In family-integrated, or as I like to say, age-integrated churches, we believe that it is the normal pattern and precedent of the Bible to include all ages in the corporate worship of God. The New Testament letters assume that all ages, including children, are present in the assembly. The New Testament letters were meant to […]
Worship
An Analysis of John 4:20-24 – Worshiping in Spirit and Truth
INTRODUCTION The purpose of all creation is to worship the true and living God in a way that he has commanded. The New Testament makes it clear that God is seeking worshippers who will worship him “in spirit and truth” (John 4:24) – but what does that mean? This paper seeks to analyze John 4:20-24 […]
Crazy Good News
The gospel of Jesus Christ is the good news that guilty sinners are reconciled to a holy and just God through the perfect life, sacrificial death, bodily resurrection and ascension of Jesus to the right hand of God where he sits even now interceding for his people. That’s a fairly packed sentence. But it only […]
Against Multiple Services
I do not believe that churches should have multiple morning services on the Lord’s day for their congregants to choose from (ex. 9:30, 10:30, and 11:30). My main reasoning is two fold: 1) it unnecessarily divides the body; and 2) it forces the services into a cookie cutter time constraint. I will address these two […]
A Small Plea for a Return to the Confessions
On October 22, 2017 Pastor Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Church in Dallas Texas, invited Fox News political commentator Sean Hannity to his church. Sean Hannity wasn’t there to participate in worship of the one true God. He was there to be interviewed in the time slot where the Lord Jesus Christ was to be […]