Tag: tradition
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Buck Tradition
“We’ve always done it that way,” I heard a long-time member of a church I served a while back say when I mentioned that I wanted to evaluate the way we were doing ministry according to Scripture. Jesus taught about the place of traditional practices. When we hear Jesus’s teaching, something about His person and…
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Is Tradition Authoritative for the Church?
Submit your questions using the contact form on this site, on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or LinkedIn. Many churches, denominations, and entire religious systems elevate tradition as authoritative. This is one of the disagreements that separates the Roman and Protestant churches. The fact of the matter is, Scripture explicitly instructs followers of Jesus to hold to…
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Proclaim 2019- Session 2- Teaching
One of the easiest things for teachers to do is rush to prepare. We can easily fail to put the time needed into knowing before teaching. The result is that we misrepresent God’s word. God’s word is far too important to present flippantly. Preparation is the difficult and time consuming part of this process. Today,…
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Doing New Things Urgently- Missions
When we lived in North Carolina, we had been at a church for about eight months. We took the youth to summer camp, and our being at summer camp meant there were always pictures being taken. When we arrived back home and looked at the pictures, I saw that I was much bigger than I…
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Does Religious Dogma Have a Place Among God’s People?
I remember the very first cell phone I ever had: It was bulky, the screen was the size of a quarter and all I could do with it was talk and text. There was a time before that when cell phones did not exist and even when house-phones hadn’t been thought of. The progress…