https://www.spurgeon.org/resource-library/sermons/baptismal-regeneration/ The following is my response to a brother trying to prove baptismal regeneration:: Honestly brother, if this is your only “proof” of such a major doctrinal claim, it is enormously subjective. The passage clearly also equates, in context, our death with Christ’s death. That is clearly a typological/spiritual reality not a literal one. Baptism … Continue reading Response on Baptismal Regeneration
A Debate with a Modern Minister on the “problem of the existing church”
A man that I will call John, said to me “We need more church planters! I like the model that every pastor must plant a church before getting hired on/called at an existing church” Response: John, I strongly and biblically disagree with that. Yes, established churches can be hard, but suffering for the sake of … Continue reading A Debate with a Modern Minister on the “problem of the existing church”
Why Four Gospels in our Bibles?
Seminary throwback: Why Four Gospels in our Bibles? In regard to the synoptics, the understanding of the Greek being “to see things together” is a helpful starting point. My pastor and an older gentleman in our church have explained why there are four Gospels too me with this analogy: when an accident happens and the … Continue reading Why Four Gospels in our Bibles?
People Pleasing?
——— “Christian, don’t live your life trying to please everyone. Jesus didn’t live to please everyone. Jesus perfectly lived to please His Father and was ridiculed by his own family while being hated and murdered on a cross by “religious people.” The fact is that there will be people who don’t like you, even people … Continue reading People Pleasing?
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