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.
What seems impossible to man can be accomplished by God. No one else could have restored the people of Israel back to Zion other than God.
. In everyday conversation, speech should be gracious, with the right seasoning applied.
Without endurance, Christians “draw back to perdition” (Heb 10:38-39). Being burdened and ensnared in sin, they cease to run their race (Heb 12:1).
The people of God, like the rest of humanity, struggle with this fear of the future syndrome; thus, God provides sound wisdom for keeping things in perspective. While future planning is never condemned, the biblical concept of preparedness is in meeting the needs of the day.
“Many things about tomorrow, I don’t seem to understand; but I know who holds tomorrow, and I know who holds my hand.”
If a man will divest his mind of all thoughts of this church or that church, this creed or that creed, and simply open the Book and do what it teaches him, God will “add” that man to his church.
What they did in repentance and baptism, however, gave them no ground for boasting or claim of credit for their conversion, for without God’s grace they would not have ceased the practice of sin (Titus 2:11-12) and without His love there would have been no forgiveness.
This attitude has somewhat naturally led to a “buy now, pay later” mentality that has landed many Americans in financial peril. In this, Christians must take great caution
