To be in his image

About Racism

Ian Johnson June 15, 2020 4 Comments

The ultimate solution to our national racisms lies in the Church, in who we are in Christ. We are not called to uncritically support the current social order, no matter how unjust. We are called to show how social divisions are overcome by the Holy Spirit among us.

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God’s Promises for the Church Together as One

Ian Johnson June 9, 2020 5 Comments

Many of God’s promises to us are given to the Church together, collectively. They become effective for us individually only as we are living in love, as a functioning part of the Body of Christ.

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Our Oneness in the Body of Christ and the Consequences of Ignoring It

Ian Johnson June 8, 2020 2 Comments

What happens to you affects me. If we choose to work together, the Body of Christ is healthy and effective. If we choose not to recognize each other, we are still one, but the Body of Christ os diseased.

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Answers to Some Reader Questions about Prayer, Prayer Burdens and National Sins

Ian Johnson June 7, 2020 2 Comments

A reader recently asked some very perceptive questions about my views concerning prayer, prayer burdens, and prayer for national sins. Here, I am publishing my answers to those questions. (The reader also asked some personal questions, which I omit from this posting): You asked: “Also that what matters is your relationship with the Lord not what denomination someone is or…
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Humans “Male and Female” and Marriage as Pictures of God’s Unity in Diversity

Ian Johnson June 4, 2020 6 Comments

The creation of humans as male and female, marriage and reproduction are all a part of the image of God in human beings, and are all an intelligible picture of God’s unity in diversity. They also point to our unity iwith each other and God n the Church.

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The Human Being as a Picture of God’s Complex Unity

Ian Johnson June 2, 2020 4 Comments

Human beings are made in God’s image, a picture of his complex unity. Body and spirit must be united to form a soul. Each of the faculties of the soul and parts of the body together form a single, unified person.

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Unity in Diversity as an Attribute of God

Ian Johnson June 1, 2020 6 Comments

God is a complex unity–Three in One by nature–and is also one with us who believe, by adoption. He is not an absolutely simple unity, as is often taught. This false teaching comes from early efforts to make the Gospel more acceptable to the upper classes of Roman society by introducing Neoplatonist philosophy into it. But it instead destroys the Gospel by making God incapable of having any real unity with his children.

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Memorial Day: The Case for Mourning

Ian Johnson May 25, 2020 4 Comments

There are those who say that a good Christian should always rejoice because of anything that happens, and must never grieve. These people are wrong. Our instructions are to grieve physical death, and to grieve the sinful condition of our world that leads to it, as God himself does, but to do so in a way that expresses our hope in the resurrection. Do not deny grief, but show hope in grief. Groaning is not a sin.

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No Merit — The Golden Key to Freedom in Christ

Ian Johnson May 1, 2020 10 Comments

He has shown us the way into a new life, a life beyond death, a life that is at peace with God. We must receive his life and follow him, living in the Spirit as he did. That is all. No “merit” is involved. God doesn’t look at our “merit.” Jesus doesn’t save us by giving us his “merit;” he saves us by giving us himself. This is the key to freedom.

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Hearing God Speak – Conversational Prayer — One Pursuit

Ian Johnson May 1, 2020 0 Comments

This guest post from One Pursuit blog is another writer’s good account of God speaking directly to us. He also makes the very good point that we too often think of “answered prayer” only as “seeing action” in the world, not as hearing his voice.

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God’s Promises for the Church Together as One

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Our Oneness in the Body of Christ and the Consequences of Ignoring It

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Answers to Some Reader Questions about Prayer, Prayer Burdens and National Sins

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Humans “Male and Female” and Marriage as Pictures of God’s Unity in Diversity

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The Human Being as a Picture of God’s Complex Unity

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Unity in Diversity as an Attribute of God

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Memorial Day: The Case for Mourning

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No Merit — The Golden Key to Freedom in Christ

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Hearing God Speak – Conversational Prayer — One Pursuit

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