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Instrumental Music and Expediency

2 Comments / Church, Doctrinal / Jonathan Jenkins

What does the audience hear in the debate? It hears inconsistency. Our argument sounds contrived. It contradicts their own experience. The singing they have done for their entire life has been helped by instruments of music. Now, we are compelled to convince them that their perception contradicts reality. It is a tough sell. The progressive has placed us in exactly the right position to sway the undecided in our congregations.

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The Marks of a Meaningless Baptism-Part 2

Doctrinal, Salvation / David Stafford

Baptism is only meaningful when it is observed according to the Scriptures (John 17:17)! Sadly, religions drastically differ about how this is practiced and why it is practiced.

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Your Spirit or the Holy Spirit?

Doctrinal, Holy Spirit / Jonathan Jenkins

The man of the flesh, the carnal man, and the natural man are all the same person. He is the man who lives after the works-based philosophy embodied by the Pharisaical Judaizer. The man of the spirit is the man who had understood the teaching of the gospel brought by Paul and has rejected that philosophy of works.

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Marks of a Meaningless Baptism Part 1

Doctrinal, Salvation / David Stafford

Many religious-minded people agree that baptism is important. Few religious-minded people, however, practice scriptural baptism and believe it to be essential to salvation (Acts 2:38; 1 Pet. 3:21).

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What Does It Mean to be “Full of the Holy Spirit?”

1 Comment / Doctrinal, Holy Spirit / Jonathan Jenkins

From Micah’s proclamation of his superior prophetic abilities over the disgraced prophets of his age; to the announcement of John’s prophetic ministry in announcing the coming of the Christ; to the overflowing examples of prophecy from Elizabeth and Zechariah; and to the apostles’ utterance of unknown tongues, the meaning of these individuals’ being full of the Spirit is undeniable. Each of these people was a prophet of God.

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The Sanctification of the Holy Spirit

Doctrinal, Holy Spirit / Jonathan Jenkins

But what if Paul’s expression of “sanctification by the Spirit” was not a statement of one’s possession of salvation? What if instead of reading those words and seeing the statement that God through His Spirit sanctifies those who are saved, we read that God sanctified through His Spirit those He was going to save?

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What Must I Do to be Saved?

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Casting the First Stone

Doctrinal, Textual / Jonathan Jenkins

They state clearly that the woman was caught in the act of committing adultery. I know times have changed, but not that much. Then, just as now, it takes two people to commit adultery. By definition, if they caught the woman in the act of adultery, they also caught the man.

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Am I Still Saved?

Doctrinal / Jonathan Jenkins

If God is supposedly helping me in my struggles and I still am not able to overcome them . . . well, the problem cannot reside in God. The only conclusion that is left to me is that there is something amiss in my faith.

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Am I Saved?

Doctrinal / Jonathan Jenkins

If it is true that every spiritual blessing is “in Christ,” what is there outside of Him? The answer is not encouraging for those who choose to remain outside of Christ.

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