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 [...]
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Five Marks of a Healthy Church: Serving in God’s Work
Posted: April 28, 2012 in The ChurchTags: 1 corinthians 12, biblical stewardship, Church, Healthy churches, John Hammett's Biblical Foundations for Baptist Churches, psalm 24, religion, romans 12
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Recovering a Regenerate Church Membership, Part 2
Posted: May 27, 2010 in Pastoral Theology, The ChurchTags: John Hammett's Biblical Foundations for Baptist Churches, Mark Dever, Regenerated Church Membership
Worship Wars: Worshiping How We Worship instead of Worshiping God
Posted: May 20, 2010 in Church Ministries, Pastoral Theology, The ChurchTags: Albert Mohler, Benjamin Keach, Ed Stetzer, He Is Not Silent, John Hammett's Biblical Foundations for Baptist Churches, Mark Driscoll, Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Church, Willow Creek, Worship Wars
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 [...]
Recovering a Regenerate Church Membership, Part 1
Posted: April 10, 2010 in Pastoral Theology, The ChurchTags: Biblical Foundations for Baptist Churches: A Contemporary Ecclesiology, John Piper, John S. Hammett, Mark Dever, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Southern Baptist Convention, What is a Healthy Church?
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 [...]
What is Replacement Theology?
Posted: March 26, 2010 in The ChurchTags: Amillennialism Today, Arnold G. Fruchenaum, Essays in Honor of J. Dwight Pentecost, Issues in Dispensationalism, Replacement theology, S. Lewis Johnson, William E. Cox
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 [...]
Week 3: The NEW Bible Institute on Ephesians, Part 2 “The Church”
Posted: October 10, 2009 in Ephesians Class, Sermons, The ChurchTags: Bob Roberts, Ed Stetzer, John MacArthur, Mark Driscoll, The Missional Church
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: The NEW Bible Institute on Ephesians, Part 1 “The Church”
Posted: October 9, 2009 in Ephesians Class, Sermons, The ChurchTags: Ammillennialism, Arnold Fruchtembaum, Classic Dispensationalists, Covenant Premillennialism, Covenant Theology, Replacement theology, William E. Cox
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. [...]
