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  • This will lead to an opportunity for your testimony.

    Once again, the Bible comes in and turns upside-down man’s thinking completely right-side up. The Christian people nowadays, including the missionally-oriented ones, tend to think that the menacing Beast of the Sea (even if they don’t know it by that name), with his scary intimidation threats, is a barrier to the advance of the message…

  • Two Different “Christianities”

    Two different religions currently live together in the same house called “Christianity.” There are a number of ways to describe and delineate the distinction between the two different “Christianities.” One way to distinguish between them is in terms of which world is in focus. One form of “Christianity” is primarily concerned with this world (Heb.…

  • A Missiology of Messiness

    [L]ight has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. (John 3:19) In such a dark world as this one, there is no “clean” path to the introduction of powerful illumination. Light is disruptive to darkness. The gospel of the kingdom will not be proclaimed…

  • An Ephesian Theology of Apostleship

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    We need apostles. To complete the Great Commission task Jesus left His church to occupy herself with until His return, we need apostles. To truly reach the Muslim world with the genuine gospel message, not the distorted message of historic Christendom, but the true gospel of forgiveness and new life in Christ as we eagerly…

  • Partner in the Work for a Last Days Reformation, Revival, and Spirit-Empowered Missional Thrust to the Hardest-to-Reach Peoples of the Earth

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    If possible, please view the fully hyperlinked and better formatted pdf version of this post instead. Greetings! Shalom aleichem = Peace be upon you = As-salamu alaykum. Zekeriya Harrıs here writing to you today from İzmir Province in Türkiye, site of ancient Ephesus — prototypical city of lost lampstands. To friends and to prospective friends.The…

  • The Way of Jesus v. the Christendomianity of Nicaea

    Two different religions.

  • False Gods vs False Worship

    What is the distinction between the first and second of the Ten Commandments? For many years the two subconsciously blurred together in my mind. My assumption was that when you make an idol you are worshipping a false god, and so I basically just heard both commandments to be saying, “Don’t do that.” Puritan authors…

  • Power

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    Fulfillment of Jesus’ Great Commission, which missionary-minded (i.e. Biblically-minded) Christians long to see, simply will not happen without far greater manifestation of Acts 1:8 martyr-witness empowerment than most of us modern Western believers are used to seeing. Indeed, the Spirit of Pentecost was bestowed for this purpose: to grant POWER for Christ’s disciples to serve…

  • The Failure of the Nicene Agenda

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    Constantine’s goal in convening the Nicene council was to resolve some disputes among Christians, in order to attain ecclesiastical unity, in service of (presumably his ultimate goal) of political unity within the empire. One problem with that program is that ideas about Jesus (e.g. homoousios) are not what bind the body of Christ together. Rather,…

  • Two “Christianities”

    There are many different people named “John Smith.” Using probabilistic modelling, ChatGPT estimates that we should expect more than 50,000 John Smiths worldwide, and LinkedIn produces 97,000 hits for people with that name (although that number could easily be inflated for various reasons). I likewise propose that a number of entirely different things go by…