True Discipleship Can you have evangelism without discipleship or discipleship without evangelism? In the days of the early church the answer was an emphatic “no.” But what of today? Do we see people responding to a gospel message but showing no desire to take any further steps? Yes we do. And do we see people
Make Disciples Ask six Christians what God has called His Church to do and you’re likely to get six different answers. But anyone reading Matthew’s gospel would have been struck by Jesus’ final instructions to His disciples “… go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of
Tread Carefully I wonder what it must have been like to be amongst those in the Exodus who went through the parted Red Sea. If there were more than 600,000 men, we can only assume the total was around two to three million. Although all were descendants of Abraham, that would have had little impact
Our Inner Life I love watching people. At a restaurant or any other public place, I enjoy sitting so I can see the people going past. I often wonder what kind of lives they’ve known. In most cases, how we look on the outside and how we look on the inside are much related. A
God in You God’s desire has always been to dwell “in the midst” of His people. The pattern was set with Adam and Eve as God walked “in the garden in the cool of the day” (Genesis 3:9). Sin caused God to draw back knowing His glory would be destructive against humanity’s rebellion. After the
First the Vertical We tend to think of the children of Israel coming out of Egypt as a unified group. There’s very little evidence to suggest they saw themselves as such. They were almost all children of Abraham but their forefather Abraham had died almost five hundred years earlier. They had some leaders but no
The Seriousness of Sin God’s anger against sin is not preached about frequently. Such a message has to present God as ultra pure, and a God who demands justice. But these qualities alone needn’t colour our perception of God wrongly. Jesus was ultra pure. Hebrews 7:26 describes Jesus as “holy, blameless, pure, set apart from
God’s Own Purpose Sometimes we can be left with the harrowing picture of Jesus and the heavenly Father at opposite ends of the love spectrum. Some people imagine Jesus wrestling His angry Father to the floor, pulling the whip out of His hands and forcing Him to be merciful to lost humanity. Nothing could be
NOT Living a Lie “If it somehow turned out that Christianity wasn’t true, that Jesus wasn’t all he said he was, even that there was no God, I would not regret living the Christian life for a moment.” Have you ever heard someone say something like that? I know I have. In fact I was
Feed on God’s Word ‘He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord’
