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		<title>Effectual calling: the catch of Christ</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;As when a fish is taken there are two actions, the bait alluring and beguiling the fish with hope of meat. This is like the working of the word which is Christ&#8217;s bait; but when He wins us to dryland, then, when the fish is hooked, there is a real action of the fisher, drawing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westportexperiment.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3693329&amp;post=1033&amp;subd=westportexperiment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christ, the Savior of the world</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following passage is worth its weight in gold.  We would expect nothing less from Thomas Boston. * * * * In what sense Christ is Saviour of the world.  A saviour is a name of honour, and a name of business. It is an honourable thing to save and help the miserable; to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westportexperiment.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3693329&amp;post=1021&amp;subd=westportexperiment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Poor Christian and the Church&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Gospel & the Poor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following poem comes from a 19th century Edinburgh periodical, Tait&#8217;s Magazine.  It was written during the middle of a controversy over &#8216;seat rents,&#8217; a traditional way used to finance the ministry and infrastructure of the church.  The author of the poem expresses the sentiments of churchmen like Thomas Chalmers who were mortified at the increasingly bald commercialism of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westportexperiment.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3693329&amp;post=1005&amp;subd=westportexperiment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Burden bearing &amp; burden sharing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I was on a walk in the woods with my youngest daughter, the path occasionally turned too muddy for her.  Naturally, I picked the curly-headed motor up in my arms, carried her for a ways, and then plopped her down to resume her walk.  Not only was it natural to me, but for her as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westportexperiment.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3693329&amp;post=957&amp;subd=westportexperiment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brainerd&#8217;s catechizing of the Delaware Indians</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Catechesis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following comes from President Edwards&#8217; The Life and Diary of the Rev. David Brainerd (1743).  It in an insightful snapshot of the old Reformed discipline of catechesis and demonstrates how integral it is to evangelism itself.  * * * * THE method I am taking to instruct the Indians in the principles of our holy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westportexperiment.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3693329&amp;post=1014&amp;subd=westportexperiment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Spirit of God and the parish system</title>
		<link>http://westportexperiment.wordpress.com/2011/12/29/the-spirit-of-god-and-the-parish-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Ordinary Means Ministry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parish Theory & Practice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another stately quote below by Thomas Chalmers (1780-1847) on the parish system.  Here, he affirms the absolute sovereignty of the Spirit in the conversion of men, yet urges the necessity of ecclesiastical infrastructure for broadest distribution.  Without rain, there is no life.  Yet there is a place for &#8216;aqueducts!&#8217;  * * * * &#8220;The truth is, that whenever a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westportexperiment.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3693329&amp;post=994&amp;subd=westportexperiment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas &amp; the compromise of mission</title>
		<link>http://westportexperiment.wordpress.com/2011/12/23/christmas-the-compromise-of-mission/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://westportexperiment.wordpress.com/?p=983</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week, countless devout Christians throughout the world will celebrate the birth of the Savior.  Believers of every stripe revel in that great redemptive moment of the incarnation.  It marked the entrance of God into our sin-blighted world.  The Only-Begotten Son then began His saving errand by the gateway of the virgin&#8217;s womb.  It grieves these sincere believers when Jesus, &#8216;the reason for the season,&#8217; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westportexperiment.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3693329&amp;post=983&amp;subd=westportexperiment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;This is the glory of the Parochial System&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://westportexperiment.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/this-is-the-glory-of-the-parochial-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Every man is justly held to be morally responsible, to a certain extent, for the state of his own parish. This is the glory of the Parochial System. Whilst it leaves any man to dissent from the Church, who chooses, it makes sure, if carried out properly, that every man in the land, in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westportexperiment.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3693329&amp;post=971&amp;subd=westportexperiment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If you build it, they won&#8217;t come!</title>
		<link>http://westportexperiment.wordpress.com/2011/12/13/if-you-build-it-they-wont-come/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Contemporary Parochialism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing more than a century before the McDonaldization of the Church, Thomas Chalmers (1780-1847) exposed the fallacy of faith in structures for evangelization.  It is a &#8220;Quixotic imagination, that on the strength of churches alone, viewed but in the light of material apparatus, we were to Christianize the population &#8211; expecting of these new erections, that, like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westportexperiment.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3693329&amp;post=949&amp;subd=westportexperiment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A definition of Chalmers&#8217; &#8220;territorial parish&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://westportexperiment.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/a-definition-of-chalmers-territorial-parish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 20:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Parish Theory & Practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Romance of Locality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A. C. Cheyne (1924-2006), a recognized Scottish Church History scholar summarizes the central ideas inherent in Chalmers&#8217;  &#8221;territorial parish.&#8221;  It was a &#8220;manageably small area housing a community of some two thousand souls who lived, worked and worshipped together, with a church and a school at its center and a minister and a kirk session to attend to both its spiritual [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westportexperiment.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3693329&amp;post=942&amp;subd=westportexperiment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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