The agency which God has appointed for bringing about the indwelling of the word, is based upon the fact of human forgetfulness. There is a constitutional need for bringing to remembrance. Every man of reflection experiences this need. Even in human knowledge, the memory has constantly to be refreshed; how much more in the things… Read More Today’s Thought: Enduring to the end
We have, therefore, to accept it as an obligation from Christ that if we have done wrongfully to a brother, the recollection of his grievance against us should be a barrier to our approaches to God till the matter has been put right by reconciliation. There is, of course, such a thing as unjust accusation.… Read More Today’s Thought: Settling grievances
The sentiment that Christ’s righteousness alone is to be the basis of our acceptance, is one of the countless and pernicious corruptions of clerical theology. It doubtless originated in the misapplication of a certain element of apostolic truth, namely that which informs us that all are under sin, and that our salvation is not of… Read More Today’s Thought: The servants of Christ
What if we shut up the bowels of our compassion towards those who suffer? What if with plenty in our hands, we think only of our own need, and our own comfort, and our schemes are shaped and burdened only and continually with our own cares and our own interests? What if we never help… Read More Deal thy bread to the hungry
Some criticism Frank George Jannaway had at some ecclesiae their exhortations at the beginning of the 20th century It is, alas, only too true that some Sunday morning exhortations are not what they profess to be. In many such there is no real exhortation in the Apostolic sense. Real exhortation is that referred to by… Read More Exhortations
Continuing on “Those Belonging to the called ones coming together” we look how at the beginning of the previous century our brethren looked at making an ecclesia.… Read More How to Form an Ecclesia
Belgian Ecclesia Brussel - Leuven 