By Mike Willis The history of denominations has a rather clearly distinguishable period in which these churches became involved in attempting to improve the society around them. This movement has been identified as the “social gospel” and began to show itself in American denominations in the late years of the nineteenth century. During these years, a …
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By Ron Halbrook Paul commended the church at Thessalonica because it had “sounded out the word of the Lord” both locally and in other regions (1 Thess. 1:8). The church at Thessalonica had grown out of the efforts of other men who loved the Lord and loved the lost. Paul had received repeated encouragement from the …
By O.C. Birdwell, Jr. Many do not understand what the church that Jesus built is, and often have no concept of the nature of the church. Because of this there is much misunderstanding about the relationship of the church to salvation. We, therefore, hear such statements as, “The church is not the Savior,” and, “The church …
By Irvin Himmel “. . . I would rather be the man that walked out and injected the sword into the body of Christ on the cross than to be responsible for having injected into the spiritual body of Christ that which has torn it asunder.” These words were spoken by N.B. Hardeman in 1922. He …
