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Ian Johnson
June 14, 2020
Christianity lost its true influence in the world when it pursued the power it could gain as a mass movement, stopped loving, and started fighting. One of the overlooked consequences of this was the rise of Islam.
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Church purpose versus church growth, Divisions in the Church, Heresy, Islam and Christianity, Islam as a Consequence, Leaving Our First Love, Our Oneness in Christ book revision, Peril of Seeking Numbers, Peril of Seeking Power, Religious violence and persecution, Wars as consequences, What Islam borrowed from Christianity
Arabia, Arian, Christ, Christian, Christian history, Christianity, Church History, Coptic, enmity, hate, heresy, heretics, Islam, Jesus, Love, Montanist, Muhammad, Nestorian, Persian church, Quran, Quran 5:14, Trinity, Unity
Ian Johnson
June 13, 2020
The early church were mostly outcasts, who understood the cost of discipleship and shunned fame, power and wealth as measures of their success. But we have embraced all of those things, and lost our witness and the core of our life in Christ as a result.
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Church purpose versus church growth, Our Oneness in Christ book revision, Peril of Seeking Numbers, Peril of Seeking Power, Peril of Seeking Respectability
Christianity, conformity, cost, cost of discipleship, crowds, gospel, Jacques Ellul, mass movement, numbers, popular, popularity, power, safety, seduction, self-denial, success, wealth
Ian Johnson
June 1, 2020
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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Heresy, Our Oneness in Christ book revision, Peril of Seeking Power, Peril of Seeking Respectability, Social control and statecraft, To be in his image, Trinity, Unity
Christian theology, Christianity, complex unity, complexity, Divine Simplicity, God, gospel, mindful consciousness, Neoplatonism, Nous, Platonism, Three in One, Trinity, Unity
Ian Johnson
May 3, 2020
This post will draw no conclusions, but will simply briefly raise a question: is the Church acting in oneness one of the conditions that must be met before the Lord returns? This question arises from two independent lines of scriptures. First, in Matthew 24:14 (NASB), Jesus stated that “this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole…
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Purpose of the Church, To live in unity, To see God's glory
apocalypse, Christian unity, Christianity, glory of God, gospel, Jesus, kingdom, kingdom of God, Kingdom of Heaven, Kingdom of the heavens, Love, oneness, Second Coming, To live in unity, Unity, world
Ian Johnson
April 12, 2020
In this blog, I will be seeking comments on material I have written about a cluster of subjects that that involve generally the meaning of Jesus’ statement that the kingdom of the heavens is at hand. (Matthew 4:7 and 10:7). This cluster of subjects arises from my past writings and my recent reading and thought. It includes the practical aspects…
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Eternity Present, God was never our enemy, His Friends, Personal Background, Purpose of the Church
Biography, Christianity, Dallas Willard, History, Ian B Johnson, Kingdom of Heaven, Kingdom of the heavens, Theology, Unity
