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Articles on this site express varying points of view, to encourage mature thinking on serious issues. The assumption is that you will want to study a controversial topic from various angles before you arrive at a conclusion, rather than simply believe what someone told you when you were impressionable! (So some stuff here is ‘hot’. Proceed at your own risk!). See the Statement of Faith for John Mark Ministries' theological stance.

Is Gandhi In Heaven? (Christianity and Other Religions)

By and others ⋅ January 5, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light of all people. And the Word became […]

Sacraments

By and others ⋅ January 5, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh. One Lord, one faith, one baptism. He went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for […]

Evangelicals

By and others ⋅ January 5, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

We [Barna] asked a national sample of adults who are not associated with Christian churches and found the following:  · Only one-third of those who have no connection with Christianity have a favorable impression of born again Christians; just one- fifth feel positively towards evangelicals Did they ask how people felt about Jesus? 🙂 Jude […]

Recovering The Evangel

By and others ⋅ January 5, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

By Jim Wallis I AM AN evangelical Christian. The word “evangelical” is a good one. At least, it used to be. It has its origin in the root word “evangel” which means “good news.” In fact, the word translated in the New Testament as “evangelist” is the noun from a verb which means “to announce […]

Evangelicals And ‘Who’s A Christian?’

By and others ⋅ January 5, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

I’ve a lot of time for Alive magazine. But I note the phrase “Bible believing Christians”. By their own admission, not everyone who calls themselves Christian is included. And this is valid, Jesus said that not everyone who calls themselves a Christian really acknowledges Him, and therefore will not be acknowledged by Him when it […]

Virgin Birth

By and others ⋅ January 5, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

More than a quarter of Church of England clergy do not believe in the virgin birth of Christ, a survey has found. http://www.smh.com.au/text/articles/2002/12/22/1040510964543.htm

Theological Virginity

By and others ⋅ January 5, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Loved this quote from an English article on clergy beliefs: Thank God our daughters never sprouted that line to us! Happy Christmas!

Lordship

By and others ⋅ January 5, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

From a netfriend: I think loving God (heart, soul etc.) and loving my neighbour are inseparable. I cannot effectively do one without the other. I am interested to know why you (and anyone else) find the word “Lord” so special and meaningful? (this is an honest query, not a suggestion you should not find the […]

Lord

By and others ⋅ January 5, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Someone wrote: I was assuming that it was an oversight when Charles Worthington left the phrase ‘with all your heart, soul, mind and strength’ out of his email. Perhaps I’ll appear to be nit-picking, but I think it’s vitally important: isn’t it the essence of true worship? Without this vertical dimension I know *I* can’t […]

Jesus Loves The Bad Guys!

By and others ⋅ January 5, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

(Mark 2:13-17) The story of the call to Levi (Mark 2:13-17) is a concrete example of the biblical idea of grace. Levi was a tax-collector. Tax-collectors were so despised because they not only collected regular taxes from the people for the Temple but they also gathered a further tax for the Romans. They were hated […]

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