What precedes genuine revival and the spiritual renewal of God’s churches? In the last installment (Dec. 24 Messenger), we noted that there was prayer. Generally speaking no genuine movement of God has taken place in the history of the church without it being preceded by prayer. But there is also repentance on the part of [...]
Archive for Theology
“The 18th Century Great Commission Resurgence: Part 2. Praying for revival”
How does renewal or revival come to a Christian community or congregation? A variety of answers can be given to this important question, but, from the vantage-point of church history, prayer will lead the list.
When God’s people are driven to realize their desperate need for spiritual advance and revival, they also realize they must pray [...]
Bible Translations: Are They Accurate?
Editor’s Note:
This is the second in a series of articles that traces the origin, collection, transmission and translation of the Bible. Each representative article examines one of the four questions pertaining to the inspiration, canonization, textual transmission and translation of the Bible.
The issue of translation of the Bible stems as a natural corollary once [...]
EDITOR’S JOURNAL: Harry Potter and Sunday School
Now that the evangelical furor and fundraising has temporarily subsided over the release of latest Harry Potter movie, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” perhaps a brief educational study is in order.
To be sure, the movie includes witches, potions, the dark arts, magic spells and talk of all things evil in the ongoing saga between [...]
EDITOR’S JOURNAL: Warning-Church Discipline
As a growing topic of discussion among all evangelicals, church discipline has found renewed purpose across the nation. Advocates of church discipline are finding their voices heard in new ways. There is strong support for strengthening the moral fiber of the local church, and many believe church discipline is the biblical answer to what [...]
The 18th Century Great Commission Resurgence
by Michael A.G. Haykin
“The 18th-Century Great Commission Resurgence
1. From a garden to a dunghill: the spiritual need”
Baptists first appeared in the late 1630s and early 1640s in London. By 1715, there were some 220 Baptist churches in England and Wales. During the 17th Century, they had been one of the most vigorous evangelistic bodies [...]
The Reformation: Justification finds its footing
Mention of the Protestant Reformation still evokes passion 492 years after Martin Luther nailed 95 statements to the church door in Wittenburg, Germany. Luther’s “theses” as they are commonly known, begins with a call to an ongoing personal repentance in the life of every true Christian and ends with a statement of assurance grounding believers [...]
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