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br> ABECS(AW) USN (Ret.) /p> p> FEARLESS LEADER br> Re: Mark Tooley's Asbury, Itinerant Leader : /p> p>Mr. Tooley writes an interesting and timely article, a quick look into the life and times of Asbury. Would that our once great country contained far more like Bishop Asbury today, and far less of what passes for leadership within the Methodist structure of today. The question that occurs to me is just this. If Bishop Asbury were alive and active today, would he be apt to lead a rebellion against what the Methodist Church and it's hierarchy have become, or would he simply form his own sect that returned the church to it's biblical roots of preaching the Gospel, the renouncing of sin based on the laws given to Moses by God Himself. Or is it possible that Bishop Asbury would have been so influential within the Methodist Church that he could have stopped the drift away from Scripture, and held the line against the secularization of Methodism. Mayhaps he would have been so towering a figure, so influential a voice that he could have helped to strengthen the good biblically oriented folks in other Christian communions. Then again, Billy Graham tried mightily to staunch the drift away from the Bible by the leadership elite within the Christian hierarchy also, and he only managed to slow the drift by an almost imperceptible amount. The mainstream of much of the Christian church in America certainly has left the teachings of great preachers like Bishop Asbury in their wake. br> -- Ken Shreve /p> p> RUNNING AT LARGE br> Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s

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