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Learn and CorrectingLearning consists of at least two main parts: learning new things and correcting wrong concepts. I’ve just written an article that corrects a view I once held. Hopefully, this explanation of my own correction can be helpful to others. Here are the first two paragraphs. You can read the rest of it on my website (link provided below).The Crucified Jesus – Forsaken by God?Preachers have long taken Jesus’ words on the cross, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”, to be very literal in meaning. They confidently affirm that as Jesus bore the sins of mankind, he was for the first and only time separated from God the Father (and assumedly the Holy Spirit as well). Since God cannot tolerate sin, he supposedly was forced to turn his back on Jesus in a unique moment of complete separation. While this makes for a strong emotional appeal, it begs the question, “Is it true?” The answer would have to include another question regarding the nature of God. If there were three gods, separation would be possible, but since there is only one God of three persons, the Trinity, how could God be separated from himself? Admittedly the trinitarian nature of God is far beyond human comprehension, but so should the idea of God being separated from himself. Let’s leave tritheism to paganism and its pantheons.
The Crucified Jesus — Forsaken by God? | Gordon Ferguson
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The Crucified Jesus — Forsaken by God? Preachers have long taken Jesus’ words on the cross, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”, to be very literal in meaning. They confidently affirm ...
My good friend, Toney Mulhollan, owner of Illumination Publishers, (ipibooks.com) asked me to post this sales advert for my book on Paul. Toney continues to believe that this book deserves a wider reading audience than it has enjoyed thus far. Of course, I agree that it is a good book, with a very interesting back-story to its writing -- described in the Introduction. So, here is the ad Toney sent and asked me to post.
In preparation for an upcoming teaching slot for the DFW church campus ministry interns, I was looking for a few things in my 2012 book, "Dynamic Leadership." I haven't promoted the book or even mentioned it very often in recent years, although I was invited to speak on the topic many times when the book was first published. When I do occasionally mention it now, many are not even aware of it, including leaders. "Golden Rule Leadership" is still spoken of much more, perhaps because it was seen as radical for its day and controversial. "Dynamic Leadership" is a far more in-depth book. Wyndham Shaw, with whom I co-authored GRL, wrote the Foreword to DL. He told me at the time that he believed it was the most important book I had ever written. Ron Brumley, who was then serving as an elder in Seattle, said he would never recommend a second book on leadership to anyone until they had first read DM. Pretty high commendations from pretty outstanding leaders (now both deceased).Although everything in the book might not be of interest to you, the overall leadership principles in the book should make it, as Wyndham said in the Foreword, "a must read for every evangelist, elder, teacher, deacon, board member and small group leader in our churches today!" The section on “The Military Model” would help you understand why the negative approaches to ministry leadership occurred in our earlier church history and hopefully help you recognize and soundly reject them now. They have not disappeared. In looking back through it, I wish everyone had, and newer leaders would still, see it as "must" reading. It has been translated into Spanish as well. I promise it would be worth your time reading it.
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Principles, Roles and Relationships for a Life-Changing Church This book will help you learn the biblical concepts of leadership and how to implement them to produce a life-changing church. The book i...