tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20166943.post115919456601685057..comments2024-03-28T14:43:35.296-05:00Comments on Ministry and Music - Seeking the Old Paths: Partaking of the Lord's SupperR. L. Vaughnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10992710377193518029noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20166943.post-1165197752974052522006-12-03T20:02:00.000-06:002006-12-03T20:02:00.000-06:00Bro. Hoyt, despite your concern about Bro. Wimer's...Bro. Hoyt, despite your concern about Bro. Wimer's use of the John 3 proof text with the subject of regeneration, I assume you would agree that regeneration (whatever you believe it to be) is a prerequisite to partaking of the Lord's Supper?<BR/><BR/>Anyway, your comment got me to thinking about something. I am convinced that being born of the Spirit is prerequisite to the Lord's Supper and the true spiritual communion of it. But we do not have a spiritual stethoscope with which we can listen to the heart sounds of inner life in the child of God. So, from the church's perspective -- it is a credible profession received by the church as part of the evidence of the effects of regeneration that is prerequisite to the Lord's Supper. With this is the <I>assumed</I> status of spiritual life, which we cannot know infallibly.R. L. Vaughnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10992710377193518029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20166943.post-1165066070434244962006-12-02T07:27:00.000-06:002006-12-02T07:27:00.000-06:00Ken Wimmer makes the same mistake that many, many ...Ken Wimmer makes the same mistake that many, many do by equating the Spiritual birth in John 3:3 & 8 to that of regeneration. If Christ had intended to equate the two HE would have left clear cut wording; but to the contrary, HE left clear cut wording that shows that regeneration and the Spiritual birth are not the same. Hoyt SparksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com