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Is “Naming and Shaming” a Good Way to Achieve Compliance?
by David Larson | 23 July 2018 | The proposals of Unity Oversight Committee which the General Conference Administrative Committee approved on July 17, 2018 are bad and they should rejected. This is because they would add for the first time the practice of “naming and shaming” to official General Conference policy. This would have […]
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A Goodness in God’s Justice
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. Matthew 10:28. How repugnant to every emotion of love and mercy, and even to our sense of justice, is the doctrine that the wicked dead are tormented with fire and brimstone in an eternally burning hell; that for the sins of a brief earthly life they are to suffer torture as long as God shall live…. Where, in the pages of God’s Word, is such teaching to be found? Will the redeemed in heaven be lost to all emotions of pity and compassion, and even to feelings of common humanity?
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Rose’s Devotionals are prepared by Rose Hartwell, one of the Intercer founders. Since 1999, Rose sends out a daily devotional newsletter that includes a commentary on a Bible passage, a list of prayer requests for the current week and an illustration from daily life that applies to the Bible passage in study.
4: The First Church Leaders – Singing with Inspiration
Our theme of: Hymn 378, “Go, Preach My Gospel” commences the study this week as many Hellenistic believers went about “bearing witness to the entire world”. Hymn 346, “Lord, Who Dost Give to Thy Church” is what was requested by the early church believers for all who were involved in spreading the gospel. We may also sing: Hymn 368, “Watchman, Blow the Gospel Trumpet” . The apostles went about teaching and preaching.
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4: The First Church Leaders – Discussion Starters
The appointment of the seven. If you were on the “nominating committee” to choose seven officers to take care of fellowship activities in the early church, what characteristics would you look for? Why do you think that the apostles needed help in handling these activities? How important was it for the chosen deacons to be acknowledged in a public rite? Stephen’s ministry
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