Is celebrating diversity wrong?

Question: Good morning, I am a Resident Assistant at my college. Part of my job is doing programming for celebrating different cultures with programs such as Black History Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, Arab Culture Month, etc. I just recently read your statement on Black Lives Matter, and I was wondering if I would be in…

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We have a new preacher teaching unity in a diversity of beliefs

Question: Our congregation recently has a new preacher. He is related to half the church members and is well-known in the community. But he is very liberal and has admitted to me that he wants to change things at our congregation. He told me “he is about a relationship with Christ, and I am about…

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Recycled “Open Fellowship” Concerns

by Aubrey Belue Solomon truly said, “The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of…

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Is There Unity in Diversity?

by Jeffrey W. Hamilton Text: Romans 12:3-16   I.         You find the motto of the United States in many places, “e pluribus unum,” “from many, one”             A.        It describes the sentiment that people from all over the world can come, settle here, make a life for themselves, and be united with all other citizens.             B.        Or described as…

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Partial Faith Is Satan’s Victory

by Carey Scott “A major survey by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life finds that most Americans have a non-dogmatic approach to faith. A majority of those who are affiliated with a religion, for instance, do not believe their religion is the only way to salvation. And almost the same number…

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The Jesus Proposal by Rubel Shelley and John O. York

A Review by Raymond Elliott This is a new book, having been published in the spring of 2003, by Leafwood Publishers in Siloam Springs, AR. Most brethren know that Rubel Shelley is a preacher for the Woodmont Hills Church of Christ in Nashville. John O. York is “Associate Professor of Preaching and New Testament at…

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