Below you'll find a list of all posts from May, 2016
We have discerned God’s will not by just interpreting written-down texts in the Spirit. We also discerned God’s will by interpreting the Spirit’s living texts, women he has gifted for service in the kingdom. Gifted women in leadership right now in the church are living descriptive texts. These women are part of a great band of witnesses stretching all the …
Because the idea of Scripture as a constitution or code book persists among Bible-loving Christians, many of us see the authority of Scripture mediated to us as commands, examples, and necessary inferences. The usual drill is to look for commands, note the examples, and make our own inferences. Something like this is practiced widely within all evangelical churches. So if …
We believe Jesus is Lord. We believe in the authority and inspiration of Scripture. We also believe in the Spirit’s power to illuminate Scripture and help us embody the first-century word in the 21st century. We believe God is raising up men and women to do his work. The argument in this book is based on the authority of Jesus …
The background of Paul’s first letter to Timothy was a heresy of “unsound words” in the church in Ephesus. Paul described this heresy as “myths and endless genealogies.” The dominating mythology of Ephesus was propagated to all its citizens by the Artemis religious fertility cult, which was housed in a massive temple. Acts 19:23-40 testifies to the powerful hold Artemis …
