Lessons from Jude Pt. 4: The Dreams of False Teachers
What can someone aspiring to missions be doing now to best prepare for cross-cultural kingdom work someday? This article will be a follow-up to the previous article on “What is a Missionary?” It has three application points for young people to consider before heading to the field. These are directed primarily at young people, but are also for pastors who have aspiring missionaries in their churches.
Lessons from Jude Pt.3: The Subtlety of False Teachers
The true threat to the church is not a difference in personalities or life experiences so much as it is a deviation from Biblical Truth.
Lessons From Jude Pt.2: Gospel Centrality in Theological Teaching
The Gospel must be preached, and preached accurately and truthfully, at all costs. If the Gospel is misrepresented, then the pastor, the elder, the teacher, or the parent must drop whatever they are doing, scrap whatever lesson plan or sermon series they had, and recalibrate their audience on Gospel truth. You can always deal with secondary and tertiary issues later, but if the Gospel is at stake, then salvation itself is at stake.
Lessons From Jude Pt.1: What Does It Mean To Be “Called” By God?
How can one with dirty hands become clean by scrubbing himself with those same hands? There is only one solution: he must be the object of cleansing and not the worker of cleansing. Consequently, to be “called” identifies the Christian as one who has been appointed to be the object of God’s affections, mercy, and saving grace, to be chosen to be part of the royal priesthood, someone for Christ’s own possession (1 Pet. 2:9).