Daily Nudge: obedience — and news
Share one verse about obedience with us, urges the Daily Nudge. There are so many, and the church rightly teaches obedience for salvation, so this is a weighty subject both in Scripture and among us.
Most of us, anyway. The Tulsa workshop is going on this week, and should probably be known as the Tulsa church-bashing workshop. The event was supposed to be about soul-winning, but turned into a celebration of ecumenism in the name of unity and libertinism under the guise of grace. Obedience doesn’t figure into their language.
Like the religious world at large, many of our brethren now consider obedience a legalistic trap.
But Jesus’ word still counts that “[obeying] his commandment is eternal life” (John 12:50). That’s my verse to share today in obedience to the Daily Nudge. (If there’s time today, I’ll do more on it.)
What’s yours? Along with some news …
John Henson, and 
Weylan Deaver 2:01 pm on March 27, 2010 Permalink |
Since you mentioned Tulsa and their compromising posture, Dad has an excellent article on “When Grace Is No More Grace” in the upcoming (final) issue of “Biblical Notes Quarterly.” I got an advance peek since I have to proofread it. It decisively answers those who deny the necessity, or even possibility, of obedience. There’s also an outstanding article by Kerry Duke on “The Meaning of Adultery in Matt. 19:9,” which shows why various non-literal definition positions cannot be right, why it is wrong to say Matt. 19:9 applies only in the church, why a marriage begun as adultery cannot be continued without sin. Kerry is Dean at Tennessee Bible College and writes things worth reading.
J. Randal Matheny 2:09 pm on March 27, 2010 Permalink |
I’ll look forward to reading that, Weylan. Both articles. Again, I hate to hear that BNQ is publishing its last issue.
Weylan Deaver 2:50 pm on March 27, 2010 Permalink
But, with biblicalnotes.com, the project will live on. Amazingly, I’m pretty sure there are already more Facebook fans of the paper than there are current paid subscribers to it. So, my thought is that we’ll be far more accessible online than we have been in print.
J. Randal Matheny 2:54 pm on March 27, 2010 Permalink
Yup, that’s good. As much as I use the Internet, however, I still love to hold a book or magazine in my hands. But I gotta get rid of a lot of my paper and books, time to start downsizing, so I guess the Internet has come along at a good time.
John Henson 5:13 pm on March 27, 2010 Permalink |
Trade you some of your heat for some of the cold we’re having. It’s supposed to be spring, but it doesn’t feel like it, yet. It was in the teens this morning!
J. Randal Matheny 5:22 pm on March 27, 2010 Permalink |
You gotta deal! Looked like rain clouds were going to cover us and dump some wet stuff while bringing down the temps, but it must have gone around. “Nothing but blue skies!”