Posts Tagged ‘Disagreement’
Dealing with Conflict While Shepherding the Flock (Part 3 of 3)
For the first and second parts of this three-part series, click here and here. In our last two posts, we considered the sources of conflict and two kinds of conflict that we might face and how to respond. In this post, we will consider two more kinds of conflict and what our response should be,…
Read MoreDealing with Conflict While Shepherding the Flock (Part 2)
For the first part of this three-part series, click here. In our previous post, we identified three sources of conflict in the church—satanic attack, sinful hearts, and genuine disagreement. In this post, we will identify two of four kinds of conflict that we might face and how should we respond. Kinds of Conflict and How…
Read MoreDealing with Conflict While Shepherding the Flock
Ministry is often not as tidy as we would like it to be. It is redeemed sinners called to minister selflessly, and model Christ to other redeemed sinners. and to reach out to those who need the redemption that is only available in Christ Jesus. Because we live in a sinful world, and because Christians…
Read MoreWhy Interpretational Disagreements?
Besides the Fundamentals, is there anything that all Fundamentalists agree on? The question is facetious … sort of. But somewhere in the tagline of most of our churches are three words: Baptist, Fundamental, and Independent. It’s the ramifications of that last one that this column addresses, especially the hermeneutical ramifications— that is, our differences in…
Read MoreStraight Cuts: Christian Liberty Texts
by Mark Minnick This article first appeared in FrontLine • May/June 2004. Click here to subscribe to the magazine. This isn’t about some one text but about a category of them — those that deal with what we tend to call “doubtful things.” Passages such as Romans 14 and 1 Corinthians 8 through 10, and…
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