Thats right. Your eyes are not deceived. The question you were proposed was , "Wanna be a Bible Scholar?" Over at Kata Ta Biblia, Pat McCullough posed this simple question like he was asking people if they wanted to be a rockstar or so reality show contestant. He has some great advice on how to go about doing such a feat. He also has a unique Anabaptist / Brethren of Christ view of things. So if you are looking to write, go further in your theological education then head over to his post, Wanna be a Bible Scholar and dive in. Oh and if you are a nerd like me check you his Curriculum Vitae.
Just read a great new post @ Mystery Solved with Messiah Jesus. This is An Apologetic Place to Defend the Truth of the Messiahship of Jesus and a ministry of Tzedakah Ministries. Both are great. It addresses the Trinity and how it had been a stumbling block in evangelism. For some reason 1 does not equal 3 to everyone. If you want to sharpen your tools in evangelism or are just wondering what this is about take a look here - Trinity … Stumblingblock or Misunderstanding?
It has been years since the main thrust of my ministry was Student Ministry. Don't get me wrong, I have always ministered to the Students of the Churches that I pastored, but I would only get to spend a fraction of the time with them that one might want to. Student Ministry was always special to me as a pastor and I never let it be a back burner kind thing, but as the Lead Pastor (I don't prefer Senior Pastor) I was responsible for a greater extent of ministry. This mean that pet projects and personal ministry tasks would have to take a back seat, but the people I ministered to could never be told to "go to the back of the bus" because they matter and are loved. I would often find a way to have a hand in the direction of the ministry or create a change to participate. Several times as the Pastor I taught Sunday School or was the assistant teacher. I would arrange events, create moments to minister, be their pastor just like I was for all members.
I also find it ironic that after over a decade in ministry I am right back where I started so to speak. Involved in Student Ministry! This journey will be fun. It will be great to see if the things that I now know because of Seminary and Pastoral experience help me in discipling the new generation! I hope you will follow the journey of ReYouth.
If physical healing is in the atonement of Christ, as the “divine healers” maintain, we would like to know how one could be saved without being healed of physical infirmities.
No one can accept the atonement by faith without being saved from sin, but we have reasonably good evidence that salvation has been obtained by some who never obtamed physical healing. Fannie Crosby and Amy Carmichael are examples of this kind. Today we sing Fannie Crosby’s songs which she gave the world in physical blindness, three thousand or more of her hymns being set to music.
It may be pointed out that Christ, while on earth, healed both body and soul, and that he did not neglect the body of the infirmed when he saved their souls. Grant all this, and then we are not bound to believe that His blessing could not have passed to the soul independent of the body’s ailments.
If Christ’s blessings could not be received into the soul apart from physical healing, where there was ailment, then physical healing has been taken out of the atonement since that time, else physical infirmities now are evidence that those who are thus beset are not saved. We can believe that the Lord still gives physical blessings without making ourselves ridiculous by teaching so-called “divine healing.”
I found this while at Kellar Library at the Baptist Missionary Association Theological Seminary while researching on Dr. Jackson. This was in their Baptist Biographies file on Dr. Jackson. Unfortunately I can not find the source of this but it appear it might be from the American Baptist a paper he edited for decades. For more information about Dr. Jackson you can visit the Wikepeida page on him that I started here.
