Exploring the Posture, Purpose, and Results of Church Ministry

By Rev. Dr. J. Patrick Bowman Exploring the posture, purpose, and results of church ministry must be centered around the One to whom the church belongs: Jesus Christ. It is only as we take a Christ-centered approach that we give heed to Jesus’ declaration in Mark 16:18 that He would build His church and the

The Cutting of the Word

I have been reading, “On Preachers,” by John Wesley. It is a treatise written to all preachers but in particular his own Methodist preachers. In speaking expressly of hindrances to the pastoral ministry, Wesley made one statement that caught my attention: “Should not compassion, should not tenderness, hinder us from giving pain? Yes, from giving

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From “Feast of Tabernacles,” Chapter 14- Tabernacles – The Feast of His Appearing, continued OURS IS A LEAPING FOUNTAIN “A well of water leaping up into everlasting life (Jn. 4:14). This is Christ’s promise to His people. We do not write for the purpose of settling any doctrinal disputes: but simply for those whose souls

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From “Feast of Tabernacles,” Chapter 14- Tabernacles – The Feast of His Appearing, continued The New Covenant has ordained that the saints of God shall grow into maturity and unto the knowledge of the Son of God, and unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ. (Eph. 4:12,13). And the Scriptures must

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From “Feast of Tabernacles,” Chapter 14- Tabernacles – The Feast of His Appearing, continued THE SCRIPTURE CANNOT BE BROKEN Any true Christian would immediately rise up in arms if one were to suggest that the Old Testament was not fulfilled, or needed not to be fulfilled, in Christ. Jesus promised so definitely: “All things must

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From “Feast of Tabernacles,” Chapter 14- Tabernacles – The Feast of His Appearing, continued RIVERS OF LIVING WATER Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert” (Isa. 43:19). We thank God for

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From “Feast of Tabernacles,” Chapter 14- Tabernacles – The Feast of His Appearing, continued …and so we read these beautiful words: “In the last day, that great day of the Feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the Scripture

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From “Feast of Tabernacles,” Chapter 14- Tabernacles – The Feast of His Appearing, continued THE LAST GREAT DAY OF THE FEAST Perhaps we should describe in some detail the order of events which transpired during the Feast of Tabernacles in the days of Christ. This was the culminating festival of the year. The Feast began,

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From “Feast of Tabernacles,” Chapter 14- Tabernacles – The Feast of His Appearing, continued Can we not see, then, how simple a matter it will be for the overcomer to administer help and comfort and deliverance to a persecuted and suffering Church? For he shall be an overcomer in the fulness of Christ’s victory over

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From “Feast of Tabernacles,” Chapter 14- Tabernacles – The Feast of His Appearing, continued The Overcomer, therefore, will live the very same life of the only begotten Son of God. When the authorities tried to take Him, they could not. He was right there in their very midst, walking about in a visible, physical, tangible,