Baptism: a Matter of Obedience
What does the New Testament teach about baptism? The Holy Spirit begins in the Gospels where the disciples were commanded to "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son,...
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Health Food
The next time you read 1 & 2 Timothy and Titus, underline the word "doctrine." You will notice how frequently the word appears and the importance Paul gives the subject. "Doctrine" simply means "teaching." It was an activity the early...
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Inter-Assembly Cooperation
I am privileged to live in an area where five assemblies enjoy happy fellowship with one another. These assemblies grew from one over the years. Each time a few believers left their assembly in harmony, with the interest of seeing...
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God’s Great Idea
Involvement in the local assembly takes time. And anything that uses our time must make a good case for doing so. Time is limited. We only have so much to give, so why should we give it to the assembly?...
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Received into Fellowship
Recently, on the same day, I had two separate conversations with believers, each unknown to the other. They were from two different assemblies, from two different cities, from two different countries. Yet they observed the same problem in their home...
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Discipline in the Local Church
The human body's ability to reject a dangerous virus is a wonder of the Creator's design. The Body of Christ also has an immune system to protect her from debilitating disease. Sin always brings damage. Both individually and corporately, God's people...
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Our Place in History
It is possible that this generation will see the rapture of the Church, that we will be those unique members of the Body that "remain unto the coming of the Lord" (1 Thess. 4:15). It would give us a connection...
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Love and the Local Church
Love is an essential ingredient to assembly life. The great love chapter of the Bible (1 Cor. 13) was not included in the poetic psalms but in the ever practical first letter to the Corinthians. The chapter is part of...
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Evangelism and the Local Church
The church has been afflicted with a very confused message on evangelism. Evangelism is, in the minds of many, work done by a select group of freelance Christians we call evangelists, who in their own quaint way go out to...
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