Lesson 5: THE SENDING SPIRIT (3) Scripture: Zechariah 4:6; Acts 2:1–4; I Corinthians 2:9-11; Galatians 2:20; Ephesians 4:11–16 The great missionary holiday on the church calendar is Pentecost -and with good reason. The Holy Spirit came with the rushing of a mighty wind which filled the house where the disciples were gathered. Upon each of […]
The question is this: Is Evangelism Thrust a strategy for something else, something in addition to or coincidental with evangelism? And what is that something else? That something else that seems to be an additional or related strategy is simply the remaking of the Christian Reformed Church. When the Consultant of Classis Florida for Evangelism […]
Scripture: John 20:19–23; Luke 24:45–48; II Corinthians 4:1–8; I Peter 2:1–10; I Peter 3:8–16 One of the most exciting aspects of the church is its work of missions. Angels in heaven rejoice over every sinner that repents, and so should the church. In this society season we are presenting Bible Studies on Evangelism. It is […]
The Reformed faith has a great future in the South. Population and industry are moving in that direction. On the state and local level the Chamber of Commerce is going all out to attract new industry from the North. Low taxes, a labor force untouched by labor unions. and escape from big city problems are […]
These are exciting days for any witness or evangelist! Ours is a world in flux. A world constantly growing smaller by fast travel, communications media, and scientific achievements. The fearful debauchery of our times has made this moment in history a time of balancing and weighing, of judging and measuring. But along with the problems […]
We read in Revelation 20 that an angel bound the dragon, who is Satan, and threw him into the abyss, where he is to stay for one thousand years (vss. 2, 3). This one thousand years has been called the millennium, which is a Latin word for “one thousand.” Some Christians describe the millennium as […]
The concern of this brief article is a report entitled “The Grand Rapids Inner City And The Christian Reformed Church.” This report, as we understand, has been addressed and sent to the consistories of the Grand Rapids Christian Reformed churches. It seeks to alert these churches to the problems existing in the inner city, and […]
Dear Christian friends, “Be thou an example of the believers, in word, manner of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.” I Tim. 4:12b. These words of Paul were repeatedly in my mind the last number of weeks. Paul simply told Timothy that he had to be an example of believers in various […]
Campus Crusade is mushrooming, and has begun to work in Great Britain. Every active Christian student at University is certain to meet up with this movement sooner or later, and it is only proper that he should know something about it as soon as possible. The movement stems from the United States of America, and […]
Food prices will undoubtedly rise in the United States in the next five years. Alongside the general climb in the cost of living, a major factor contributing to the rise will be the organization of migrant farm-workers into labor unions. Indeed, the most dynamic front in labor organizing today is among the under-paid, under-clothed, under-educated, […]