From: Jim Armstrong (jarmstrong@grand-canyon.edu)
Date: Sat Dec 21 2002 - 20:22:26 EST
AT - I hope you'll forebear my intrusion into this discussion again, but
your recent comment caught my attention:
AT: Far from it. Christian doctrines are discerned by the
faithful, and what is generally believed by the majority of
Christians can often be helpful in knowing the leading of the Holy
Spirit. Remember that the gates of hell will not prevail against the
Church.
Boy, does that sound right, that following the majority is a sound way
to find the leading of the Holy Spirit? I'm thinking a case might be
made that the movement of the Holy Spirit is exactly what draws us apart
from majority thought, striving against the tendency toward
revelation-resisting stasis of tradition on the one hand, and acting to
counter the ebb and flow of faddish and poorly-grounded popular trends
on the other.
Just a thought. JimA
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