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Act 17:11
These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
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In the end times, "the Agape
of many will grow cold."
(Matthew 24:12 NKJV)
Thank you all for
praying for my Mark. Here it is a week and a
half after the surgery and he is doing so well.
In fact, today is his first day out of the
house. Truly, the “prayer of faith”
has
saved my Mark and the Lord
has
“raised him up.” (James 5:15)
Thank you all again!
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I want to share
something that has been on my heart recently.
Because there has been some “flack” over our new
book
The Kingdom, Power
and Glory,
I’ve been left wondering “where is the Love” in
all of this? (John 13:35) I agree completely
that sound doctrine is essential (1 Cor.15) and
needs to be taught precisely and thoroughly.
But, I also believe, we should have the freedom
to hold different opinions on peripheral things
without it dividing us and causing us to lose
our love for one another.
Can’t we simply
choose
to let God’s Love flow through us regardless of
our various eschatological interpretations?
Isn’t the Christian life a ministry of
reconciliation? Doesn’t 1 Corinthians 13:2
teach us that even if we have “all
knowledge”
(all Biblical truth), “but have not God’s Love,
we are nothing?”
Can we only
fellowship and love one another when we
theologically agree on everything? What does
this mean for Calvinists trying to fellowship
with Arminians or for Pentecostals
fellowshipping with Baptists or for believers in
the Church of Christ getting along with
believers in the 7th Day Adventist church? Are
these brothers and sisters unable to love each
other because of their theological differences?
Where is the
dividing line? When do we say “you’ve gone too
far in beliefs that are different from mine, I
can’t love you anymore.”
Now, I’m
not
at all saying that God’s Love is never a tough
Love, or of a necessity, a discipline kind of
Love. It is! It has to be! It’s critical that
we balance our
Agape
Love with the
wisdom of God (or the Truth), but again,
knowledge,
without God’s Love,
is just a “tinkling cymbal.”
To me, the bottom
line is: What brings glory to God? What
reflects His image? What pleases Him? And,
what does the Word tell us to do?
Loving the way God
wants us to love is
a choice.
And, it’s a choice we need to make
constantly—yielding ourselves as cleansed
vessels, not only for His Love to flow through
us, but also so that His wisdom can be made
manifest in our lives. As brothers and sisters,
we need to be “living examples” of how God would
have us reconcile these two things. And thus,
it would be an encouragement for others who are
watching us to apply the same principles in
their own personal lives (in their marriages and
in all their relationships).
Romans 12:18 tells
us to “live peaceably with all men.” I would
hope that we could be those reflections of
Christ that not only bring glory to God, but who
also show forth His Love as well as His truth in
our words and our deeds. As you well know, this
is so desperately needed in the Body of Christ
right now. Truly,
Agape
is a choice.

“By this shall all men know
that ye are My disciples, if ye have Love one to
another.” (John 13:35)
In that precious Agape,

And above all things have
fervent love for one another, for "LOVE WILL
COVER A MULTITUDE OF SINS." (1 Peter 4:8 NKJV)

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