Welcome college freshmen!
Sunday Aug. 5 is the first Sunday we welcome incoming college freshmen to the College class. We are glad you're here! We want our study together weekly to be a significant part of your Christian growth throughout your college career. We want to get to know you and enjoy time with you, both serious times of study and fun times of being together doing other things.
We will be on the UL campus during freshman move-in days Wednesday-Friday, Aug. 15-17. We'll set up a table of goodies, cold water, information about our college ministry and witnessing resources to distribute to students over the three days. We need many students to be there with us to greet others and help new students move in to their dorms.
Let's do our part as a class to carry out Christ's Great Commission to us - going, making disciples, baptizing and teaching. That is our vision because it is Christ's vision for His church.
posted by Jeff Ross @ 8/03/2007 10:25:00 PM
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http://www.atruechurch.info/macstudybible.html
What do you think?
First, while anonymous posts are allowed, I am always willing to attach my name to what I write and prefer that others do the same in the interest of open and honest dialogue.
Now to answer your question...
I took the time to read much of the site mentioned in the previous post (http://www.atruechurch.info/macstudybible.html). The author's rants about John MacArthur do not concern me. Having been a Christian for about 35 years, and having been exposed to many true and false, unscriptural teachings, I can say that I have great confidence in using MacArthur's writings as supplemental information to enhance one's Bible study.
No author's writings are to ever be placed on a level with that of Scripture. The writings of any man are subject to scrutiny. I can't imagine that I would completely agree with the writings of anyone who wrote volumes and volumes of commentary on the Bible. Nor would the writer expect me to do so.
Having invested much time in recent months in MacArthur's writings, I can say that I find him to be refreshingly faithful to God's Word. I am unapologetically conservative in my theology and in my belief in the Bible as God's Holy, unchanging and perfect Word. I consider MacArthur to be in that same camp. In his personal notes at the beginning of his study Bible he writes: "I have always been committed to the Scripture as inspired, inerrant, infallible, sufficient, and eternal."
On the other hand, I am concerned when I read comments like the person on the web site blasting MacArthur when he - Darwin Fish (yes, that's his real name) - writes things like the following:
"I do not know, as of this date, any other pastor that is in the truth. Nor have I seen any in history other than those recorded in Scripture." Do you realize what he is saying in that statement? He is saying that he is honestly unaware of any other pastor now living or who has ever lived who understands the real truth except him. So we are to believe that God in all His holiness and sovereignty for 2000 years has been unable to find any pastor true to His Word until Darwin Fish came along? I don't think so.
In Fish's home page, he lists all the following people as people who are false teachers, claiming that if we view any of the following as godly men that we are not saved: Billy Graham, John MacArthur, Charles Stanley, Charles Spurgeon, Chuck Colson, C. S. Lewis, Tony Evans, Chuck Swindoll, John Piper, Ray Comfort and others. While I do consider some of the others he mentioned as being false teachers, to lump that group with the names above is ridiculous and arrogant. Run - do not walk, pass Go or collect $200 - from anyone who claims to have such a singular lock on the truth of God's Word.
We are called by God in 1 Thessalonians 5:21 to "Test everything. Hold on to the good." That includes the writing of anyone outside the Scriptures and the speaking of anyone as well.
When we seek God and study His Word with a desire to hear Him speak, He is thrilled to give us understanding. When we know the original well and hide it in our hearts that we may not sin against him (see Psalm 119:11), then we will recognize false teachings when they come along. Bible study resources such as the MacArthur Study Bible and a host of others are resources can God can use to help us understand more fully the context and meaning of the original text and the principles that God still wants us to know and follow for today. As Paul said, though, "Test everything. Hold on to the good." From my experience, the MacArthur Study Bible is very, very good.
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