Bold Preaching.....Is it Unloving?

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The Three Aspects of Faith

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Faith is made up of three things: knowledge, belief, and trust…Faith is believing that Christ is what He is said to be and that He will do what He has promised to do. (Spurgeon, C.H.) “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”  How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in Him whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without a preacher?. . So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ. (Romans 10:13-14, 17) When sharing the gospel publicly, and more specifically through open-air preaching you will likely be stopped from preaching by someone who claims to be a Christian.  Oftentimes when preaching in open-air, you will be preaching to a moving crowd.  Someone may walk by and hear you talking about sin and judgment.  Another may walk by and hear you talking about Christ redemptive work on the cross.  I use to think that there was the possibility that those who claimed to be Christian, who stopp
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Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death

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I know as I write this some of you are going to think that I have lost my mind, but understand that this is coming from a person who served nearly 5 years in the Army on three different continents.  Have you ever wondered if the American Revolution was such a good idea?  I never did until this past week when the American presidential primary came to my residential state of Texas.  Something about it all just doesn't seem right and these three things entered into my mind. First of all American politics are based on speaking evil against the other candidates.  Yet this behavior contradicts the entire sermon on the mount.  "In everything, therefore, treat people the same way you want them to treat you, for this is the Law and the Prophets." (Mt 7:12). Secondly I noticed that American Christians seem to be preoccupied with politics.  This preoccupation with politics is contrary to the great commission.  "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptiz
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Are You a Transformer, Translator, or Transplanter?

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I was a transplanter. By the grace of God and for His glory I am becoming a translator. I pray that I never become a transformer. Do we contemporize theology, and if so, how and to what extent? In order to explain, some defining must take place: 1. A transplanter does not think that the text of scriptures needs to be contemporized at all. The Bible should be stated as it was written.[1] 2. A transformer believes that the world has changed so much since biblical times and people with it that the message itself must be changed.[2] 3. A translator believes that the authoritative message that the Bible is speaking never changes, but since language, culture and situations have changed from biblical times the authoritative message needs to be contemporized for the modern audience’s ear.[3] Millard J. Erickson said with regards to transplanters, Taken to its logical extreme, this would mean that one should make no attempt to present the message at all, instead
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