Sublime

the biblical truth that our Lord Jesus Christ, through His divine power, “has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence” (2 Peter 1:3).

If male headship in the family provided the model for male headship in the church, then we discover profound implications here for Christian leadership. Far from aspiring to become the strong, dynamic, visionary leader to whom God uniquely speaks and then expecting the “flock” to follow relatively passively, the overseer-elder must ask what it mean

two of the great keynotes of the New Testament’s message.

faithfully presenting the gospel means first understanding the message within the context of the Bible itself and its native culture and then applying the message in a way that those in your current context can understand.

Here is the insight embedded in these verses. The only answer to one culture is another culture—not just a concept, but a counterculture. A church should offer the world such a counterculture, a living embodiment of the gospel. The culture we live in is “a pillar and buttress” for many false gospels. For instance, one of the destructive lies that i

the context in which the law of God was given, a tracing of its story throughout the whole Bible—in a word, a biblical theological, Christocentric approach to the law—underscored that like all Gaul, God’s law is “divided into three parts”—unified indeed because divinely given, and yet multidimensional in character, function, and historical reach.