tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63223562797564911692024-03-05T08:06:24.985-08:00Book Club FellowshipUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322356279756491169.post-37666620893013402302013-03-30T19:04:00.000-07:002013-03-30T19:15:38.477-07:00A MAN AS PRIEST IN HIS HOME The Preeminent Challenge Facing Every Christian Husband and Father<b><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>For those of us doing the study, read the first chapter and comment at your leisure.</i></span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"THIS IS A GREAT BOOK TO USE FOR A MEN'S STUDY GROUP, It is also a book for a father to use with older sons, to help prepare them for marriage and family. It is simple and straightforward, and always rooted in the text of Holy Scripture." - Michael Gaydosh, founder of Solid Grouind Christian Books<br /><img border="0" height="6" src="http://www.solid-ground-books.com/art/px_trans.gif" width="1" /><br />This important book begins with these words - "The concern in this book is rooted in the great calling to serve one another. As Christian husbands and fathers, how should we view our ministry to our family? When our teenager has just vaulted into the annals of history with the stupidity and sinfulness of his behavior, how should we respond? When we let our wives down, how do we respond? When our families are struggling, how do we help them? What kind of ministry should we have in our home?<br /><img border="0" height="6" src="http://www.solid-ground-books.com/art/px_trans.gif" width="1" /><br />To support the ultimate conclusion of this book that a man serves as a priest in his home, we must begin with the idea that all Christian ministry is priestly in character. When we talk about ministry, we're referring not just to the official duties of pastors, but to the whole spectrum of dealings among Christians, including such things as counseling, teaching, praying, rebuking, encouraging, helping, etc. To prove the idea that all Christian ministry is priestly in character, we'll look at four arguments."<br /><img border="0" height="6" src="http://www.solid-ground-books.com/art/px_trans.gif" width="1" /><br />Waldron and Hoak then walk us through ten concise but meaty chapters intended to define what it means for a man to be priest in his home, defend this position against attacks from inside and outside the church, and describe how this priestly work is to be carried out in the midst of a family stained by sin. This is a challenging book which concludes with a strong word of HOPE in the closing chapter.<br /><img border="0" height="6" src="http://www.solid-ground-books.com/art/px_trans.gif" width="1" /><br />TABLE OF CONTENTS<br /><img border="0" height="6" src="http://www.solid-ground-books.com/art/px_trans.gif" width="1" /><br />1. PRIESTLY MINISTRY - The Heart of Christian Service<br /><img border="0" height="6" src="http://www.solid-ground-books.com/art/px_trans.gif" width="1" /><br />2. THE SCRIPTURAL WARRANT - Old Testament, New Testament & Christ<br /><img border="0" height="6" src="http://www.solid-ground-books.com/art/px_trans.gif" width="1" /><br />3. THE CLASSIC PORTRAIT - The Example of Job<br /><img border="0" height="6" src="http://www.solid-ground-books.com/art/px_trans.gif" width="1" /><br />4. PRIESTLY ROLE # 1 - A Man as an Intercessor in Prayer<br /><img border="0" height="6" src="http://www.solid-ground-books.com/art/px_trans.gif" width="1" /><br />5. PRIESTLY ROLE # 2 - A Man as a Director of Religious Worship<br /><img border="0" height="6" src="http://www.solid-ground-books.com/art/px_trans.gif" width="1" /><br />6. PRIESTLY ROLE # 3 - A Man as a Mediator of Divine Blessing<br /><img border="0" height="6" src="http://www.solid-ground-books.com/art/px_trans.gif" width="1" /><br />7. PRIESTLY ROLE # 4 - A Man as an Instructor in Sacred Scripture<br /><img border="0" height="6" src="http://www.solid-ground-books.com/art/px_trans.gif" width="1" /><br />8. PRIESTLY ROLE # 5 - A Man as a Judge in Holy Things<br /><img border="0" height="6" src="http://www.solid-ground-books.com/art/px_trans.gif" width="1" /><br />9. SPIRITUAL QUALIFICATIONS - Blamelessness, Compassion & Faithfulness<br /><img border="0" height="6" src="http://www.solid-ground-books.com/art/px_trans.gif" width="1" /><br />10. HOPE FOR A MAN AS A PRIEST IN HIS HOME<br /><img border="0" height="6" src="http://www.solid-ground-books.com/art/px_trans.gif" width="1" /><br />The book concludes with the following encouragement: "How will we ever become the kind of man God wants us to be? Again and again, when our sins are set before us, and we feel our weakness, our lack of compassion, our inconsistency and defectiveness, those issues should drive us back to Jesus Christ. He is the one who says, 'He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, 'From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.'' He is the one who, as Paul says, will transform us from glory to glory when we behold Him (2 Corinthians 3:18).<br /><img border="0" height="6" src="http://www.solid-ground-books.com/art/px_trans.gif" width="1" /><br />That transformation takes place when we live in the presence of Jesus Christ. Like Moses, who dwelt in the presence of God's glory on the mountain, our faces will shine with His glory. We have to live with Christ. We've got to wake up with Him. We've got to walk with Him. We've got to end the day with Him. We have to be with Him always. We have to read His Word and speak to Him. As we do, the glory of what Christ is as a priest will begin to enlighten us as well. May God grant it to be so for each one of us."</span><br />
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Read the following sections of the book and post any thoughts you have in the comment section. I will post a heading that relates to the chapters we are planning to discuss and send a notification two days before we begin our discussion. Remember to read the foot notes by Boston as you go along as well.</div>
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There are things that are well worth discussing as we go along in the book. Hopefully some thought provoking discussions will develop along the way and our understanding of doctrine will be edifying, expanded, cleaned up and most of all God glorifying.. Below I have listed a review of the book written by Nathan Pitchford. The review sums up the book very well. There is much to be gained and well worth the time devoted to Reading this book. The notes by Thomas Boston could be published into a book themselves.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe3Y45HJ-Ur3iLXIuNi8A1kCDyfTsLdz-zXZtPnnvJ4qVREPs_N8rvXmOcUH337-JkT3I_Ac9Xy5QDWEc-6GBZ8DBwsU4nYrGwLx5VWXuxac74Rhd4ZR-yLXNQcK_qNgQd9NXrVUjscO2E/s1600/marrow+book.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe3Y45HJ-Ur3iLXIuNi8A1kCDyfTsLdz-zXZtPnnvJ4qVREPs_N8rvXmOcUH337-JkT3I_Ac9Xy5QDWEc-6GBZ8DBwsU4nYrGwLx5VWXuxac74Rhd4ZR-yLXNQcK_qNgQd9NXrVUjscO2E/s200/marrow+book.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Throughout Church history, there has been a constant tendency, new with every generation, to fall into one or the other of the twin errors of legalism and antinomianism. I know of perhaps no other text that better addresses both of these dangers from a wise, biblical, and evangelical perspective than Edward Fisher's </span><em style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Marrow of Modern Divinity</em><span style="font-family: Georgia;">. Anyone who reads this classic volume will come away much richer in the knowledge of the gospel; with a deeper understanding of the unity of the biblical message as a whole; and vastly better able to pursue a genuinely Christian life in a manner solidly rooted in the true gospel. This new and well done publication of the</span><em style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Marrow</em><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> is a considerable boon to the modern Church, which I hope will be taken full advantage of.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><br style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Fisher's </span><em style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Marrow</em><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> is an unusual book, structured in the form of two dialogues. The first is between Evangelista, a gospel minister, Neophytus, a recent convert, and two false Christians, Nomista (a legalist) and Antinomista (an antinomian). The second dialogue is between Evangelista, Neophytus, and Nomologista, a “Prattler of the Law”. In the first dialogue, the gospel minister, Evangelista, in order to address the confusion caused by the false perspectives of Nomista and Antinomista, describes the threefold perspective of the Law as revealed in the Bible: the Law of Works, which says, “Do this, and live”; the Law of Faith, which promises free pardon in the gospel; and the Law of Christ, which says, “Live, and do this”. The first two portions lay out the redemptive-historical, covenantal understanding of the gospel in as clear and helpful a fashion as is likely to be found anywhere; and the last of the three gives immensely practical guidance for living the Christian life in a manner that does not deny the gospel either by despising the Law and living in sin or by coming back under the Law as a Covenant of Works.</span><br style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia;">The second dialogue, which gives a very thorough explanation of the Decalogue, and indicates the proper way of putting it to use when dealing either with an unbeliever or with a genuine Christian, is also quite helpful. The vast extent to which the ten commandments reach is very helpfully described – much to the discomfiture of the legalist – on the basis of six principles: first, “where any evil is forbidden, the contrary good is commanded; and where any good is commanded, the contrary evil is forbidden”. Second, in every specific commandment “all of the same kind or nature [of action] is comprehended”. Third, the law is “spiritual, reaching to the very heart and soul”. Fourth, the law “must not only be the rule of our obedience, but it must also be the reason of it”. Fifth, obedience to the law must be directed to the end “that God alone may be glorified by us”. And finally, “we must be careful to do all our actions after a right manner”. After giving these premises, Evangelista describes in order the full import of each of the ten commandments, with great insight, showing how vast and all-inclusive is their extent; and with them, he adeptly breaks down Nomologista's self-sufficiency, but comforts Neophytus with the free grace of the Gospel.</span><br style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia;">One of the elements of Fisher's treatment of the gospel that I found particularly encouraging was the thoroughly Christ-centered treatment he made of the Old Testament. Without a true and genuine knowledge of Christ, interwoven throughout every page of the Hebrew scriptures, there is no profit to be had, either for us or for the Old Testament saints before us. “There is no question,” he says, “but every spiritual believing Jew, when he brought his sacrifice to be offered, and, according to the Lord's command, laid his hands upon it whilst it was yet alive (Lev. 1:4), did, from his heart, acknowledge that he himself had deserved to die, but by the mercy of God he was saved, and his desert laid upon the beast [typically]; and as that beast was to die, and to be offered in sacrifice for him, </span><em style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">so did he believe that the Messiah should come and die for him, upon whom he put his hands, that is, laid all his iniquities by the hand of faith</em><span style="font-family: Georgia;">” (emphasis mine). Much more of the same could be adduced, but the sum of it is this, that the whole bible, when Fisher is speaking of the Law of Faith, or in other words, the gospel, is treated in a truly evangelical manner, which is very refreshing to see.</span><br style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Fisher is also very gospel-centered in his teaching on sanctification, or in other words, how the believer is still subject to the Law, not as a law of works, but as the law of Christ. Although there is a sense in which the believer is under the law, it is never divorced from his gospel-freedom from the law. This makes for some very powerful and practical teaching on the Christian life. “If a man will go about this great work, to change his life, to get victory over any sin, that it may not have dominion over him, to have his conscience purged from dead works and to be made partaker of the divine nature, </span><em style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">let him not go about it as a moral man</em><span style="font-family: Georgia;">; that is, let him not consider what commandments there are, what the rectitude is which the law requires, and how to bring his heart to it; but let him go about it as a Christian, that is, let him believe the promise of pardon, in the blood of Christ; </span><em style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">and the very believing the promise will be able to cleanse his heart from dead works</em><span style="font-family: Georgia;">” (emphasis mine).</span><br style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia;">When you read Fisher's work, and in particular this edition of it, you will come away with much more than just Fisher's (significant!) wisdom; for Fisher himself mined the treasures of all the Reformers before him, and he quotes extensively from Luther, Calvin, and others; and in this edition, the very extensive commentary of Thomas Boston (one of the greatest Puritans) is included in an easy-to-follow format. Boston's comments alone would be worth purchasing, and contribute no small incentive to acquiring the </span><em style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Marrow</em><span style="font-family: Georgia;">. I hope may readers will put this treasure trove to good use.</span></span><br />
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