The Impact Of Calvinism On The Church In This Century

By Herschel E. Patton For years Calvinism had no impact upon New Testament Christianity at all, except as a heresy to be met by strenuous opposition. Calvinism involves the underlying theme of salvation being wholly by grace and apart from any works or responsibility on the part of man. The theory contends that man is born …

One Eldership Over Many “House Churches” (1)

By Robert F. Turner Alvin Jennings’ book, How Christianity Grows in the City, is an expanded and renamed edition of his original 3 R’s of Urban Church Growth. It caused a stir among liberal churches, including a rather “hot” review by G.K. Wallace in the Gospel Advocate (Nov. 19, ’81); and now the book is being …