The Gooch Lane church of Christ is a group of people in Madison, Alabama seeking to study the Bible and put God’s teachings into practice. We’d love to have you join us for Bible study and worship.
All in Faith
Can you see yourself in this story? We have a lot in common with Rick. We are the helpless sons.
Let us consider this: What is harder? Causing a mountain to move, or rising from the dead? If we have already come to accept that Jesus rose from the dead, and that through his life we too shall find hope in His resurrection, then why do we find the statement about moving mountains so difficult?
Despite whatever dangers may be present, personal safety must never become more important than faithfulness to God.
When we live in this manner, we trivialize God in the most blasphemous way. Unlike the atheist who believes there is no God to be dealt with, we believe that we don’t really have to deal with the God who does exist.
Should our descendants discover extraordinary things about this world far into the future, should they set foot on planets we can only see dimly through telescopes, should they live with extraordinary technology that to us would be science fiction, but to them is just prosaic, the love of Christ will be greater still.
These good saints loved the Lord and loved Paul; because of this, they wanted to be a part of his work.
Why did God send so many prophets to the Northern Kingdom which did not obey him? Because God loved them. Because a physician goes to those who are sick. Because a good shepherd knows which sheep are his.
While this method of seeking authority has never been mainstream, recent years have seen some of its former advocates dismiss the approach. CENI (command, example, necessary inference), the term to which some have relegated the idea, is viewed as unsustainable. Instead, some who once sought authority in this way have moved on to the second philosophy of adaptation. Such a move beckons the following question: “Is primitivism still relevant?”
