Doctrine is a helpful servant, but an awful master. Which is to say that: knowledge of the Biblical truth that salvation flows from a relationship with Jesus is not the same as an actual relationship with Jesus. And in the Gospel accounts, the relationship led to the knowledge, because through the relationship came the revelation …

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Thomas G. Long wrote Accompany Them With Singing – The Christian Funeral before he co-wrote The Good Funeral with Thomas Lynch. The book focuses more clearly on the funeral as Christian worship, and the way in which Christian convictions shape the form and practice of funerals as a distinctive expression of Christian worship. Coming before …

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Jesus bids his disciples to follow him. This invokes life as a journey, imparts an understanding of human nature, and provides a vision of human destiny that culminates in ultimate community. Jesus bids his disciples to follow him while living in cultures that instead are inwardly framed on the what is termed freedom and increasingly …

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