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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