Repentance is a result of God's kindness, not a prerequisite to it.
D.R. SilvaTags: questions christianity religion church think sin repentance
I can never endorse sin any more than when I tell people it's their nature to do it.
D.R. SilvaTags: freedom christianity religion church sin
If sickness brought glory God, Jesus would have spread disease, not healed it.
D.R. SilvaTags: inspiration christianity religion church tragedy jesus healing
If Jesus didn't do it, don't say the Father does. If Jesus did do it, don't say the Father doesn't.
D.R. SilvaTags: christianity religion church jesus ministry
Many in the church have turned their back on serious study, and have embraced an anti-intellectualism which refuses to learn anything from scholarship at all lest it corrupt their pure faith. It is time to end this standoff, and to reestablish a hermeneutic of trust (itself a sign of the gospel!) in place of the hermeneutic of suspicion which the church has so disastrously borrowed from the postmodern world.
N.T. WrightTags: doubt christianity scripture church trust bible skepticism theology fundamentalists suspicion
The original Christians regarded the deposit of faith, as finally inseparable from the very living substance of the Gospel in the saving event of Christ crucified, risen and glorified, but as once and for all entrusted to the church through its apostolic foundation in Christ, informing, structuring and quickening its life and faith and mission as the body of Christ in the world... While the deposit of faith was replete with the truth as it is in Jesus, embodying kerygmatic, didactic and theological content, but its very nature it could not be resolved into a system of truths or set of normative doctrines and formulated beliefs, for the truths and doctrines and beliefs entailed could not be abstracted from the embodied form which they were given in Christ in the apostolic foundation of the church without loss of their real substance. Nevertheless in this embodied form "the faith once for all delivered to the saints" constituted the regulative basis for all explicit formulation of Christian truth, doctrine and belief in the deepening understanding of the church and its regular instruction of catechumens and the faithful. app is
Thomas F. TorranceTags: church christian doctrine orthodoxy nicene
If every Christian family in the United States would simply commit to pray and ask God if HE wants to use them to bless a child without a family, well, we'd change the world. If we can get the church to think about adoption not in terms of the desires of adults but in terms of the needs of children, I think we'd see on a much grander scale how God sets the lonely in families.
Kelly RosatiWhen society was patriarchal, as it was in the New Testament context and as it has been everywhere in the world except in modern society in our day, the church avoided scandal by going along with it - fundamentally evil as patriarchy was and is. Now, however, that modern society is at least officially egalitarian, the scandal is that the church is NOT going along with society, not rejoicing in the unprecedented freedom to let women and men serve according to gift and call without an arbitrary gender line. This scandal impedes both the evangelism of others and the edification - the retention and development of faith - of those already converted.
John G. Stackhouse Jr.Tags: christianity church feminism new-testament patriarchy egalitarianism complementarianism
The church that weds itself to modernity is already a widow within postmodernity.
Thomas C. OdenTags: church modernity postmodernity
Our musical artistry and leadership of people need to work together to create an environment that welcomes participation instead of causing disengagement.
Gangai VictorTags: church ministry leading-worship
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