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Living in Exile: Tourists, Seekers, & Pilgrims
Vol. 10, No. 4 • Jul/Aug 2001
A good deal has been reported in recent years about the remarkable rise in tourism. Every summer, Europeans experience mixed emotions as both the American and Japanese tourists arrive, cameras hanging from necks like pendants. “See Europe in ten days” is actually taken seriously by us because we don’t really intend to get to know […]
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Seekers or Tourists?: Or the Difference Between Pilgrimage and Vacation
A good deal has been reported in recent years about the remarkable rise in tourism. Every summer, Europeans experience mixed emotions as both the American and Japanese tourists arrive, cameras hanging from necks like pendants. “See Europe in ten days” is actually taken seriously by us because we don’t really intend to get to know […]
Faithfulness to Christ’s Mission
Part One: The Theological Issues The following statements spell out Biblical principles for genuine evangelism, in which God Himself grows His church by bringing sinners to faith. Therefore, they are a means of assessing the theology and the various practices advocated by the Church Growth Movement. I. The saving presence of God the Holy Trinity […]
Lost & Found According to the Gospel
Is the believer in Christ a saint or a sinner? On the one hand, Paul calls the redeemed in Christ “saints” in several of his epistles: “All the saints salute you” (2 Cor. 13:13). Christ alone is the Holy One who can share his righteousness with his church by giving his life into death for […]
Lost & Found According to the Gospel
He had an unmistakable look of contempt on his face. “He” was a friend, an unfortunate soul in the pew of an evangelical church who had finally admitted to himself that it was time to, so to speak, get out of Denmark. Like so many, he had discovered something rotten when he came to church […]
The Theological Declaration of Barmen
I. An Appeal to the Evangelical Congregations and Christians in Germany The Confessional Synod of the German Evangelical Church met in Barmen, May 29-31, 1934. Here representatives from all the German Confessional Churches met with one accord in a confession of the one Lord of the one, holy, apostolic Church. In fidelity to their Confession […]
The Cultural Captivity of Seeking: A Round-Table Discussion
This round-table discussion on evangelism took place during the 2000 National Pastors’ Conference held in Atlanta, Georgia. The pastors engaged in the discussion included Alliance Council members Ken Jones, John Nunes, Gene Veith, and Michael Horton, as well as Alistair Begg and Rick Phillips. Horton: We have a situation today where people often wonder, “Can […]
