Restless Love

Read Ephesians 4:1-3 … In the field of Christian Ethics, finding an overriding ethical force is not that difficult. Jesus, after being grilled by the Pharisees and Sadducees with questions they surely thought couldn’t have been answered “safely,” is finally asked by a scribe (a person intimately familiar with the law) what is now considered …

Active and Healthy

Read Matthew 11:1-6 … While the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus is certainly the climax of His redemptive work, the sum of His earthly work also helps to define the mission of the Church. While the Church cannot repeat the death of Christ since His atoning death was “a unique and unrepeatable work for …

Worship and Assembly

Read John 4:21-24 … Ferguson’s book on the Church of Christ wouldn’t have been complete without a section dealing with worship and assembly. Indeed, both worship and assembly are so ingrained in one’s understanding of church that often those are the only avenues ever considered while contemplating what it means to “do church.” In view …

There Can Be Only One

Read Ephesians 4:14-16 … When discussing who is a member of the Church, one often falls into a denominational pattern of thought and comes to this conclusion, “The members of the Church are those that have joined us.” In the Scriptures, this is never the pattern that is set forth. Everett Ferguson puts it this …