Once again, I've fallen behind in posting the articles in our series, Bloggin' the 28. There are the most recent two installments.
From Nathan Brown, in Australia, comes an essay entitled, Escape or Energiser, regarding the Adventist doctrine of the Second Coming.
Rather than being tempted to self-centred escapism, the promise of the Second Coming and a recreated world must be a call to a different way of living, serving and relating to those around us. One Australian Christian leader put it this way—Jesus’ promises “fill the present with hope and this with energy. Because the future fills the present with meaning and purpose, we give ourselves to the needs of others, even to the reshaping of society. The Christian hope has vast social consequences. . . . We look back to see what the promises were; we look forward to see them fulfilled; we act now in the light of what is yet to be” (Dr Peter Jensen, The Future of Jesus).
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Then, Trevan Osborn weighs in on our newest Fundamental Belief with a post entitled, Growing in Christ. He begins...
Admit it, you have no idea what the newest fundamental belief really teaches.
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