Membership
If the eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you,” how much more can it not say that to a whole local body?
We should preach to our people the whole time we are preaching, and not only after we have walked through the text or proven our case of what the main point is.
You can’t change your church’s culture overnight, but through prayerful, patient leadership, your members’ meetings can become joyful occasions.
Whatever its flaws, I can only commend to you a work of hermeneutics that is resolved to make its reader sunbathe in “the radiance of God’s glory,” our Lord Jesus Christ.
We protect the gospel by ensuring that the gospel sign (baptism) is closely associated with genuine gospel work (regeneration).
The Lord has established for salvation to precede identification through baptism into membership, and then for those identifying markers to precede the ongoing celebratory act of the Lord’s Supper.
In 1856, the New Park Street Chapel was bursting at the seams. Since calling their pastor, C. H. Spurgeon, in...
If the eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you,” how much more can it not say that to a whole local body?