From chapter 2:
Believing the true Gospel, and responding to it in repentance and belief, is the only way to be saved. The Gospel and its required response, therefore, are the very last things we want to assume that people know – even if some of them insist otherwise. The human heart is astoundingly deceptive (Jer. 17:9), nominalism (being a Christian in name only) has spread in our churches like gangrene, and misunderstandings about the Gospel abound among professing evangelicals, especially regarding its relationship to other religions and its implications for our everyday lives. People need to hear the Gospel – whether they’re professing Christians or not.
2Cor. 4:5 For we do not preach ourselves but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your bond-servants for Jesus' sake. The implication is that once you try to turn the corner from technique, program, or entertainment to the Gospel, it’s likely that you’ll either lose them, or they will be converted to you, not Christ. The Gospel of Christ has never needed the gimmicks of man to effect conversion in the soul. (p44)
It has been my conviction that one who attends a “real” church should get a “real” Christian education. If I am to attend “every time the doors are open” then why should one attending seminary for only a short duration have any better education than me who spends a lifetime in corporate study? Acts 2:42. And they were continually devoting themselves to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. How serious are we about knowing our great God? I know of only one place where He has given to us His own self-revelation. Should not we be adamant about knowing what He has said? This is the only manner that we will be His light to the world that He desires the salvation thereof. 1Tim2:3-4 This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, 4. who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
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My name is Paul and by God's grace I pastor Mambrino Baptist Church in Granbury, TX. I am happily married with a beautiful daughter and another due in January.
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I'm trying to figure out how to abide in Christ's word and pray accordingly. As a church we are reading through the Bible together and I am posting a prayer in response to those daily readings. May God multiply in your life what I get right and guard you from what I get wrong.
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cts 2:42. And they were continually devoting themselves to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
We are quite often remiss with this verse. Seeing teaching as being the only point here. In fact, many preachers have left off the phrase 'and to prayer'.
When we look at Christ modeling we see him in prayer, teaching prayer, and living that prayre.
Prayer should be our first stop in studying the scriptures that God would illuminate them for our understanding.
None of this is to discount our studying as it says 2Tim 2:15 "Be dilligent to present yourself approved to God as aworkman who does notneed to be ashamed, handling accurately the word of truth.'
We are each responsible to study to show ourselves approved.
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