The Lord chose twelve very different men to lay the foundation of His church, and in their variety He teaches every congregation that He has a place and a work for every kind of faithful disciple. We are tempted to look at the apostles as giants…
When God’s people borrow the world’s religious vocabulary, they soon borrow the world’s religious ideas; faithfulness therefore requires that we hold the pattern of sound words and call Bible things by Bible names. This is a lesson about words, and someone will object that words are…
All authority in religion belongs to Jesus Christ; therefore His word, and His word alone, settles every religious question, and to refuse to hear Him is to be cut off from the people of God. Every religious dispute, when traced to its root, is a dispute…
The New Testament speaks of five different baptisms, but only one is the commanded baptism in force for sinners today; rightly dividing the five guards us from both neglect and counterfeit. A single word can carry several meanings, and nowhere does that cause more mischief than…
Many younger Christians have never heard the word *institutionalism*, so the issue needs to be stated plainly. Institutionalism is the practice of the church doing its work through human institutions, organizations, or centralized arrangements that are not found in the New Testament pattern. In simple terms, it is when men build structures larger than or separate from the local church in order to do work God assigned to the church.
Jesus gives the command that raises the dead, but He immediately assigns a task to the living. Discover the church’s vital role in discipleship and sanctification.