Wally asked for a Biblical analysis of clapping vs. the saying of “Amen”. Well, I did a lengthy study of the matter, and here’s what I come up with:
Honestly, if we’re going to criticize people for shallow arguments, it really helps to be proceeding from something else besides “no argument, Biblically speaking, at all.”
Now certainly there is a place for what Paul argues in 1 Corinthians 14, that things should be done decently and in good order, but blanket arguments without Biblical authority—really contra Biblical authority—don’t help us out here.
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Wally asked for a Biblical analysis of clapping vs. the saying of “Amen”. Well, I did a lengthy study of the matter, and here’s what I come up with:
Honestly, if we’re going to criticize people for shallow arguments, it really helps to be proceeding from something else besides “no argument, Biblically speaking, at all.”
Now certainly there is a place for what Paul argues in 1 Corinthians 14, that things should be done decently and in good order, but blanket arguments without Biblical authority—really contra Biblical authority—don’t help us out here.
Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.