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Rev. Earl Jackson
 
This new article is one of the most important we have on our entire site.  It is because today, we have so many churches that do not know what real preaching is.  We have accepted all kinds of substitutes for preaching in our churches, and because of it  our churches are stunted, our gospel is powerless, and few if any miracles ever happen.  Prophecy is one of the most important miraculous gifts to the church, and churches that do not have it, should be closed, because they serve no purpose  other than as a club or party venue.  Church is about one thing, "Preaching Christ", so if that does not happen, board up the place and sell it to someone who will make a junk store out of it.  Christ cannot use a church that has no true preaching.  It is waste of time, for people to attend a church, if they can learn everything at home, and on their own.  Church is about a living encounter with Christ and the rest of His people in any given local.  If He does not show up at church, then you have no reason to go there either. CLICK HERE
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Php 1:15-18  Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will: 16  The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds: 17  But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel. 18  What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.


Christ is not always preached from the best of motives, the purest of hearts, or from a position of truth.  Someone once asked me if a sinner can get saved from the preaching of an Arminian preacher?  Needless to say that's a loaded question,  because if the answer is yes,  that implies that the Arminian gospel is not a false gospel,  and if the answer is no, it implies that nobody has ever been saved in a Methodist church, or any other kind of Arminian church.  But I have to tell you, that this passage offers a definitive answer and the answer is definitively YES!  Sinners can get saved from less than doctrinally perfect preaching.  And praise God for that.  We should rejoice in this even as Paul does. When Christ is preached even from impure motives, God can use the message to save sinners,  and Paul rejoices in that.   This is not to condone false doctrine in the least.  Certainly God wants every pulpit to be pure, and to be a bastion for truth and not error.  But the fact is,  that no pulpit is that way,  because no person who ever carried the name of Jesus on his lips, is perfect, or has a perfect understanding of all doctrines.   Should we endores or condone false doctrine,  absolutely not.  We must stand for the truth, and we must fight against errors, and this includes condemning false doctrine.  But does pure doctrine exist in any church?  No it does not.  Indeed it cannot, since all people living this side of glory are imperfect, even at their regenerated best.  So lets not be too swift to say that no Arminian can be saved.  That plainly contradicts Paul.  Anyone can be saved,  if God has chosen them to salvation, and somehow he has delivered His saving message to that person,  irregardless of the vehicle which carries the message.  We all hold God's "treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us" (2Cor. 4:7).
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I have posted a new "Apologetics" article on the "Apologetics Page".    If  this is your forte,  or if it is an area which you like to particularly study,  then you might find this article refreshingly different than anything else you have ever read or studied.  It is called:  Paul's "Foolish" Apologetics.  I'd be curious to know what some of you Theologian's  out there think?  I'm not looking for your approval or disapproval of my ideas.  I'm more interested in your opinion of Paul's techniques.  And why you think they always works?  and whether or not you use these simple principles yourself,  as the basis for your own apologetic work?  If not,  then what do you know that is better?
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