Views: 3[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] Through the years I have come across brethren who believed that merely visiting with a congregation for a few weeks or months thereby made them members, with no request on…
Views: 5[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction The worldly, fashion-mad nature of humankind has changed little through the centuries. Luke provides an interesting description of the philosophers whom Paul encountered at Mars Hill in ancient Athens: “Now all…
Views: 3[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles page.] Introduction A recurring metaphor in the New Testament likens the church to a spiritual army and its members to soldiers (Phi. 2:25; 1 The. 5:8; 1 Tim. 6:12; 2 Tim. 2:3–4;…
Views: 6[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction Apostate brethren have definitely undertaken a renewed and intensified “unity” initiative with the Independent Christian Church (ICC). This effort has been growing and gaining momentum in the years immediately leading up…
Views: 7[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction One can hardly imagine any subject in religion but that men have capitulated the Biblical teaching on it.1 The mere mention of the inspiration of the Bible, the authority of Scripture,…
Views: 13[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles page.] Introduction Rampant liberalism in churches of Christ has produced rampant apostasy over the past five decades. Hundreds of congregations that were at their inception strong in the Truth have become unrecognizable…
Views: 4[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction From his earliest knowledge that God planned the church, Satan has despised the very concept of it and everything pertaining to it. His first plan of attack was to do all…
Views: 5[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles page.] Introduction A childish trait that many seem never to outgrow is the desire to have certain things “both ways” when it is not possible to do so. In all such cases,…
Views: 79[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles page.] The Gospel Journal (TGJ, henceforth) was not begun primarily to engage in direct confrontation with either periodicals or persons. However, it certainly does not contradict our published editorial aims to be…
Views: 5[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction In his helpful, but obsolete book on the history of “Christian Colleges” (1836–1949), the late M. Norvel Young astutely observed: Two fundamental dangers recognized by students of the Christian college movement…
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