Archives for September 2020

I fully realize that one cannot make sound and lasting judgments based on one’s personal experience, especially if that experience was not repeated. I know it is dangerous to come up with generalized principles borne of the same. I make these statements in relation to the matter of Christian discipleship. When is it that Christian […]

The church has had diverse and divergent views on the issue of baptism. What does it signify? What value does it have? When should it be administered, at infancy or later in life? Is the sprinkling of water or immersion the Biblical example? What happens if a child or an adult is never baptized? These […]

The discussion presented on this website on the significance of baptism to a follower of Jesus from a Middle Eastern background, leads me to broach another issue that is directly related. In many ways it stems from the discussion on baptism. This is about the public confession of faith. In the discussion on baptism I […]

The God-given purpose of the church can be considered in terms of its worship, its community, and its responsibilities towards its environment, both people and creation. However, it is a distortion of the nature of the Church to collapse all the valid dimensions of its life into its external mission, “to go,” as Jesus stated […]