The Forgotten Commission: Orders That Have Never Been Rescinded
The church must never allow the comfort of salvation to eclipse the purpose of salvation. The commission belongs to the whole church.
Practical TheologyTheology, church history and apologetics.
The church must never allow the comfort of salvation to eclipse the purpose of salvation. The commission belongs to the whole church.
Practical TheologyConversion is not the end of God's self-disclosure to a believer. It is the beginning, and the believer is changed by what he keeps seeing.
Practical TheologyRevelation was not given to frighten the church but to strengthen it by showing who reigns while the judgments of history unfold.
EschatologyAll ten expected the bridegroom and all ten slept. The parable divides them by preparation, and preparation could not be borrowed at midnight.
Parables of ChristThe world cannot see God directly, but it can observe what His grace produces in ordinary sinners who belong to Christ.
Practical TheologyAncient boundary stones remained beneath the overgrowth, waiting to be uncovered. Scripture serves the church in exactly that way.
Practical TheologyConviction cannot be manufactured in the middle of the battle. Paul could stand before kings because the central questions were already settled.
Practical TheologyGod calls a people, but He never bypasses the person. No one is reconciled to God by family, nation, or church membership.
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