Love in 1 John

Those who love their fellow believers live in the light (2:10)

Those who do not love their brothers and sisters are not children of God, but of the devil (3:10-11)

We know that we have passed from death to life because we love each other (3:14)

We know what love is because Jesus laid down his life for us and we ought to do the same for others (3:16)

God's command is this: believe in Jesus and love one another (3:23)

Let us love one another, because love comes from God (4:7)

God showed his love to us by sending his Son that we might live through him (4:9)

This is love: not that we loved God, but he loved us and sent Christ to absorb God's wrath on our behalf (4:10)

Since God so loved us in the cross, we also ought to love one another (4:11)

If we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us (4:12)

We love because we have first been loved (4:19)

If we say we love God, yet hate our brothers and sisters, we are liars (4:20)

Those who love God must love one another (4:21)

The Day has Come & is Coming

"Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: 'The LORD is our righteousness.''

Jeremiah 23:5-6

Church & Israel

Seems pretty clear to me:

Those who have faith in Christ are the children of Abraham (i.e. Israel) (Gal 3.7)

If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed (Gal 3.29)

The present Jerusalem is in slavery, but the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother (Gal 4.26)

Like Isaac, we (believers) are children of promise (Gal 4.28)

We are not children of the slave woman - Hagar who represents Sinai, but of the free woman (Gal 4.31)

Those who walk in line with the rule that circumcision or uncircumcisioin means nothing but the new creation means everything (i.e. Christians) are the Israel of God (Gal 6.15-16)

A Jew is one inwardly, not outwardly and circumcision is of the heart, by the Spirit, not the letter (Rom 2.28-29)

We (Christians) are the circumcision (i.e. Israel), who serve God by the Spirit, who glory in Christ Jesus, and put no confidence in the flesh (Phil 3.2-3)

Why I Believe in Jesus

Here is an article I wrote in this month's Sound of Grace. Other stuff is linked under "Writings" on the right.

Multi-Site Churches and Preaching Personalities

Michael Mckinley has some interesting thoughts on the logic of multi-site campuses:

"Multi-site churches generally operate on the premise that the preacher in question has a gift that must be made available to as many people as possible. The thinking is something like, "We need to be a good steward of ______'s gifts by piping his sermons into different locations". I realize this isn't the only motivation for multi-site churches, but it's usually up there at or near the top.
If that's the case, shouldn't we also start churches that use recording of old, great, dead preachers? Shouldn't we start a church with audio recordings of Lloyd-Jones sermons?
Shouldn't we encourage great living preachers to record thousands of sermons on video so that they can continue to pastor the church centuries after their death?
Shouldn't we plant a multi-site church that employs someone to read great sermons by Jonathan Edwards or Augustine?"

Is this logic flawed?

Josiah @ 26 Weeks