What Have We Lost Before the Cross? Jürgen Moltmann opens the preface of his landmark work The Crucified God (1972) with these words: “The Christian life of theologians, churches and human beings is faced more than ever today with a double crisis: the crisis of relevance and the crisis of identity.” This single sentence still… Continue reading The Crisis of Relevance and the Crisis of Identity — Moltmann’s Diagnosis of the Church’s Dilemma
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The Church Is His Body
“The church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.” — Ephesians 1:23 (ESV) What is the church? The question presses upon us today with a peculiar urgency. Some think of the church as a building they visit on Sunday mornings. Others identify it with a denomination, or simply as… Continue reading The Church Is His Body
Why Sola Scriptura? The Case for Scripture Alone
There was a thousand years of silence. Ordinary believers in medieval Europe had never held a Bible in their hands. The Scriptures, written in Latin, belonged exclusively to the clergy. Worship was conducted in a language no one could understand, and salvation could only be obtained by following the procedures prescribed by the Church. To… Continue reading Why Sola Scriptura? The Case for Scripture Alone
The Church That Gathered Daily: Where Are We Now?
Most churches today revolve around a single Sunday gathering. The doors open on Sunday morning and close by noon, and the congregation scatters back into their individual lives. In the meantime, the world never stops. YouTube algorithms pour out messages around the clock, social media continuously shapes how people see the world, and the digital… Continue reading The Church That Gathered Daily: Where Are We Now?
How Grieved Must God Be — The Bound Children of the King
Do we truly understand what it means to have been born as children of God? Scripture declares that to all who received Jesus Christ, who believed in His name, He gave the right (ἐξουσία, exousia) to become children of God (John 1:12). This is no mere sense of religious belonging. This is a position higher… Continue reading How Grieved Must God Be — The Bound Children of the King
If You Do Not Proclaim, the Stones Will Cry Out
— The Prophetic Mission of the Church in an Age of Civilizational Transition —Luke 19:40 Introduction: The Stones Have Begun to Speak On the day Jesus entered Jerusalem, the Pharisees demanded that the disciples be silenced. Jesus answered: “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.” — Luke 19:40 This… Continue reading If You Do Not Proclaim, the Stones Will Cry Out