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The Bible’s Answer To The Question: What Is A Christian? |
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Written by Wayne Mack
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What is a Christian? No other question is so surrounded with confusion or answered so variously. Ask ten different people this question and you will get five or six different answers. Here are six opinions which are commonly held about the essence of Christianity.
1. “Well, I certainly am a Christian; I’m doing the best I can. I try to live by the Ten Commandments, the Golden Rule and the Sermon on the Mount.”
2. “Most assuredly, I’m a Christian. If I’m not, I don’t know who is. My mother and father are very religious. I have an uncle who is a minister.” |
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Fathers, Instruct Your Children |
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Written by Kim Riddlebarger
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Fathers, Instruct Your Children
The Need To Recover the Practise of Catechism
Growing up in American fundamentalism, as I did, the very word "catechism" brought to my mind images of the liberalism of mainline Protestant denominations, or some mysterious Roman Catholic ritual that could have no biblical support whatsoever. As a "Bible church" person, I was taught from my earliest youth that "catechism" was at best a worthless practice, if not downright dangerous to the soul. But if you were to have asked me just what exactly "catechism" was, I'm not sure that I could have given you an answer. Growing up with such misconceptions, I often viewed my friends who attended "catechism" classes as people who could not possibly be "born again" and therefore, in desperate need of evangelization. For unlike their misguided and dead church, our church had no creed but Christ, and we needed no such "man-made" guides to faith since we depended upon the Bible alone. Whatever "catechism" was, I wanted no part of it! |
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Written by Rev. R. Dale Tedder, Jr.
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Perhaps you remember the plane that crashed in 1989 on its way from Denver to Chicago. That plane, Flight 232, is perhaps best remembered for two things. One is the graphic picture of it cartwheeling across the cornfields in Iowa as it crashed. The second thing is that 185 people survived that fiery crash. |
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