Acts 29 Bootcamp Part 2

It was a real honor to be a part of this event. Grateful for all the incredible volunteers from Living Stones that helped pull it off.

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Huge thanks to prize winnning photographer Thomas Hurst for these shots. You couldn't meet a better dude.

Acts 29 Bay Area Bootcamp

A few pictures from the last 2 weeks. I took these on my D-90. I don't know anything about photography, as is evident below.

Scott Thomas (president of Acts 29) and Zimmerman.


Scott Thomas preaching at the Acts 29 Bay Area Bootcamp.


Q&A session with Scott Thomas, D.A. Carson, and Mark Driscoll.


Jeff Vanderstelt preaching at the Acts 29 Bay Area Bootcamp.


Mark Driscoll preaching at the Acts 29 Bay Area Bootcamp.


Matt Chandler preaching at the Acts 29 Bay Area Bootcamp.



D.A. Carson preaching at the Acts 29 Bay Area Bootcamp.

Jonathan Edwards on Bodily Worship

I don't suppose that any understanding men, of whatsoever sect or opinion, will say that God is really pleased with bodily worship as such, that is, that merely such and such gestures and motions of body are what delights him as a part of virtue; but only as they are helps to the exercise of real virtue and the worship of the mind. Now there is an indissoluble, unavoidable association, in the minds of the most rational and spiritual, between things spiritual and things bodily. Thus when we are joyful and express our joy, 'tis natural to do it with a lively voice; and when we express sorrow, to do it with what we call a mournful voice. This is natural to us, and the association becomes much stronger by use in other matters.

So we are necessitated to join some gestures to some habitudes of mind in common affairs, as uncovering the head, and some other gestures besides fitting with reverence. Thereby there grows a strong association, so that if one be restrained the other will unavoidably be restrained too. So that some bodily worship is necessary to give liberty to our own devotion; yea though in secret, so more when with others.

'Tis necessary that there should be something bodily and visible in the worship of a congregation; otherwise, there can be no communion at all.

...So many as are thus necessary, we are allowed in gospel worship, and more [than that] are contrary to its nature; for the gospel supposes the church to be no longer an infant, but as come to the stature of a man. Wherefore the weak and beggarly elements are rejected, and the childish bodily ceremonies cashiered, as being fit only for children, and unworthy of those who are come to riper years; and the worship that is now required of [us] is only that which is manly, rational and spiritual.

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Love this. Really, really love this.