"The Church" Series Collection
What Is the Church?
EPHESIANS 5 25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
The Church Exists for the Redemption of the World
from “THE CONFESSION OF FAITH OF THE EVANGELICAL UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH” as found in "THE TRANSITIONAL BOOK OF DOCTRINES AND DISCIPLINE THE GLOBAL METHODIST CHURCH” “We believe the Christian Church is the community of all true believers under the Lordship of Christ.
American Methodism
Acts 20:26 Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all, 27 for I did not shrink from declaring to you the wh…
Palm Sunday and Politics
We have been covering the topic of the church, and specifically addressing the question of “who is right about what is right”, since there are so many different Christian groups (some odd 45,000 different groups) who hold differing opinions about so many things. We have attempted to point out that as Methodists, we groun…
Easter Sunday March 31st, 2024
It is hardly a novel thing to say that American Christianity has shaped in her church a myopic, overly individualistic version of the story of the work of salvation. When most American Christians think of the gospel they think of the message that Jesus Christ died on the cross to save “me” from “my” sins. Jesus died for you and me, so that we could spen…
The Priesthood of All Believers?
In my own tradition, Baptist leaders like Francis Wayland (1796–1865) and even E.Y. Mullins (1860–1928) argued that each individual person was independently competent to determine matters of religious importance. This logic inevitably led to the idea that every believer has the absolute right to private judgment about biblical doctrine and the liberty t…