As we continue our deep theological study and noble quest for insight into the radiant Truth, I think it is important to remember what J.I. Packer writes in Knowing God:
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As we continue our deep theological study and noble quest for insight into the radiant Truth, I think it is important to remember what J.I. Packer writes in Knowing God:
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“Accordingly, two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self, even to the contempt of God; the heavenly by the love of God, even to the contempt of self. The former, in a word, glories in itself, the latter in the Lord. For the one seeks glory from...
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*To more fully understand the conclusions in this post, see my introductory post on Christian unity, followed by reflections on the meaning, visibility, priority, benefits, and basis of our unity in Jesus. My modest aim here is to ramble off a few scattered, disjointed implications that flow out of my arguments about unity in previous posts. They seem to be logical inferences...
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*To see the previous post in this ongoing series, click here. Next week I will conclude this series by drawing out certain implications from what has been argued in these posts, and by offering a few practical suggestions for those passionate about pursuing “visible unity” among confessing Christians. “One is a brother to another only through Jesus Christ. I am a brother...
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*To see the previous post in this ongoing series, click here. “It is not possible to account for the contentment with the divisions of the Church except upon the basis of a loss of the conviction that the Church exists to bring all men to Christ. There is the closest possible connection between the...
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*To see the previous post in this ongoing series, click here. “Nothing can be clearer, of course, than that the conception of its unity enters fundamentally into the New Testament doctrine of the Church.” (B. B. Warfield, “True Church Unity: What It Is,” p. 299) The Priority of Christian Unity The pursuit and maintenance...
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*To see the previous post in this ongoing series, click here. “Our Lord says that He has given this glory to those who believe in Him ‘that they may be one even as we are one.’ Being children of God must mean being–in some recognizable sense–members of one family. All our...
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