“Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.” (Ephesians 5:25-27) Russell Moore says, “The Church is the …
Baby Steps
It’s not only unnecessary; it’s counterproductive when we turn the fireman’s hose of spiritual verbiage on people who just need to sip the Water of Life. Of course, we want to bring people all the way to a radical conversion on the spot, and there’s nothing better when that happens. But when that doesn’t occur, …
Somebody’s Watching
To What Kind of Christianity Do You Subscribe?
Jesus said: "Turn the other cheek... Love your enemies... Love your neighbor... Blessed are you when you are persecuted..." Feucht said: "We've got Jesus-loving gun-toting thugs on site. Mess with our worship time and prepare to die!"Gotta dig the divine love just oozing out here. So, here's what non-Christians think when they see stuff like …
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“If you confess with your mouth JESUS AS LORD…”
Seems more and more important these days…
“If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.” Romans 10:9-10
This passage, a favorite of many, I propose is one terribly misunderstood and misapplied for the sake of an easy believe-istic approach to salvation. Just believe that Jesus was raised from the dead, say it out loud and boom, heaven’s your new home! It’s a classic case of tearing the passage out of its historical and theological context like a page out of a magazine.
Paul’s first readers were Roman citizens who were law bound to assert tyrannical Caesar as “Lord” and obey his every dictate or die. Their confession of the Lordship of Christ would then have sounded more like:
“I no longer accept or follow any lord…
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