Ah, church that’s more a club than humble saints! They live for self and chafe at God’s restraints and think that he must like what they prefer. Such pride not even Heaven can deter.
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Severed
The body severed from the guiding head, Is, like the lordless church, most surely, dead.
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This statement saddens me deeply: There have been more buildings erected to the honor and service of Jesus Christ in the United States of America alone during the last decade only than were previously erected all over the world in honor of all the kings and rulers who ever lived. When we use the erection […]
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Jeremiah Tatum wrote in his article, “The biggest mistake Churches of Christ have made in the last 50 years“: I’m going to be bold now and put the majority of the blame on the common disciple. For the most part I don’t believe that preachers and missionaries who are in the trenches have contributed to […]
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Individuality in a group
On an alternative social-media site, someone wrote, “No, individuality isn’t something we can do as a group”. The exception to that is the church. It is in the family of God that we discover who we are and what are individual gifts and talents are. (At the moment, I’m social media-ing here and here and […]
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One more lesson tonight in the “Divine Initiative” series here in Chillicothe OH, on “The Family of God.” The Lord’s grace gives us community. We cannot survive alone. We need each other. God created us as social beings, as souls who need fellowship for growth and service. The key word is love. The spiritual family […]
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Others will put forth their ideas about how to accomplish the divine mission. We will do our best, also. We are glad for the efforts of each one. In the end, God will judge the work of all and he will approve or find us lacking. Whatever of our work may survive the test, we […]
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