One of the characteristics of the Word of Faith Movement is that it emphasizes physical healing. According to them Jesus’ atonement not only secured our spiritual healing, but our physical healing too. Christians should simply claim God’s promises by faith and the sick will be made well and the ill restored. Sickness and disease are… Continue reading A word on the Word of Faith movement
How should Christians read the Old Testament?
Most church-goers know the Old Testament stories that they were taught in Sunday School, but many don’t understand or are unaware of the significance of these accounts for the church today. Some Christians have gone to the extreme of rejecting the Old Testament (OT) because of its “Jewishness” and exclusively focus on the “Christian” New… Continue reading How should Christians read the Old Testament?
How should Christians engage with culture?
How we engage with our surrounding culture is a very important question for Christians. Culture may simply be defined as how a society thinks and does things. Your city, your suburb and your friends adhere to and embrace certain cultural norms; certain ways of thinking about the world and particular ways doing things. Paul in… Continue reading How should Christians engage with culture?
Dangers reformed churches face
We, reformed Christians, often pride ourselves in our ecclesiology – our theology of church. We believe we have sound teaching, sound practise, sound (biblical) songs, sound church order, sound church discipline, a sound record of caring for those in our church and we may even be officially using the ESV (the Extremely Sound Version!). Many… Continue reading Dangers reformed churches face
When does the Bible permit divorce?
No-one ever marries intending to get divorced, but divorce is a reality – also in the church. Divorce can be for biblically permitted reasons or non-biblical reasons. In my experience we are tempted to make two common mistakes in the church when dealing with divorce: