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MORNING MUSING July 6, 2011 BORNE ALONG

When I was a youngster sitting in church, I remember the preachers say sometimes, “The Bible is not a TEXT book but a TEST book.  You must TEST your life by it and your church too.”  I thought this a good phrase and there are occasions when it is of vital importance for us to examine our lives, testing both our personal experience and our church life by what is revealed in the general tenor of the scriptures.  I do not mean the isolated happenings that can be found in the Bible, but the way the stream of God’s will and purpose flows unchangingly on.  His methods remain unaltered in the unfolding of His story through the centuries.  He speaks from heaven and His plan is accomplished; He spoke and it was done.  Now let us test ourselves and our churches by one of the great Bible themes encapsulated in something the Apostle Peter wrote at the end of his life.

No Well-Worn Paths

Author TERRY VIRGOPublisher NEW FRONTIERS USAISBN 0-9814803-2-9 Terry Virgo has been an influential man in the church scene…

Christ’s Heart Betrayed

Author MICHAEL A. DISCIPLEPublisher XULON PRESSISBN 1-60791-419-8 The chosen name of the author will suggest that this book…

MORNING MUSING April 20, 2011 SOME REFLECTIONS ON TABLE FELLOWSHIP

Readers from the Middle East and Asia will more easily grasp the phrase ‘table fellowship’ than those born and raised in the West.  How often, in certain countries, we make our way into the evening meetings and are asked the question,   “Have you taken your supper?” and we are expected to indicate not only that we had indeed eaten but who our hosts were!  If we answered in the negative immediately our questioner would want to take care of us!  Eating together with others in cheerful, warm convivial fellowship has profound meaning.  Communion indeed!  In many cultures the solitary meal taker is an anomaly, probably an outcast.  I well remember the occasion when, during a preaching trip in India I was invited into a home to share food.