34 articles from 30 issues, 1995 to 2025 · Page 3 of 3
How does a search committee find out what a candidate really believes? William Lewis sets liberal and evangelical thought side by side, then offers interview questions on Scripture, Christ, sin and sexuality, with the answers that should raise a red flag.
Should weary evangelicals keep seeking a seat at the table, or leave? Susan Cyre argues that the church’s measure is the plumbline of Scripture, not a table of equal opinions, and calls Presbyterians to stay, to repent and to give a faithful witness.
Does the church answer to Christ, to Scripture or to its confessions? Theresa Froehlich argues that the three do not compete: Scripture is the final authority, Christ and the Spirit agree with it, and the confessions bind only as far as they agree with the Word.
Does the church obey Christ above Scripture, or through it? Paul Leggett answers the case for Amendment A, arguing that the Reformed confessions begin with Scripture and that grace never meant loosening the church’s standards for ordination.
Does the denomination’s study guide on euthanasia keep faith with Scripture? B. Holly Vautier finds that it trades the sanctity of life for cultural assumptions about dominion, quality of life and consensus, and she answers with the biblical case against assisted death.
Why can a friendly neighbor shrug at contradiction and say that truth is whatever he feels? David Henderson traces postmodernism from Nietzsche to the New Age and asks how Christians can be meaning makers, truth tellers and faith sharers.
What does the Church of Christ Uniting actually believe about Scripture? Paul Leggett reads The COCU Consensus and finds three themes: a limited authority for the Bible, personal experience raised to a standard, and an ideological agenda written into the terms of union.
Whose law do we obey when human tradition and God’s command collide? Susan Cyre’s study of Mark 7 sets the Pharisees’ hand-washing rules against the faith of a Gentile mother, with questions for groups and notes drawing on Calvin.
What happens to the Bible when every reader decides for herself what it means? Pride Carson finds that the 1995-96 Horizons study sets personal judgment above Scripture, and asks what that leaves of the Christmas confession that the Word was made flesh.
Who judges whom when the church reads the Bible? The editors set feminist claims that Scripture holds authority only where it affirms women’s experience beside the Westminster Confession and Calvin’s Institutes, which ground its authority in God alone.
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