Briefly Considered: The Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus
How Mathetes' evangelistic approach shocks and humbles me....
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Keep ReadingIn an interview (I don't recall where I got this from, sorry), Michael Horton made some comments regarding the popularity of the notion that Christians ought to be living "incarnational lives." He notes that while most people use that language to simply describe the posture of identifying with our neighbors in humility, the word incarnational.... ....is attended today by ...
Keep ReadingAll of us should be able to agree that mission arises primarily out of the nature not of the church but of God Himself. The living God of the Bible is a sending God.The primal mission is God's for it is He Who sent His prophets, His Son, His Spirit. Of these missions the mission of the Son is central, for itis the culmination of the ministry of the prophets, and it embrace...
Keep ReadingAs a recent seminary graduate engaged in starting my first church plant, I cannot claim that I had it all figured out. Not even close. Name a doctrine or theological emphasis and I often had more questions than answers. There were some things, however, that I was clear on. I was invited to a vision-casting meeting held by our main sponsoring church in which they were discu...
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