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Biblical Theology

nine characteristics of a healthy church

After the first point, even the centrality of Scripture in worship and preaching in the treated has, we need to define more precisely this concern. Many people speak of the Bible, without the same doctrine to preach. At this point we should check the contents of the sermon to be determined.

If a community wants to be spiritually healthy, it must declare the "sound doctrine". Even Paul encourages his employees Timothy and Titus to counter the false teaching in this way.

"But you speak, how's become sound doctrine (Titus 2:1)."

rightly be brought only with the "sound doctrine" people - for the salvation aligned. The apostle knew even then that the very people tend to listen to their own preference and act.

"For there will come a time when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, they are themselves teachers according to which itch their ears (2 Timothy 4:4)."

is precisely why It still is that it helps anyone, if he is simply confirming only. We need things will be put restriction. A municipality must have a clear view of teaching. Theology must not remain empty, but for the benefit of the members should be full to bursting. Especially the so-called difficult subjects like to be ignored and avoided in preaching and pastoral care. In this way we lose the answers to important questions.

• Are the people of Fundamentally good or bad? Do we need to encourage people and building self-worth, or he needs forgiveness and new life?
• What Jesus accomplished by his death on the cross? He opened a way or did he take our place?
• What happens when someone becomes a Christian?
• Can we, if we are Christians, to be sure that God will provide even more for our salvation? If so, What is the basis of this commitment?

All these and many other questions are not easy to answer. But the answers are important for all Christians. The "sound doctrine" must be proclaimed with clarity and biblical authority, to strengthen the listeners in his faith. Only if the members of the congregation are led to confidence in the Scriptures, which reveals everything that is used for healing, the pastors, ministers and elders to their pastoral ministry have perceived correctly.

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Should we pray for vengeance?

I recently read at a community event to launch the ninth Psalm Not because I particularly would have it pleasure to do evil to my enemies, but simply because this Psalm in my personal reading Psalm turn came. After I had said a few words on how this Psalm - Psalm a vengeance - is to understand from the New Testament perspective, it broke out of a present:

"The is Old Testament! That makes me angry! We have nothing to do with revenge
more! God's wrath is satisfied by Jesus! "

Then followed general, affected silence. And I was silent because this is not the place was, theological discussions and fight out because I had just tried to indicate in a few sentences, the New Testament view of these psalms to . explain

But the scene made me even more to think about. Does the Manichean heresy of the evil god in the Old and the good Lord in the New Testament still? To what extent we are infected with it? "I want to ask at this point, God's wrath God's revenge against the background of the cross of Jesus in your View to explain. To what extent can we pray with the Psalms or revenge? If we, as I have experienced so far without exception in all the Christian events, stop reading when we get to Psalm 139 in verse 19?

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Full Holy Spirit

Paul asks us to be filled with the Holy Spirit (Eph 5:18) to lead a life that is worthy of our calling (Eph 4:1). This gonna be Christians from different denominations and backgrounds confirm the same way.
But how this performance looks like and especially how it is achieved, in answering this question a divorce then the spirits.

It's not even that difficult to answer that, if the cohesion of a closer look.
The NIV translation is an important detail visible when the Partizipialform at the beginning of v. 19 with 'by' reflects: full of "Will Spirit 'by' you talk to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs .... thanks says ... " etc.

spiritual truth in song, thanksgiving, these are things that fill us with the Holy Spirit. We might be confused here a bit, as we think we can sing into it to a fulfillment of the spirit, so that the whole is more a matter of mood and feelings. That can
but its not. It's about the spiritual content of the songs, not the experience of singing. This becomes clear when one reads the passage in context. makes

Another context it even more! It is the parallel in Colossians. In Col. 3, 16 and 17, we find the same statements as in Eph 5.18 to 20, except that just at the beginning is not the fulfillment called with the spirit, but the prompt, "the word of Christ richly dwell in us" to let .
This is therefore the same thing in other words expressed. What is to let the word dwell richly among us is to be filled with the Holy Spirit.

that this is true, has confirmed several times in the past. In the most enormous magnitude probably in the Reformation. Where the word is, there is filled with the Holy Spirit, and therefore also life from God, renewal, revival.
Only a return to the Word of God as a measure and resources for the life of a dying church is conceived back to life.
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