
Thinking Fellows Go To Church
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Mar 29, 2026 A spirited conversation about why gathering matters for receiving baptism, preaching, and sacraments. They wrestle with legalistic attendance pressure versus occasional, understandable absences. Cultural trends like youth sports and livestreaming get examined for their impact on worship. Practical advice covers encouraging attendance with grace while protecting communal life.
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Attendance Is Not A Salvific Magic Act
- Church attendance should not be treated as a magical salvific requirement.
- Adam Francisco objects to rhetoric that frames missing Sunday as losing salvation and warns against turning means of grace into a legalistic idol.
Apologetics Conference Made Scott Miss Church
- Scott Keith describes missing his own church after teaching an apologetics conference because flying home would arrive after service.
- He uses this to show some absences are unavoidable and not evidence of losing faith.
Watch For Sacerdotal Drift In Worship Talk
- Rhetoric that treats clergy as uniquely able to bestow salvation risks sliding into sacerdotalism.
- Bruce Hilman and others warn some congregations emphasize pastoral character as a mystical conduit for grace.




