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Illegal Immigration Series

This post houses links to my posts regarding illegal immigration, civil disobedience, and American Christian responsibility in the world in which we’ve been called. Beside reading the series, you can also download the e-book.

  1. Struggling with the Issues
  2. An Immigration Thought Model
  3. Christians Immigration and the Law
  4. Reasons For Civil Disobedience
  5. Christian Rulers and Their Responsibility
  6. The Real Versus the Ideal
  7. Some Summarizing Thoughts

Theologically Necessary Posts

  1. The Importance of Personhood
  2. The Importance of Human Conscience
  3. Should Christians Vote
  4. The Use of Everything for the Gospel
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current affairs rey's a point series

The Schooling Series

I did a series of posts that dealt with home schooling and I wanted a single location to put the posts. The forth post (Who is a Person) is more about the imago dei than schooling but it, correlated.

  1. 5 Stupid Reasons to Opt-Out of Home School
  2. 5 Sometimes Wrongheaded Reasons to Home school
  3. The 10 Reasons Why We Home School
  4. Who Is A Person?
  5. What is the Purpose of Schooling
  6. My Homeschooling site (though it basically duplicates content)
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church series

The Once And Future Church

Churches (and what I mean by this is the local manifestation of the Universal Church but I’ll refer to them for now on as assemblies) have lost focus of the Gospel.No, I don’t mean that they don’t know what it is or that they’re preaching it or that they even support it: but it has become (to all these assemblies) the entrance into Salvation and that’s it. It becomes a talking point on how one assembly is Closer To It than the other or a banner which is waved: but it has been receded from being the very grounds on which the entire Church stands.

Continue reading “The Once And Future Church”
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Local Church Series

This post serves as a repository of my local church series

  1. Why is the local church is important? This post touches on most of the earlier articles in the sublist below but expands on most of them.
    1. What can we assume to know about the church?
    2. Are there any unspoken assumptions about the church?
    3. Why assume anything about the church?
    4. What is the goal of the church?
    5. What is the work of the church?
    6. What does the local church look like?
    7. What is this about the local leadership in community?
    8. Does a failing local church still count?
    9. Are there any examples of failing yet actual local churches?
    10. Interlude Discussion: So what about para-church organizations?
    11. What is Rey suggesting regarding the local church?
  2. Deacons in the local church
  3. Elders in the local church
  4. Does the local church need small (or large) groups?
  5. What does church discipline look like in the local church?
  6. How does a church function?
    1. Avoiding unnecessary division
    2. Committed to unity over against unwarranted division
    3. Aware of the pressures that create disunity

Scott’s Church Basics Guest Blogging

  1. What is the ekklesia?
  2. What does all that mean?
  3. What are we fighting?
  4. How do we fight it?
  5. What do we have?