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Instrumental Music

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

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Instrumental Music

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  1. Instrumental Music

  2. Two Theories of Authority The Church may do those things: 1. Specifically authorized Silence prohibits 2. Not specifically prohibited Silence permits

  3. History of Instrumental Music Acapella – as in the church 10th Century – introduction of the organ Reformation – rejection of instruments From 1800 to 1880: Protestant changes

  4. John Spencer Curwen, the Royal Academy of Music, 18 80: “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” History of Instrumental Music Acapella – as in the church 10th Century – introduction of the organ Reformation – rejection of instruments

  5. What Is the Church? The Universal Church

  6. What Is the Church? Christ Body

  7. What Is the Church? Christ Denominations? The denominational mindset is that there is one universal church and denominations are the members

  8. What Is the Church? Christ Denominations? Ephesians 4:3-6 II John 9

  9. What Is the Church? Christ Body

  10. What Is the Church? Christ Congregations? Early restorers thought that sound congregations comprised the universal church

  11. What Is the Church? Christ Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Early restorers thought that sound congregations comprised the universal church

  12. What Is the Church? Christ Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Early restorers thought that sound congregations comprised the universal church

  13. What Is the Church? Christ Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Problems: Hebrews 12:22-23 Galatians 4:26

  14. What Is the Church? Christ Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Problems: Where are the dead in Christ? I Thessalonians 4:13-16

  15. What Is the Church? Christ Body

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. Why is this important? Christ Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Churches could work together to accomplish purposes of the universal church

  19. Why is this important? Christ Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Congregations Evangelism – a work of multiple churches Solution – the Missionary Society

  20. The American Christian Missionary Society 1849

  21. The ACMS - Pro Expediency Example in Jesus & the Apostles Necessary for smaller congregations Results “Antis” oppose the gospel

  22. The ACMS - Con All sufficiency of the church Absence of authority for any united work Absence for any institution of the church Silence of the Scriptures Consequences of the ACMS Divisive Nature of the ACMS

  23. The American Christian Missionary Society Evolution Christian Women's Board of Missions 1874 Foreign Christian Missionary Society 1874 Committee on Church Extension 1883 Board of Education 1894 Board of Temperance & Social Service 1907

  24. The American Christian Missionary Society Evolution Became the United CMS in 1919 Today it is “an ecumenical organization of 17 Protestant denominations and approximately 200 Roman Catholic orders”

  25. Two Theories of Authority The Church may do those things: 1. Specifically authorized Silence prohibits 2. Not specifically prohibited Silence permits

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