Posted on 08/31/2013 7:51:32 AM PDT by darrellmaurina
I hope Clayton Bigsby is there in a leadership role.
Guys (and gals)... this really ought to be a subject for prayer. I know the church isn't a building, but preserving our history is not something foreign to Calvinists.
We have many people in our Reformed circles who are capable of undertaking this project by writing a check out of their personal bank accounts. Let's do something to preserve this building, and get it away from a group advocating views which are clearly contrary to Christian values.
The role of Machen as the intellectual leader of American fundamentalism was not minor. I'd love to see a college or seminary somewhere buy this building and use it as a chapel or museum, calling attention to the fact that biblical Christianity is not anti-intellectual but rather strives to take every thought captive — including those of college professors — and subject those thoughts to the crown rights of King Jesus.
Buildings of wood and stone do not a church make.
If said church building were in Detroit, and NBPP wanted to set up an enclave, would you want to remove your vacant building from their midst?
Seems weird to me.
**where ‘leftist journalists or antis’ who ‘come and try to make trouble’ will face arrest.”**
So would they arrest a Catholic journalist who would tell the truth?
Doesn’t sound good.
Agreed. This doesn’t sound good at all.
The building's location in a nearly-dead North Dakota community with about two dozen people (the mayor's current estimate, somewhat larger than the 2010 census number) makes church planting in that community unrealistic.
However, it also makes buying the building quite realistic, from a financial perspective — the cost will be very minimal and the main expense would be disassembling and transporting the building.
I've seen historical societies do a lot of work to preserve secular structures with quite a bit less significance, and I hope somebody steps up to do something with what remains of this church building.
LOL - perfect.
Maybe that says the truth about you and what you think Catholics believe?
You didn’t use, “Hey Andrew! Teach Me Some Greek!”?
And it's terrifying.
... but this little town of white supremacists is horrifying people.
But that doesn't bother you, right?
Jesus Christ: You can’t impeach Him and He ain’t going to resign.
My sense of perspective makes you think I'm a white supremacist?
I'll defend his private property rights. He can buy those buildings and sell them to whoever he wants — though now that the “word is out,” other residents are buying up all available property in an attempt to keep the town from being taken over.
What I won't defend is the vicious attacks being made on the internet against the town's one black resident, married to a white woman, based on nothing more than his mixed marriage.
That's wrong. Period.
Blame people for their behavior, not the color of their skin.
I take it the church Machen preached is the church shown at the site. This could be a beautiful church if restored but it probably would cost a great deal. Restoration work isn’t cheap.
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