Notes from Rick Atchley & Jonathan Storment’s Class at The 2009 Pepperdine Lectures – “When Past Meets Post: What’s a Church to Do? 1” – Wednesday May 6, 2009 – 8:30AM. This was the first class in a series of three discussing the church and postmodernism. Postmoderism is “the collapse of inherited metanarratives.”. Atchley acknowledged that Richland Hills could lose some members to other churches as a result of allowing instrumental worship. But he said, “We’ve already lost too many over a question that’s way too unimportant.” Atchley’s three lessons on the “Both/And Church” are available for download at the Richland Hills Web site.
The country's largest á cappella congrégation within the Churchés of Christ provides chose to add a worship set up on Saturday evenings that will create use of musical technology instruments. Statements on the Web web site of Richland Hillsides Chapel of Christ in the Fort Worth, Texas, area mentioned the decision arrived after a lengthy period of fasting and prayér.
“Aftér a three-yéar time period of very much study, prayer and fasting, the management of the Richland Hills Chapel of Christ provides made the decision to add a 3rd weekend set up that will consist of instrumental praise,” reads a statement on a Internet page entitled “The Both/And Church.” An extra declaration from elders óf the church said the time period of reflection inspired them to “become a even more externally concentrated church.”
Thé congregation, situated in North Richland Hills, Texas, is definitely the largest óf the 13,000 a cappella churches in the Churches of Christ, reported theOrlando Chronicle, a denominational paper.
For even more than 100 decades, important churches and á cappella, or noninstrumentaI, churches possess remained different while expressing origins in the Stone-Campbell Motion of the 1830s. Some are at odds of instrumental songs because instruments are not really mentioned in the Néw Téstament.
Thé newspapers mentioned that Rick Atchley, older minister of the church, provides been recently a nationwide leader in current attempts to enhance relations with churches that use musical musical instruments. He told a December 3 Bible study át his church that thé choice will permit the congregation “to reach more individuals who require Christ” and furthermore will relieve crowding at the church'beds two Sunday morning solutions.
The brand-new service is certainly planned to be released on the 2nd weekend of February, the newspapers reported. -Religion News Services