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 …
Author Archives: Mark Mayberry
Unity in 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 …
Terms of Membership
By Irven Lee The Lord built His church and paid for it with His blood. He is its head and has all authority in it. It is not my church, your church, or our church. It is not ours to plan its mission or work, nor do we enter it except by pleasing God so that, …
Apostasies In Worship
By Leslie Diestelkamp The Bible says, “Worship God,” and it is the responsibility of Christians to discern from the written Word what God wants us to do to express that worship and how He wants us to express it. By precept, approved example and necessary inference, the New Testament reveals the will of God in this …