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I posted concerning the liberal theologian Albert Schweitzer a while ago. In 1906, he wrote quite a famous book called The Quest of the Historical Jesus. In it, he suggested that our Lord was expecting God to take Him down from the cross, and when He realised that wasn't going to happen He...

I thought it might be interesting to discuss these three words in the light of discussions and non-discussions elsewhere. Perhaps we might start with the Hebrew verb kapar or kaphar (Strongs 3722). This is a verb with the basic meaning of 'to cover,' though not in the sense of merely...

As I have posted elsewhere on this forum, the expression 'it is finished' comes from the Greek word teleo, which has a variety of different meanings. As well as to 'finish,' it can mean to 'complete,' and certainly His sufferings were complete when He spoke those words. It can mean 'perform'...

May I suggest a reading of 1 Chronicles 29 and John 12:1-8 to you?

It's not clear to me what a 'discipleship pastor' is, but it's plainly not the same as a full-on pastor. The women mentioned in Romans 16 did more than serve coffee. Churches need to be involving women in ministry, just not as pastors and/or preachers. The fellowship to which my church is...

The word which the KJV translates as 'generation' in Matthew 1:1 is, interestingly, genesis. Perhaps 'origin' might have been a good translation? The word used 36 times elsewhere for 'generation' (e.g. Matt. 1:17; 11:16; Luke 1:48) is genea. Gennema is used four times as 'generation of...

Yep! 1 Cor. 1:21. 'For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the word preached to save those who believe.' Romans 10:14-15. 'How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe...

I was thinking of Acts 2:46. Obviously things were great in those very early days, but my impression is that as soon as possible they met together in a building where they could have proper regular fellowship. How were they the 'church collectively? They would have been becoming atomized...

I think your model sounds absolutely ghastly, though if it works for you, by all means carry on. One thing that we know the church in Corinth did was to meet regularly 'as a church.' While they didn't do that particularly well, Paul does not suggest that they go back to wandering about from...

Yeah! Maybe God doesn't really care about His Gospel. I had forgotten that you are the world's first and only Hyper-Calvinist, Dispensationalist, Hyper-Preterist. Dunno! I was just quoting Scripture to you. ;) Maybe Esther 4:14 applies.

You are somewhat right. I set out my views some years ago in a blog post: What is a Church? You have a problem with a church in a big city like Corinth, Rome or Ephesus. Paul wrote to a single church. He did not expect the recipients to email his letters to dozens of ministers of home...

I expect that they did, but probably, like the church in Corinth, they met together regularly as a body. Paul writes to one church in Ephesus and one church in Corinth, not to lots of tiny ones. That's fine. Philemon's church met in his house (Philem. 2). Perhaps they both had large houses...

Some people take longer to get the message than others. ;) Matthew 24:14. "And this Gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come." Amos 6:1. Woe to you who are at ease in Zion.'

If Abel speaks to us today through the sacrifice that he ofered to God, we should be able to draw some conclusions from the sacrifice that Cain offered, the most obvious being that he must have had some sort of belief in God, but that it did him no good (c.f. James 2:19). In Jude 11, we read of...

According to Hebrews 11:4, it is through the sacrifice that Abel offered that he speaks to us today, and it is through that sacrifice that he was counted righteous. ‘By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God...

1990/91 is a long time ago. I think maybe people have the right to change their views sometimes. Just ask Paul.

I'm sure they often did meet in homes, not necessarily by choice. But the church in Corinth did meet together on a regular basis. 'When you come together as a church.' ( 1 Cor. 11:18). I assume that they met in a hall somewhere as the Ephesian believers did (Acts 19:9). When they became too...

Hebrews 11:4. ‘By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.’ In this post, I want to expound a riddle: how can a man who never spoke whilst he...

Exactly!

Well it's tough over here, but while there are these church buildings closing down, at the same time there are new church plants springing up and meeting in town halls or schools or similar places. My church has just planted in a nearby town, taking over the building of a church that had shut...