Just a Thought

I run into folks from time to time who would really enjoy sticking a label on my forehead as though I were a book in a library. That way someone can come around and, based on my label, know whether or not they want to check me out.

I have them say, you are Reformed, you are Charismatic, you are Armenian, you are Calvinist and on and on it goes.

Someone might say how can a man be confused as both a Calvinist and an Armenian?

Easy I am neither. I am a man who loves the New Covenant. I am a man who loves the Gospel as it is revealed in Scripture. I am a man who believes that Christ centered preaching is more than just merely throwing His name into a sermon much like putting sprinkles on an ice cream cone.

I believe in His finished work on the cross and all the glory that was released into the church once and for all when He ascended and sent forth the Holy Spirit in power to inhabit believers. I believe in an open heaven because His work is finished. there is nothing to add.

I believe faith is far more important than the attention it receives on any given Sunday. I believe that the glory of the New Covenant is not a fading glory like that of Moses, but that the word of God spoke the truth when it declared it to be an ever increasing glory in Christ.

I believe that all camps of thought have been guilty of constructing a belief based mainly on their experiences, or the lack thereof.

May the Holy Spirit breath fresh revelation and reform the modern church to walk in all that God has provided her through Jesus Christ.