I think the article on Campus Ministry supports the same ideas that McGee presented, it said in part... "The reason many college students identify primarily with a campus ministry rather than with a church is not because of any flaw in most campus ministry organizations. It is because, too often, we evangelical Christians have a deficient view of the church. We assume that it is any gathering of people who believe in Jesus and who do churchly things."
Dr. McGee said the same thing this way... "in order for a church today to be a true church it must be a biblically doctrinal church – that is, the doctrine must be that which the apostles taught. Paul gives clear instruction to the church in First and Second Timothy and Titus. Today there are many things called churches, friends, which are not a church for the very simple reason that they deny everything that the apostles believed and taught and what’s written in the Word of God. That is basic and essential."
Most of all though, he reminds us to return to the simplicity that is in the Word, to go back to the Apostle's Doctrine, Fellowship, The Breaking of Bread, and Prayer. It's a great 2 minute read that lends itself to the same ideals and principals laid out in the article on Campus Ministry and why so many students feel life in them.
I read an excellent two page article on a similar subject yesterday. The article, written by J. Vernon McGee of Thru-the-Bible Radio, laid out the qualities of a good church in the simplest of terms.
ReplyDeleteI think the article on Campus Ministry supports the same ideas that McGee presented,
it said in part...
"The reason many college students identify primarily with a campus ministry rather than with a church is not because of any flaw in most campus ministry organizations. It is because, too often, we evangelical Christians have a deficient view of the church. We assume that it is any gathering of people who believe in Jesus and who do churchly things."
Dr. McGee said the same thing this way...
"in order for a church today to be a true church it must be a biblically doctrinal church – that is, the doctrine must be that which the apostles taught. Paul gives clear instruction to the church in First and Second Timothy and Titus. Today there are many things called churches, friends, which are not a church for the very simple reason that they deny everything that the apostles believed and taught and what’s written in the Word of God. That is basic and essential."
Most of all though, he reminds us to return to the simplicity that is in the Word, to go back to the Apostle's Doctrine, Fellowship, The Breaking of Bread, and Prayer. It's a great 2 minute read that lends itself to the same ideals and principals laid out in the article on Campus Ministry and why so many students feel life in them.