that sound congregations comprised the universal church
What Is the Church?Christ
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Problems:Hebrews 12:22-23Galatians 4:26
What Is the Church?Christ
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Problems:Where are the dead in Christ? I Thessalonians 4:13-16
What Is the Church?Christ
Body
What Is the Church?Christ
Christians!
The Bible expresses the idea that we are individually in the universal church from baptism until the return of Christ.
What Is the Church?Christ
Christians!
Romans 12:5 so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.1 Corinthians 12:27 Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.
Why is this important?Christ
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Churches could work together to accomplish purposes of the universal church
Why is this important?Christ
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Evangelism – a work of multiple churchesSolution – the Missionary Society
The American Christian Missionary Society 1849
The ACMS - ProExpediencyExample in Jesus & the ApostlesNecessary for smaller congregationsResults“Antis” oppose the gospel
The ACMS - ConAll sufficiency of the church
Absence of authority for any united workAbsence for any institution of the church
Silence of the ScripturesConsequences of the ACMS
Divisive Nature of the ACMS
The American Christian Missionary Society EvolutionChristian Women's Board of Missions 1874Foreign Christian Missionary Society 1874 Committee on Church Extension 1883Board of Education 1894Board of Temperance & Social Service 1907
The American Christian Missionary Society EvolutionBecame the United CMS in 1919Today it is “an ecumenical organization of
17 Protestant denominations and approximately 200 Roman Catholic orders”
Two Theories of AuthorityThe Church may do those things:
1. Specifically authorized Silence prohibits
2. Not specifically prohibited Silence permits