Church Life Issues

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Church Life Issues
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• What is the Church?

The New Testament perspective as a corrective to common misrepresentations.

• The 'Body of Christ': This metaphor of the Church is highly significant and unique to the apostle Paul's letters.

• Symbols that Strengthen: Three symbols with profound significance for the meaning of our Christianity.

• Christian Baptism: a very brief overview of the subject.

• Most Sacred Celebration: 'Access Reserved' often stands at the doors to the Lord's Supper. ... Is this right?

• Church Discipline: Corrective discipline within the Church. What? Why? When? How?

• Church Meeting Dynamics: How should our services be? Or is there no 'right' liturgy?

• The Structure of Church Ministry: Ministry Financing – Church Organization – Leadership Structure?

• Her Heart's Unknowing: An intense and intuitive poetic expression of the indescribable.

• The Christian Pilgrimage: A growing chronology of the Christian journey through history. (Always unfinished).

"From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard Him thus [His Jewishness/maleness] no longer" (2 Cor.5:16).
Therefore, there is neither Jew nor Arab, neither male nor female, aristocrat nor peasant, or any other distinction among God's people, for they are all undivided by any kind of human factor (Gal.3:28).

• The English Bible

A detailed chronology of the English translation of the Holy Bible: from 735 AD to 2001 AD.

• Understanding the Bible: How to understand this Book of books.

• Misused Scriptures: Bible verses abused – sincerely or otherwise.

• Corrupted Bible Texts: Even our Bible's oldest manuscripts show the scars of human failure.

• Biased Translation: A sample of bias in the English translation of our Bible.

• The 'Jerusalem School of Synoptic Research' exposed!: Exposé of a disturbingly perverse attempt in Bivin and Blizzard's book, 'Difficult Words of Jesus', to discredit the New Testament by pretended scholarship.* (Zipped PDF file of 25 page pre-publication copy).


	Jesus said – 'have you not read* - what God spoke to you!'* (Matt.22:31).

	Evolution of Doctrine	Newness in knowing His Word. Should doctrine really develop?
	The Trinity of God	A deeper view of the God who loves you!
	Bizarre Behaviour	Unusual phenomena sometimes associated with Christian ministry.
	Encouragements	Short words of spiritual encouragement on various issues.
	Head Covering	Doesn't it just reflect female subservience in antiquity? Or what?
	Laughter?	Hilarity in church services? - unruly behaviour? Or worse?
	Giving	Tithes, offerings -- the 'yes' and 'no' of Christian giving.
:: MINISTRY IN ALL FORMS IS AN OUTGROWTH OF THE SPIRITUAL LIFE OF GOD'S PEOPLE, OF CHRIST'S CONGREGATION AS A CONGREGATION. THEREFORE NO INDIVIDUAL MINISTRY CAN EVER BE INDEPENDENT ::
	A Church Behaviours Menu	Chronologies of strange Church behaviour (Anglican, Catholic, Orthodox, Lutheran, etc.).
	Your Church's Raison D'être?	Do Christian denominations have a right to exist, or should we leave them? If not, what next?
TODAY IN CHRISTIAN HISTORY	Calvinism's Corruptions	A legacy that still misleads the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ today.
	Pageantry in Worship	Flag-waving and banners in church worship.
	Remnant Mentality	A misunderstanding of the Church which denies its spiritual liberty.
	Church Ordination	Brief rebuttal of the myth of ordination.
	*The Israel Heresy	The insidious error that has enchanted many evangelicals today . . .
	A Seduced Bride	A flirtation that has ruined lives and destroyed Christianity's historical character.
	The Cell-Church	Ralph Neighbour's erroneous diagnosis of Church life and his therefore misleading remedy.

	Predestination	Very short biblical definition.
	Demonic Possession	Akathartos Pneuma -- Yes? -- No? -- What? -- How? -- Why?
	Why Am I Not Healed?	If God heals and I believe, why does He not heal me?


Jesus: 'Truly I tell you, in that you did it to one of the least important of these My brothers, you did it to Me.' (Matt.25:40, 45)

• Consult 'Ministry Watch' before donating to any Internet or TV broadcast ministry!

• See: Emergent Church and Spiritual Transformation Issues
• World Watch List For The Persecuted Church by 'Open Doors'
• SEE THE STATUS OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM BY COUNTRY
• See: Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code Hoax

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