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Study Resources
The below list of resources are what I have found to be some of the most helpful teaching on the relevant topic. I hope you might find some value in them also as you study these topics.
Jonathan Leijen
​Instruments in Worship
Rick Atchley - Both and Church
Randy Gill - A guitar player's life in the COC
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Use of Women's Gifts in Worship
Not Off Limits - Ch 4 Can Women Lead The Christian Assembly by Ross Cochran
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Rubel Shelly - Neither Male nor Female
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Churches of Christ - Heritage and Future
Books (email jleijen@yahoo.com to borrow one to read)
The Crux of The Matter: Crisis, Tradition, and the future of Churches of Christ by J Childers and Doug Foster
A Church That Flies: A New Call To Restoration in the Churches of Christ by Tim Woodroof
The Second Incarnation: A Theology for the 21st Century Church by R Shelly and R Harris
Renewing God's People: A Concise History of Churches of Christ by Garry Holloway.
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Bible Study Methods and Interpretation
John Mark Hicks - Searching for the Pattern
John Mark Hicks - Command, Example, and Necessary Inference
John Mark Hicks - Contrasting Two Pattern
John Mark Hicks - Reading the Bible Like Jesus
Rubel Shelly - Basics of Biblical Interpretation
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