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Making Sense of Whitefield’s Legacy and His Complicity in Slavery
A Cautionary Tale Without doubt, one of the most troubling aspects of Whitefield’s legacy was his involvement with slavery—one of the most ubiquitous features of life in the eighteenth century British world. At first, Whitefield was controversial for the way he called out Southern slave owners for their awful treatment of slaves. But it wasn’t too long before Whitefield made the fateful decision to become a slave master himself.
Recovering This Doctrine Will Help Heal the Disunity of the Church
Unity, Not Uniformity The spirituality of the church can offer abundant dividends if we use it rightly and don’t misuse it. We’ve seen the misuse of it with the failure to address the evils of slavery in some cases. We don’t want that—what Charles Hodge called the church avoiding her painful responsibilities. What we want, rather, is a good and helpful use of the spirituality of the church.
How Not to Handle a Pastoral Succession
How Not to Handle a Pastoral Succession On September 17, 1944, a relatively unknown pastor named Kenneth Owen White arrived at Metropolitan Baptist Church in Washington, D. C. (later known as Capitol Hill Baptist Church), eager to prove himself. In time, he would rise to national prominence—most famously, grilling John F. Kennedy during the 1960 presidential campaign and then later serving as president of the Southern Baptist Convention.
When the Church Got Slavery Wrong
A Sad Chapter in History This is one of the saddest chapters in American history. You can look at the history of the ancient church—as Kyle Harper has in a couple of important books that he has published—and see how Christianity, the effects and consequences of Christianity, played a part in the waning and the dissolution of slavery in the old Roman Empire.
The Church Should Mind Its Spiritual Business
The gospel is a spiritual message for a world whose greatest need is spiritual: redemption from sin and new life in Christ. This is not to say, however, that the effects of the gospel do not have consequences for the world in which we live.
The Church Should Mind Its Spiritual Business
The True Calling of the Church The calling, or mission, of the church as the church is to proclaim the gospel to the ends of the earth, not to be another merely (or even chiefly) political, social, or economic institution. The church, in its full-orbed existence, may have political, economic, or social concerns that develop out of its mission, but those aspects are not what primarily mark and define it.
10 Things You Should Know about the Spirituality of the Church
This article is part of the 10 Things You Should Know series. 1. What the doctrine of “the spirituality of the church” means. Many who hear or read “spirituality” and “church” may think that it means the same thing as “Christian spirituality.” This is understandable since the term “spirituality of the church” has fallen out of use because the doctrine has been forgotten due both to neglect and abuse (see below for the abuse of the teaching).
February 2024 New Releases
New Books and Bibles Below is a list of the new and notable resources releasing this month from Crossway. Titles include Questioning Faith by Randy Newman and a new edition of The Biggest Story Bible Storybook featuring a TruTone cover.
Unpacking “Separation of Church and State”
This article is part of the Unpacking Culture series in which we examine a well-known axiom and weigh any true or positive aspects of it against any negative or misleading connotations of the phrase. What Is the Relationship between Church and State? The notion of the separation of church and state is a comparatively recent phenomenon, as part of the American experiment in republican government.
Why the Mission of the Church Is Spiritual and Not Political
The “spirituality of the church” (SOTC) relates to the reality that the church is supremely a spiritual institution (not a biological one, as is the family, or a civil one, as is the state) and that its power is moral and suasive (not legal and coercive, as is state power), ministerial and declarative (not magisterial and legislative, as is power in the Roman Catholic Church).
Empowered Witness
By Alan D. Strange, Foreword by Kevin DeYoung ... Show All Rediscovering the Spirituality of the Church in Our Highly Politicized Age The goal of the church should be simple—share the gospel to the ends of the earth. But in our highly politicized age, Christians can tend to place earthly political and social agendas over God’s spiritual mission of the church. In Empowered Witness, author Alan D.
Why the Mission of the Church Is Spiritual and Not Political
An Ongoing Dialogue Historically, the church has at times claimed a supremacy that she does not have—over the state, especially—and she has, at other times, allowed the state to dominate her. Part of the genius of the Reformation was the rediscovery that the state is not over the church or vice-versa, but that all institutions are properly under God.
The Orthodox Presbyterian Church
From the Editor. 2022 is the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the birth of Frances Schaeffer. I recently had a surprise call from someone I had not been in contact with for fifty years. Paul Maffin was converted from Zen Buddhism at L’Abri, having lived in an ashram in Bodh Gaya, India. Shortly after living in India, he arrived at L’Abri where I was working on renovating and installing a fireplace in Dr. and Mrs. Schaeffer’s bedroom. Paul and I became fast friends as he joined me in the work.
Our Eyes at Last Shall See Him
Written by Alan D. Strange | Sunday, December 26, 2021 Many Christians have come to expect that they ought to be living their “best life now.” They see, though, that their lives remain fraught with problems. They feel as if they should not have such problems as Christians. But God never told us that we would not have tribulation in this world. Jesus told us that we would. And He also told us to be of good cheer, because He has overcome the world (John 16:33).
Jesus as Prophet
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