The Point of the Sword 4
This morning’s lecture here The Point of the Sword 4
Point of the Sword 2
In today’s lecture. point of the sword 3
The first of my Moore College lectures is available here
Several times now I have sat with a group of leaders from a church as they have tried to thrash out, from the basics, what their church was about. Fundamentally. Sometimes it was driven by gospel passion, or the vision of a new leader. Once, frankly, it was driven by despair. It was a church
‘Pastor’ – it is an odd word that needs first translating as ‘shepherd’, and then explaining and clarifying every time we use it. But it has stood the test of time as one of the fundamental metaphors of Christian ministry. No other word seems to capture the idea of gentle leadership, modelled on Jesus. But
At the time of the Reformation the church had to learn that it had twisted some biblical vocabulary out of its biblical shape. The word ‘priest’, which is biblically a word ensuring free and open access of all of God’s people, who are all priests, had become limited to a few, who stood as
What, then, are we to make of the place of singing in our meetings? It was a major feature of the Old Testament Tabernacle and Temple, and even though there are fewer mentions in the New Testament, there are enough to indicate it was a normal feature of Christian life, individually and corporately, spontaneous and
Titus 2:1-15 We sing, we pray, and then we listen to a sermon and go to sleep. Of course there are reasons why we go to sleep – and as someone with a busy job and two young children I find the silence and lack of distraction as tempting as the next parent. But
