Each month, the “FYI” feature in the FBC bulletin will open new doors and bring you inside the worlds of Christian history and the five FBC Core Values that challenge us to love God, love truth, love our families, love the church, and love the world. Use the links below to walk farther down the path and learn more.
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April '12- Christian History: Martin Luther (link 1) Martin Luther (link 2)
- Loving Truth: Truth – Having traveled a bit over the years with the opportunity to observe a few churches in Europe, Asia, and Africa, it was not at all surprising to see New Testament teaching, principles, and practices everywhere I visited. Truth is universal; it is applicable anywhere, at any time, and in any group of people. When I hear teaching or methods which work only in certain places and among certain people, I know I am not dealing with truth, but with a passing fad. A book which will not sell on the streets of India, but only in places like North Dallas, is a book which contains human ideas. The Bible works everywhere, any time, and among any people, because the Bible is truth. We spend too much time and money on books which do not deal enough in truth. (“The Truth of God” by Bob Deffinbaugh, http://bible.org/seriespage/truth-god).
- Loving World:
The Church is to be a model of grace and love in the world. Its transformational stance is to be one of salt and light, of involvement rather than withdrawal. The Christian call to faith, while radically countercultural, stands in contrast to two extremes: an “over-against-the-world” posture and one that blesses the present order of the world. Authentic disciples refuse to indulge in either a flight from culture or the secularizing of the church under the ruse of reaching that culture. . . The church must penetrate its culture in order to display the love of God and the saving grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. (From The Church: The Body of Christ in the World Today, by Ed Hayes).
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March '12- Christian History: Erasmus
- Loving Truth: Truth – Why does this word truth breed such animosity? Because rebellious human nature resists truth’s claims. If something is really true, it must be true not just for the person saying it but for the person hearing it. And the fact is, we don’t want to obey a higher authority from any quarter – especially what purports to be from God – for fear it will impinge upon our personal autonomy. We cling to the idea that we create our own truth.
(Charles Colson, The Faith, p. 59).
- Loving Church:
Is the church a great structure of bricks, wood, and mortar? Is “the church” a building in which worship services are held on Sundays? Is “church” an event we can attend? . . . No! None of these popular uses of the term gets at what the church actually is. . . Viewed from the biblical perspective, the church is “people.” But not just any people. The church is a special people, a people whom the Spirit is forming together into a community. (From Created for Community, by Stanley J. Grenz).
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February '12- Christian History: Johann Gutenberg
- Loving Truth: The Truth of God
- Loving Family: A Christian marriage is a spiritual union with God that is intended to be a visible expression of the relationship that God has with the Church, which is the Bride of Christ. They are so intertwined that Paul switches from one to the other in Ephesians 5:25-27. (Neil Anderson, The Christ Centered Marriage).
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January '12- Christian History: John Wycliffe
- Loving Truth: Truth – The question of truth – of a common and knowable reality that exits independently of our perception – is the great fault line of Western culture today. The dominant point of view dismisses the idea. The fastest way to provoke scorn from most university professors is to use the words reality and truth. (Charles Colson, The Faith, p. 59)
- Loving God: “Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness; the nourishment of mind with His truth; the purifying of imagination by His Beauty; the opening of the heart to His love; the surrender of will to His purpose – and all of this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable and therefore the chief remedy for that self-centeredness which is our original sin and the source of all actual sin.” (William Temple’s (1881-1944), Readings in St. John’s Gospel.)
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December '11- Christian History: Bede
- Loving Truth: Incarnation of Christ
- Loving World: How is it that Christians called to dispense the aroma of amazing grace, instead pollute the world with the noxious fumes of ungrace? If grace is so amazing, why don’t Christians show more of it? (From A State of Ungrace, by Philip Yancey).
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