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What Does Ordination Mean about Church Leadership
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Bob Cornwall, author of Unfettered Spirit: Spiritual Gifts for the New Great Awakening, has published an extract on ordination (The Biblical Call to Ordained Ministry). I think this would be a good launching pad for a discussion of the nature of ordination and what this means about church polity, if anything. Read Bob’s post first,…
Becoming Conscious of Your Essential Beliefs
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[Editor’s Note: This post requires time to mull it over, so we’re reprising it today] by Henry Neufeld, Energion Publisher On the front of a local church, prominently displayed, is a list of the critical doctrines of that congregation. These include KJV 1611, dispensationalism, premillennialism, and pretribulationalism. If I were about to enter the church,…
Iris Subel Davis: Now What?
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by Iris Subel Davis, teacher, business consultant, and author of God’s Promise of Victory. Well, I’m still waiting; but, now, I honestly do not know for what. As I wrote in my last blog entry, I was literally waiting on notification regarding a position. It was for a faith-based company offering a chance to work from…
From SAD to GLAD
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by David Moffett-Moore [ene_ptp]We live in a time of unparalleled, immeasurable, and uncontrollable change. The cell phone in our pocket is more powerful than all the computers used for our lunar landing, and that cell phone is obsolete before we can buy it. Everything is changing, and the change is happening at an ever…
Identity and Inheritance: The View of Things from the Heavenly Horizon
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by Allan R. Bevere Several years ago, I was in Cuba on a teaching mission. One afternoon, during some free time, our hosts took us to a mountain on the Isle of Youth. There was a path up the side of the mountain, and those of us who were able and willing, were invited…
A Theological "Chicken or Egg"
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by Bob Cornwall In a previous posting I raised the question of what baptism might look like, or at least be understood, in the context of the practice of the Open Table. If all are invited to the Lord’s Table, where does that leave baptism? As I’ve noted in previous essays I am part of a…