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How Radical Discontinuity Has Shaped my Ecclesiology

Posted in Ecclesiology, New Covenant Theology, tagged , on October 31, 2008 | 17 Comments »

This image is from ASBO Jesus.
This will be my short attempt to explain what I think about the Church. My ideas may be a bit different from many, but I would love to engage.
My introduction paragraph follows…. We are not under the Old Covenant but the New (Hebrews 8-9). Because of that, I don’t need [...]

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We Interrupt This Program…. A Public Service Announcement #1

Posted in Current Issues, False Teaching, Studying the Scriptures, tagged , on October 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »

We interrupt this program to bring you a Public Service Announcement! This just in….. Paul the Apostle does not agree with must of us who proclaim others are preaching a “false” gospel. Let me repeat that Apostle Paul does not agree.
Okay seriously. We have to be careful on two fronts. The first is the word [...]

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Who’s Got you Covered? The Same Person Who Covers Your Pastor

Posted in Ecclesiology, tagged on October 30, 2008 | 13 Comments »

One of the questions that I used to ask Derrick and Angela was about their spiritual covering.  It was a genuine question given my ecclesiology.  The question after decoded from its spiritual jargon is really “which pastor are you sitting under”. Derrick would tell me that he wasn’t in need of such “covering” because he was [...]

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Lord, I am Trying to be a Good Christian, but Christians Keep Getting in the Way!

Posted in Books, Christian Living, Studying the Scriptures, tagged , on October 29, 2008 | 55 Comments »

I am reading “Paul’s Idea of Community” by Robert Banks on page 53. He quotes 1 Corinthians 1:4-8:

4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but [...]

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Salaries, Pastors, Churches and Scripture

Posted in Ecclesiology, Studying the Scriptures, tagged on October 29, 2008 | 7 Comments »

Dave Black has a really good article here . Below is an excerpt:

I wish you could read every word of it. I especially enjoyed his conclusion:
Let’s show our love for the world by loving them, visiting them, helping them, praying for them, ministering to them FREELY. Only then will they truly know the love of Jesus.
Why [...]

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A Challenge to Husbands: Leading With a Mop & Broom in Hand

Posted in Marriage, Theology Applied, tagged on October 28, 2008 | 30 Comments »

If you really want to lead die! If you really want to die serve! If you don’t want to serve you don’t want to die, if you don’t want to die you don’t want to lead, at least not biblically. Dying to ourselves is the epitome of the Christian journey! Jesus gives many references to [...]

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I am Looking at the Man in the Mirror!

Posted in Studying the Scriptures, Theology Applied, tagged , on October 27, 2008 | 12 Comments »

I have never ever, ever, ever, ever, been a Michael Jackson fan. Sorry KM. I just didn’t grow up liking the dude. However, I can recall some of his songs because they dominated the airways and music videos. One was “Man in the Mirror” (or something like that). The lyrics says “I am looking at [...]

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A Historical Case Against Cessationist: Still Waiting for the Perfect?

Posted in Blogging, Ecclesiology, Studying the Scriptures, tagged , on October 24, 2008 | 12 Comments »

As you may know, I am not of the conviction that the Charismatic (still haven’t found this distinction in the Scriptures yet) Gifts ceased. I believe that they are in full operation today for the Church and until Christ returns for His bride when the Church will no longer need to be built. I believe [...]

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A Case Against the Quarrelsome Christian: How A Christian is to Handle Opponets

Posted in Christian Living, Studying the Scriptures, Theology Applied, tagged , on October 24, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Here are the imperatives:
23 Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels. 24 And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, 25 correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, 26 and they may [...]

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The Erosion of Wisdom

Posted in Christian Living, Current Issues, Theology Applied on October 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Here is the imperative:

5:1 Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, 2 older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.

I remember when I was a kid. I was lucky enough to meet my great-grandmother on both sides of my family and my great-grandfather [...]

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