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The Saving Life of Christ

There is something which makes Christianity more than a religion, more than an ethic, and more than the idle dream of the sentimental idealist.  It is this something which makes it relevant to each one of us right now as a contemporary experience.  It is the fact that Christ Himself is the very life content [...]

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Tithing and the New Testament Church

Some provocative words from Michael Spencer (aka, ‘Internet Monk’) at his blog this week:
Tithing to a local church … is a practice that I can’t see being scripturally required in any new covenant sense. I was taught my entire life that God commanded me to tithe to my local church. Awareness of the larger needs [...]

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The Attack of the Zealots

A couple of years ago, Scot McKnight wrote on his blog, Jesus Creed, about zealotry.  I was struck by his definition so much that I cut and pasted it for safe keeping!
Zealotry is conscious zeal to be radically committed, so radically committed that one goes beyond the Bible to defend things that are not in [...]

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