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CHRISTIAN ARSENAL Newsletter |
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September
2001 |
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September's Edition focuses on
Worship |
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Worship is my voluntary conscience response to God in which I show my concept
of His Deity, worth, greatness and goodness to me. Jeffrey Ramey
We hear a lot about the term “Worship” in the church today. We have worship
seminars, worship specialists, and more. I am sure if you were to
ask 100 people what worship was you would get 100 different answers.
What I find is so many times when we talk about true
worship, we are really talking about methodology and form.
Traditional worship, Contemporary worship, Biblical worship, Youth
worship services, Children’s worship services and the list goes
on. When Jesus talked about true worship, He had an understanding of
worship that was fundamentally different from every religious group
that came before. Jesus said worship wasn't primarily what happened
in a temple, church or a religious meeting. True worship is what
goes on outside of the walls of a church building and a church
service. Am I saying that worship does not go on in a church and
that what goes on in a church service is not important? Absolutely
not!!! Keep on reading!
Click here to see the rest of the article
http://www.christianarsenal.com/Worship.htm
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Current Christian Issues and Concerns |
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What is a True Christian Church?
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/8/212001c.asp
(AgapePress) - Southern Baptist theologian, Dr. Albert
Mohler, has offered his views on what defines the true Christian church. Mohler is the
president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. And
despite the fact that the debate over what constitutes the true Christian church has
gone on for centuries, Mohler’s definition is surprisingly simple. He says the true church
can be identified by those who confess the Lordship of Christ and who stand on the
authority of scripture. According to Baptist Press, Mohler believes the problem
today is that too few churches are willing to says to their members “Thus saith the Lord.”
Instead, he says, members just do whatever is right in their own eyes, and the churches let
them get away with it. The church’s Authority, Mohler says, is the Word of God. And he says
“any church that will not distinguish between truth and error based on that authority is
not a genuine church.”
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New and Interesting on the Site |
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Biblical & Christian Studies
http://www.christianarsenal.com/.htm
"Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that does not need to be
ashamed, correctly handling the word of truth." II Timothy 2:15
"All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for
doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of
God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works." II Timothy 3:16-17
Here we have links that have proved to be valuable to people who are studying Bible, Philosophy,
Theology, Cults, Church History, Greek, Hebrew, and many other related subjects. This website was
originally developed to help seminary students who were not familiar with the internet to be able
to find resources to prepare lessons, sermons and papers for seminary. It has now expanded
beyond that scope to much, much more!
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Devotional Reading
http://www.christianarsenal.com/Devotional.htm
Why should you read the Bible? To be prepared to meet every
experience in life. To prepare ourselves to become the person God wants us to be.
To accomplish the purpose for which He created us. Reading your Bible is an important
part of your Christian worship. During that time you communicate with God and He communicates
with you. On this page you will find some links to places that have online daily devotionals.
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Christian Reading for the Month of September 2001 |
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Knowing God - J.I. Packer
A lifelong pursuit of knowing God should embody the Christian's existence. According
to eminent theologian J.I. Packer, however, Christians have become enchanted by modern
skepticism and have joined the "gigantic conspiracy of misdirection" by failing
to put first things first. Knowing God aims to redirect our attention to the
simple, deep truth that to know God is to love His Word.
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Cost of Discipleship - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
What can the call to discipleship, the adherence to the word of
Jesus, mean today to the businessman, the soldier, the laborer, or the aristocrat? What did
Jesus mean to say to us? What is his will for us today? Drawing on the Sermon on the Mount,
Dietrich Bonhoeffer answers these timeless questions by providing a seminal reading of
the dichotomy between "cheap grace" and "costly grace." "Cheap
grace," Bonhoeffer wrote, "is the grace we bestow on ourselves...grace without
discipleship....Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the girl
which must be asked for, the door at which a man must know....It is costly because it
costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life."
The Cost of Discipleship is a compelling statement of the demands of sacrifice
and ethical consistency from a man whose life and thought were exemplary articulations of a
new type of leadership inspired by the Gospel, and imbued with the spirit of Christian humanism
and a creative sense of civic duty.
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Have you Registered for our Monthly Drawing |
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Our August winner is Orville T. from Scottsdale, AZ
He will receive a leather bound, gold edged, thumb indexed Bible.
Also, one of our supporters donated an Ultra Trim Pocket, leather bounded New Testaments.
Our winner for this is
Carl D. from Bulawayo, South Africa
In September we're giving away a leather bounded, gold edged,
thumb indexed Bible. You can't win if you don't register.
Click here to register
www.christianarsenal.com/Register.htm
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