By John McCort Christianity is not all black and white. There are some gray areas in which we must all use our better judgment as to whether the practice is expedient or not. There are some things that might not be condemned but are wrong because they are not expedient. “All things are lawful, but not …
Yearly Archives: 2012
Human Service Institutions Among Brethren:
By Ron Halbrook The Need For Balanced Vigilance (1) Only the Bible can settle the question of whether a practice is Scriptural, but we may learn much about attitudes and their consequences from the lives of men and movements. This latter point is as true with reference to religious issues as with all others. Such biographical …
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Be Not Fe The Servants Of Men
By Dan Walters The Apostle Paul in I Cor. 7:23 said, “Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.” Certain kinds of liberty are desirable. We wish to be free from the oppression of tyrants and from sin. But it is also true that every man serves some master. Libertines are …
The Church And The Individual (1)
By Mike Willis The failure to separate what the congregation, as such, can do and the individual can do in the service of the Lord is the cause of much misunderstanding in the church today. Two modern theories have been advanced with reference to the relationship between the church and the individual: (1) What the Christian …