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"How can we help students to understand that the tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy is to die with commitments undefined and convictions undeclared and service unfulfilled? "-Vachel Lindsay
Dear Gentle Reader,
"How can Christians read and study the same Bible, yet come away with opposite conclusions?" Perhaps you too have been asked the very same question. Every Christian should be able to study and gain a deeper understanding of the Scriptures concerning salvation, grace, and the second coming of Christ. These are fundamentals of the faith, yet many believers struggle with these truths from Scripture for themselves.
The Foundation of Christian Faith
Our Christian faith does not hang upon air but is firmly grounded in divine revelation. God reveals Himself in the universe which He has created, in human history, especially the history of the Christian Church, and in the preaching of the Gospel. But above all God reveals Himself in the pages of the Holy Scriptures. For without the Scriptures these other modes of divine revelation would avail us little. As John Calvin observed, the Scriptures are the spiritual eyeglasses which enable our sin-blinded minds to see aright the revelation which God makes of Himself in nature. Also the Scriptures are the key which unlocks the mysteries of history and reveals to us God's plan. And finally, the Scriptures are that pure well of divine truth to which the preachers of the Gospel must continually repair and fill their silver pitchers. The Scriptures, therefore, are the foundation of faith. In them, alone God's revelation of Himself is found unobscured by human error. They are the Word of God, which liveth and abideth forever (I Peter 1:23).
Dr. Edward F. Hills, Th.D. Believing Bible Study, 2nd Edition,
We are the Body of Christ.
We are a very diverse group... we Christians...
each of us bring to the Body our own
personality and our own personal insight.
We all are commanded
to encourage and support each other...
to offer each other our thoughts and,
if needed to gently correct through a sincere
and helpful attitude... in summary...
to grow with each other.
In these current times we must all
be aware of identity theft...
a certain amount of privacy is needed.
We must be careful not to give out
certain information and make it public.
However we, as the Body of Christ,
must also be careful of what C. S. Lewis calls
"selfish privacy".
"The sacrifice of selfish privacy
which is daily demanded of us
is daily repaid a hundredfold
in the true growth of personality
which the life of the Body encourages."
- C. S. Lewis
It is important that we get on the same page wouldn't you agree Gentle Reader? "Can two walk together, except they be agreed?" Book of Amos Chapter 3 verse 3.
The road less traveled
Love, Denis
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