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Embassy of Grace
Vol. 20, No. 3 • May/Jun 2011
When Luke records in Acts 2:47 that “the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved,” the “number” in view was not an ambiguous reference. The fulfilling of the Great Commission means adding to the church, the body of Christ, the great number of saints, the people of God whom […]
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And the Lord Added to Their Number
When Luke records in Acts 2:47 that “the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved,” the “number” in view was not an ambiguous reference. The fulfilling of the Great Commission means adding to the church, the body of Christ, the great number of saints, the people of God whom […]
“And He Gave Gifts to Men”
There prevails within visible Christendom today a remarkable indifference toward the public ministry. Some congregations intentionally go years without a called pastor, simply because they find it cheaper to line up weekly pulpit supply. Fewer and fewer Christian parents encourage their sons to consider entering the ministry, a fact reflected in the declining rates of […]
What Do We Do About Sunday School?
While vacationing in Hawaii for our twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, my husband and I worshipped with a local church. The pastor biblically unpacked Acts 7, the story of Stephen. When the pastor described the stoning of Stephen, there was a collective gasp in the room. It was an electrifying moment when we realized that many in […]
The Ministry of Reconciliation
Wherever tensions flare up in the world between nations, it is usually the embassies of both nations that feel the brunt. For example, the U.S. embassy in any part of the world is actually considered U.S. territory: an island in a foreign country. There citizens under threat find shelter and from it diplomats receive and […]
The Importance of Church Office in the Ordinary Ministry
In Scripture all of God’s people are presented as priests, living stones being built into a holy sanctuary. Yet not all of the covenant people are ministers. All are sheep, but not all are shepherds under the Great Shepherd (as Paul especially argues in 1 Cor. 11 and 12). There are different gifts and different […]
Missionalism, Church Style
Even the least traveled among us understands that there are such things as cultural “no-nos” that one would be wise to avoid. Wearing a Los Angeles Lakers jersey in South Boston would be one example (albeit a commendable and heroic one to be sure). In the world of American evangelicalism, one of the most offensive […]
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10 Overlooked Bible Characters Who Shaped Redemptive History
“Faith is an unclean hand that lays hold of the righteous robes of Jesus.” Adriel Sanchez and Producers Aaron Simon and Arianna Quiroz explore the stories of the characters you may not have heard of in Sunday school and explain how these overlooked figures’ stories can encourage the church today.
How Should Protestants Read the Church Fathers?
“Moreover, they unjustly set the ancient fathers against us (I mean the ancient writers of a better age of the church) as if in them they had supporters of their own impiety. If the contest were to be determined by patristic authority, the tide of victory — to put it very modestly — would turn […]
Did Constantine Change the Day of Worship?
Did Constantine change the church’s day of worship from Saturday to Sunday? Pastor Adriel Sanchez addresses this theory that has long been stated online, demonstrating that the Christian practice has been to gather for worship on Sunday, the Lord’s Day, since the first century.
