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Slogan/motto:
Luther only started the Reformation - We must finish it!
Reputation:
April 8th, 2010, 10:01 PM
We never get into church government, one of my favorite subjects. Questions to get it going:
Where do you see any pastors, other than Christ, in the New Testament?
Did church government change with the changing of the covenants?
If Christ is to be the head of the church in practice, not just in theory, which form of church government would be the best "working out" of that headship? Which form would be the least?
Is the NT so vague as to allow any kind of church government as man sees fit or is one form specifically taught?
How close are typical Evangelical churches to the biblical model? What would they need to do different to operate with the biblical model?
Did our society beginning to go downhill when we stopped referring to adults unfamiliar, as Mr. and Mrs. (Miss)? In "No Country For Old Men" sheriff Bell said he thought we lost it, when we stopped using Sir and Ma'am.
What is the most physically difficult thing you have ever done in your life?
What is the most emotionally difficult thing you have ever done in your life?
The Bible has no book of 1 & 2 Presidents, or 1 & 2 Legislators (the latter of which are specifically entrusted to continually change the law, something the Lord repeatedly rebukes Israel for doing).
Scripture does, however, have a book of Judges, and a book of 1 & 2 Kings. These are the rightful, divinely-ordained rulers of any just society under the principles of biblical theonomy.
Slogan/motto:
Luke 9:23 Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me."
Reputation:
April 8th, 2010, 11:56 PM
best book you've read?
...other than the Bible
"If a sheerly linguistic version of the gospel could be concocted, it would merely so be no longer the gospel. In the Lutheran Reformation’s understanding, which we believe in this matter to be correct, the sacraments make the inalienable externality of the gospel message and therefore are necessary to the authenticity of that message." (Christian Dogmatics [1984], II:302-303 as cited in Pontifications)
Slogan/motto:
Luther only started the Reformation - We must finish it!
Reputation:
April 24th, 2010, 09:08 PM
On the whole, how close has the Reformation gotten the church to true biblical Christianity? What does the church need to do to get back to that?
If missions is to be contextualized, would any eastern religion be a manifestation of the Gospel that was preached in the East in ancient history? Are Eastern concepts of divine light really just Jesus in language unfamiliar to us in the West?
What do you think of the state of missions today? If God called you to be a missionary what would you do? How would you fund your mission?
believe it!
What's new? 
~ J Vernon McGee Ro 3:23, 5:8, 6:23, 10:9, 10:13.
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