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Chapter 20 Section 3, The New Apostolic Reformation
In the Charismatic Churches, Dominionistic New Apostolic “apostles and prophets” are rising up and declaring that they’re going to lead the church into perfection. Like the Emergents, they also are calling for a paradigm shift, and a new “reformation” in Christianity. Their views are extreme. One of their main beliefs is that when the bride
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Chapter 16 That Which is More Excellent
As I close this section on discernment, I’m reminded of Paul’s word to the Philippians. Paul says that we are to let our love abound yet more and more, in “all knowledge and discernment” that we may prove by testing the things which differ and are “more excellent.” This section was about discerning that which
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Chapter 15 Section 2 Is it Divisive?
Much of the stigmatization against discernment comes in the name of unity. Those who do not go along with the “flow” are considered to be divisive. One of the more popular quotes is from Augustine but was picked up again by the Moravian brethren a couple of hundred years ago: “In essentials unity, in nonessentials
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Chapter 7 That Which We Heard from the Beginning
PART 2 TO GUARD Chapter 7 That Which We Heard from the Beginning 1Jn_2:28 And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. In the last section, we saw the verse telling us to “abide in Him” so that
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