Comments on: Book Review: Worship that Pleases God by James W. Bartley

By: Terry Delaney

Terry Delaney — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:03:53 +0000

Julius, I don’t think my second paragraph makes any sense! I just read what I wrote and I don’t quite understand it. What I meant to say there was that the spelling and grammatical errors were not glaring in the same way they are in most self-published titles. However, you are not a self-publishing house (I apologize for that misunderstanding) and I am sure most of what I thought were misspellings and grammatical errors were precisely what you said were alternatives.

I hope that makes more sense than what it seems to have in my earlier comment.

By: Terry Delaney

Terry Delaney — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:08:05 +0000

Julius,

Thank you for taking the time to engage with this review.

My statement that the errors were not “glaring” is probably what you are referring to as spelling and grammatical alternatives. That would seem to support my personal conclusion that his writing style was sometimes “cumbersome.” I hope I was explicit in that these minor problems did not take away from the content of the book.

Just out of curiousity, I wonder how much of the alternative spellings and grammar have to do with Dr. Bartley’s international missions work? Having only been out of the country with the military ten years ago, I lack an international view of writing.

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By: Julius B. Adewopo

Julius B. Adewopo — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:21:08 +0000

Thank you for your review, Terry. Baal Hamon Publishers is not a self-publishing service. Although we are small, we are a standard publisher and we are growing. I’m rather surprised at the grammatical and spelling errors you refer to. Dr. Bartley has several spelling alternatives that are not conventional. We checked them. Even though most were rather old-fashioned spellings, we chose to retain them as a commitment to maintaining the author’s originality. The same applied to grammar. You can check again (I personally consulted the Longman dictionary, Merriam Webster, and Cambridge Online dictionary in most cases). If you insist they were mistakes though, you can kindly let me know which specific ones you refer to.
Thank you and God bless you.

Julius B. Adewopo
Editorial Department,
Baal Hamon Publishers.

By: Andrew Lindsey

Andrew Lindsey — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:49:22 +0000

Sounds great! Can't wait to check it out. Andrew Lindseys last blog post..Cool Picture

By: Terry Delaney

Terry Delaney — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:16:28 +0000

Andrew, I couldn’t agree more. What I was saying is usually people want to argue for the Regulative Principle using Scripture (which is correct) but only end up in a debate because of the term “regulative.” What I liked about Bartley’s method was that he simply let the scripture do the talking without mentioning any buzzwords.

By: Andrew Lindsey

Andrew Lindsey — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:07:41 +0000

Re: “Dr. Bartley sticks to the scripture alone as his guide and offers a biblical theology for what kind of worship it is that pleases, and brings glory to, God.”

-’Sticking to scripture alone as the guide and offering a biblical theology for worship’ is pretty much the definition of the Regulative Principle when applied to specific practices.

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