Justin TaylorAre You Sure You Want to Follow Me?If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.John Bunyan paraphrases:Following of me is not like following of some other masters. The wind sits always on my face and the foaming rage of the sea of this… Continue reading Someone else reading Bunyan
Category: Faith and Christianity
Mission of the Church
TT: In what ways can the church better prepare its members to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century? AM: For far too long, evangelical churches have simply assumed that it is our task to give our church members a basic level of biblical knowledge, to create opportunities for Christian fellowship, and to encourage parents… Continue reading Mission of the Church
Doctrine….
Got up early this morning to learn more about Melanchthon. Who he was and what he said and did. I'll leave that to your own research, but as a hint you will find him between discussion of Luther and Calvin.Kevin DeYoung has a good post: A Doctrine That Must Be BelievedIn it he quotes Charles… Continue reading Doctrine….
Changes in original intent….
I was thinking about this idea of how over time we seem to progress from religious conservatism to liberalism.This came up in our Westminster Confession of Faith Study....how in the early 20th Century Neo-Orthodoxy which was too save the church ended up laying the solid intellectual ground work that has led us to deny, reinterpret… Continue reading Changes in original intent….
