“They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. –Ephesians 4:18 Paul said that the Gentiles do what they do “due to their…
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Issues and opinions about Christianity
Constitutional Sin
“They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.” –Epheisians 4:18 Those who walk as the Gentiles do, suffer from a darkened or…
Process of Edification–Holiness
Christians to engage in this edification “until we all attain to the unity (ἑνότης) of the faith” (v. 13). Attain makes it sound like unity is something that we have to achieve. And while that is a popular idea, it…
Edify The World
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, –Ephesians 4:11-12 The work of the ministry is the building up…
Church Work
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ… —Ephesians 4:11 Thus, the work of Christ’s church is to attend…
Ministry–Church Work
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ… —Ephesians 4:11 The function of ministry (διακονία), the central occupation of…
Least?
Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God’s grace, which was given me by the working of his power. To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was…
Meeting Together
“Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I…
The Missing History
Bill Bryson has put together a fun read. A Short History of Nearly Everything (Broadway Books, 2003) provides a chronology of science, physics, biology, the standard model of particle physics, and their evolution into … well, the theory of evolution.…
Wiles
(From In Christ–the Church at Ephesus, forthcoming.) The purpose of wearing the armor of God is to “stand against the schemes of the devil” (Eph. 6:11). Schemes (μεθοδεία) is translated wiles in the Authorized Version. It is a compound word…