October 2024 | Relationship Between Legalism and Mission
The Church: Organism or Organization?
There is a popular concept among some church people that as far as the church is concerned, “organism” is good and spiritual, but that “organization” is bad and unspiritual. I believe this is false. Organization is necessary for any enterprise. As far as the church is ...Read More
Spirituality Without Hypocrisy
In a prayer meeting, a gentleman prayed, "Thank you, Lord, that I am not like other ordinary people. They are robbers, evildoers, and adulterers. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get. You can't find a man as gentle as I am, and I forgot to tell you that I am a Pharisee." It was a vain p...Read More
Circumcision of the Flesh or Heart?
The difference between the outward observance of the Mosaic law and the inward experience of the heart was clearly stated by the Apostle Paul – “For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and c...Read More
Acts 15 – Legalism in the Churches Today
The Collins English Dictionary defines legalism as “strict adherence to the law, esp the stressing of the letter of the law rather than its spirit.” The distinction between the strictly literal meaning of the law (litera legis) and its general meaning, its spirit or its intention, is an importan...Read More
The Jerusalem Council - Mission Among Gentiles
I IntroductionWill the Christian spiritual movement that began on the Day of Pentecost in Jerusalem end up as a sect within Judaism? The Great Commission that embraces the whole world, and humanity will be diligently done by the Church. The danger was real, but the first Church Council, The Council ...Read More