A Bible study without these is like a hospital without surgery or medicine, lots of talk, no healing. You may study the Bible for hours, but without the church, you are not being formed into the image of Christ as He intended.
Now at 35, ten years later, I find myself looking back with a deep gratitude of a man who has seen storms, felt failures, tasted joy, and watched promises unfold – not always quickly, not always painlessly, but always faithfully.
Is Calvinism a cult? That’s the question buzzing in the heads of many younger Christians in this generation, not because they stumbled on Calvin’s Institutes, but because someone in authority told them so.
God uses suffering to teach his children to trust him. Period. No matter what we do to avoid it, dread it, or pray it away, in the school of Christ, suffering is not an interruption of the curriculum. It is the curriculum. It is not an elective that you can avoid as long as you store up enough credits on the remaining subjects.
Here’s the good news – MacArthur did not labor in vain. The Holy Spirit, who raised up MacArthur, Sproul, and other stalwarts of the faith, delights to do it again. God doesn’t run out of faithful servants.
When it comes to the topic of submission, particularly for adult children, we often find ourselves in the middle of a tightrope act. On one side, there’s the unyielding command to honour our parents, and on the other, the undeniable reality that grown children are no longer under the same roof, nor are they under the same set of rules.
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Doug Wilson talks like a man who knows what time it is. And that alone offends the ones who are still waiting for permission to speak in public. So yes, I quote him. Because in an age where most preachers are waiting for the cultural tide to recede before they build anything meaningful, Wilson is already knee-deep in concrete with a blueprint in one hand and a trowel in the other.
Friendships fracture over footnotes. Fellowship dissolves over phrases. And suddenly, someone you shared communion with last month is now an “apostate” because they prefer a different Bible translation or dared to think that just maybe there is no such thing as a pre-tribulation rapture.
This is what covenant membership reflects. It is the visible, joyful, weighty declaration that we belong—to Christ, to one another, to the household of faith. It is a commitment not just to attend, but to invest. Not just to visit, but to build. Not just to exist, but to flourish as a people bound together by grace.
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