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30, 60, 100: Can We Conclude That More Fruit Was Caused by the One Receiving the Seed?
You might hear something so many times that you think it is the truth, but sometimes it is the truth and sometimes not. In the classroom teaching for over 25 years, I will ask students a question, and after the first one responds, others will take their answer down the same path, even though it […]
Hannah W. Smith, Inner Light and Biblical Misinterpretation; part 5 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic
This entire 21-part study appears on the FaithSaves.net website in a study entitled “Hannah Whitall Smith: Higher Life Writer, Speaker on Sanctification, Developer of the Keswick Theology, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic.” Click here to read the entire study. Search for: “Hannah, as a natural concomitant of her continuationism and Quakerism, believed in […]
A Door to Door Evangelism Encounter
Read part one. Don’t try to convince yourself that door-to-door means “shoving it down people’s throats,” a sales pitch, or the enemy of evangelizing your circles of influence. It doesn’t. Door-to-door is sowing the seed on every single plot of ground, searching every square inch for the lost coin, sheep, and son, and making […]
Door-to-Door Evangelism: Are There Better Ways to Evangelize than Evangelizing?
Imagine a method of evangelism where almost everyone enjoyed the encounter. Sounds like heaven. Is there a comfortable manner for a root canal? Asleep. But you’ve got to be conscious to receive the gospel. Proponents of Jesus asked why so few were saved? He said they would not strive (agonizomai) to enter the narrow gate. […]
Hannah W. Smith, Sign Gifts and Pentecostal Roots: part 4 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic
This entire 21-part study appears on the FaithSaves.net website in a study entitled “Hannah Whitall Smith: Higher Life Writer, Speaker on Sanctification, Developer of the Keswick Theology, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic.” Click here to read the entire study. Search for: “In line with the Quaker background she shared with her husband, both […]
Should Christians Celebrate Christmas?
Through my 27+ years of pastoring, the question of the title of this post has arisen from several individuals on different occasions. I think it is a good question. It falls under “prove all things” (1 Thess 5:21). So let’s begin first with the meetings of a church. I’ll approach that with the regulative principle […]
American Idol
Everyone believes in something, either the true God or an idol. The first of God’s ten commandments warns against and forbids idols. Idols are whatever Satan and the world system offers as a replacement to God. The Apostle Paul in Romans 1 says men suppress God out of rebellion. The Apostle Peter in 2 Peter […]
Hannah W. Smith, Quakerism, and Self-Examination rejected; part 3 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic
This entire 21-part study appears on the FaithSaves.net website in a study entitled “Hannah Whitall Smith: Higher Life Writer, Speaker on Sanctification, Developer of the Keswick Theology, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic.” Click here to read the entire study. Search for: “Hannah was able, in part, to continue to preach the Higher Life […]
Family Pictures
I’m going to continue my series on church growth. I had an outline, and I think it will be three posts total. I’m going to write one on evangelism in the near future. I’ve got a post I’d like to write, entitled, American Idol, which will reveal what I think is the biggest idol in […]
How Does Modern Church Growth Not Compare to Church Growth in the Bible, part one
The Bible is without error and sufficient. As a corollary to those two truths, scripture also contains everything anyone needs to know about church growth. When we look at the biblical teaching and example for church growth, we get everything we need for church growth. The New Testament contains so much about it that it […]
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