[box]This is the fourth post in my series “Stricter than God” you might want to read these first: Are independent Baptists stricter than God? What’s the matter with extra-biblical rules? What being stricter than God says about our view of scripture. What being stricter than God says about our God and our Religion [/box] All [...]

[box]This is the fourth post in my series “Stricter than God” you might want to read these first: Are independent Baptists stricter than God? What’s the matter with extra-biblical rules? What being stricter than God says about our view of scripture. [/box] Looking at the Bible, the two greatest sources of insight on the dangers [...]

This is the third post on my series “Stricter than God.” I’ve been talking about the danger of emphasizing extra-biblical rules and how that can make us stricter than God. I’ve spent my first and second post trying to define what I am talking about, in this post, and for the rest of the week, [...]

Yesterday, I posted about how Indpendent Baptists run the risk of being stricter than God. By emphasizing concrete applications of biblical principles, we run the risk of creating an extra-biblical orthodoxy that will have all kinds of unwanted consequences. I plan on writing about those consequences for the rest of the week. Before I move [...]