Archive for the ‘The Church’ Category

80 percent of all churches are stagnant or in decline writes John Hammett. One church closes each day. As a whole, the church is alive but not well. In Acts 2:42-47, Dr. Luke does more than take the pulse, he gives a thorough examination of first local church. The report of Luke the physician is [...]

GBC Sermon Audio – May 19 & 26, 2010 I heard this illustration from two different preachers on the controversy of church music and thought some of you would apprecate it and may want to file it away for preaching on Romans 14 and Christian Liberty. That is what I did. When I heard it [...]

John Hammett asks this painful question for most of our churches to confront: “How can regenerate church membership become a reality in a church with a membership of six hundred but an average attendance of two hundred, and where half of the four hundred absentees have been absent so long that only a few senior [...]

Replacement theology states that the church has replaced Israel and is the new Israel to the point of saying that the two terms in the New Testament are synonymous. Arnold Fruchtenbaum attributes this view to William E. Cox in his Amillennialism Today on pages 46-47. Fruchtenbaum presents a powerful refutation to the claim that the [...]

1. There is Positional Unity in the Church (Ephesians 2:11-13). 2. There is Positional Unity in the Church because of the Reconciling Death of Christ (Ephesians 2:14-18). Two reconciliations took place at the cross. A. The first was the reconciliation of Jews and Gentiles. The death of Christ is repeated throughout verses 13-16: “by the [...]

Week 3 Assignment: Read pages 65-98 in MacArthur and Eph 2:11-3:21 and comment on the three posts. This week we begin studying the blessed and controversial doctrine of the Church or the Body of Christ (the third major doctrine of the theological section in Ephesians). This doctrine is most hotly debated between Covenant Theologians and Classic Dispensationalists. [...]