Ons geloofgesprek: Opgestaan, Ferdie Mulder, resensie nr 7
Daar word op die oomblik in die kerk meer gepraat oor self-ontplooiing as oor self-opoffering.-Anon.......As ‘n kerk haar woorde begin devalueer, dan word die kerk ‘n ramp vir die volk. - K Schilder 9/09/2011
Opgestaan, Ferdie Mulder, resensie nr 7
Myns insiens Ds le Cornu se mees relevante resensie van dié boek, lees hier: http://proregno.wordpress.com/2011/09/08/boekbespreking-opgestaan-deel-7-die-social-gospel-en-911/#comment-466
Belofte vir uitkoms...
"…en wanneer my volk, oor wie my Naam uitgeroep is, hulle verootmoedig en bid en my aangesig soek en hulle bekeer van hul verkeerde weë, dan sal Ék uit die hemel hoor en hulle sonde vergewe en hulle land genees." (2 Kronieke 7:14).
Knowing our own sin
“When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less. A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right. This is common sense, really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly: while you are making them you cannot see them. You can understand the nature of drunkenness when you are sober, not when you are drunk. Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.” — C.S Lewis Mere Christianity
If you don't know it yet...
Ware en valse evangelisasie
Evangelisasie wat vriendelike parallelle trek tussen die weë van God en die weë van die mens, is troueloos teenoor die Bybel en wreed teenoor die hoorders daarvan. Geloof in Christus is nie parallel met die wêreld nie, dit kruis daardeur. Deur tot Christus te kom, bring ons nie ons ou lewe na ’n hoër vlak nie; ons laat dit by die kruis lê. Die koringkorrel moet in die grond val en sterf. Ons wat die evangelie verkondig moet nie aan onsself dink as skakelbeamptes wat gestuur is om welwillendheid tussen Christus en die wêreld te bewerkstellig nie. Ons moet ons nie verbeel dat ons aangestel is om Christus vir die handel, die pers en die wêreld van sport en moderne onderwys aanvaarbaar te maak nie. Ons is nie diplomate nie, ons is profete; en ons boodskap is nie ’n kompromie nie, maar ’n ultimatum. – A. W. Tozer .
Indien evolusie regtig die wêreld gemaak het,sou ons dit (uit bewondering en ontsag) moes aanbid het ... maar is dit nie presies wat die ateïs-evolusionis vandag besig is om te doen nie? Die ateïs-evolusionis probeer om Godsdiens en God ('bygeloof' , soos hy/sy dit stel) uit die samelewing te verwyder, maar in die plek daarvan aanbid hy/sy 'nander god ... die koddige god van lukrake, breinlose en almagtige toeval, want hy sê: “Die Natuur het homself gemaak!” -Anon .
In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute: We must stress that the basis for our faith is neither experience nor emotion but the truth as God has given it in verbalized, prepositional form in the Scripture and which we first of all apprehend with our minds.- Francis Schaeffer*********************** Peace, peace...
“They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace” (v. 14). - Jeremiah 6:1–15 Conflict is something that most people, when given the opportunity, try to avoid. Peace is so desirable that significant differences between individuals and groups are often ignored, and unity is sought under the lowest common denominator. When peace is sought under these auspices, it can be easy to ignore the importance of truth altogether. The modern heirs of nineteenth-century Christian liberalism reveal such tendencies. In the drive to live peaceably with other professing believers and even other non-Christian religions, liberalism has tended to redefine Christianity as “the universal fatherhood of God and the universal brotherhood of man,” or some other innocuous definition. Ironically, liberals tend to tolerate any kind of belief system unless it happens to represent orthodox, biblical faith.-R.C. Sproul************************* ...
"Here’s the difference between us. We’re using missile defence to protect our civilians, and the Palestinians use their civilians to protect their missiles.” -Benjamin Netanyahu
Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and most remarkable race which has appeared in the world. — Winston S. Churchill
'n Soentjie vir pa...
Wat is 'n Pa? (deur die oë van 'n kind)
Pa's hou baie van teevee kyk op Saterdag. Pa's wil slaap op Sondae. Pa's maak braaivlys vir kos en is sterk en sê hille is die baas. Pa's het visstokke, grawe en baie anner goet in die graatsh en hille vee nie uit en stof af nie. Pa's lees as hille kamer verlaat. Pa's hou van tannies wat nie gelt het vir kleere nie en wat net kostjums dra. Pa's gee hart pak as ma so sê. Pa's gaan op vikansie en vat ma's en kinners altyt saam. Hille krap hille gesigte skoon want dit wort vol hare as hule slaap. Pa's werk altyt as kinners iets wil doen, en het baie werk vir kinners. Ma's het ook baie werk vir pa's. Pa's is kwaai maar hille is bang vir ma's................................
See the Conquerer Mounts in Triumph
Excerpts from poem by Christopher WordsworthSee, the Conqueror mounts in triumph; see the King in royal state, Riding on the clouds, His chariot, to His heavenly palace gate. Hark! the choirs of angel voices joyful alleluias sing, And the portals high are lifted to receive their heavenly King. Who is this that comes in glory, with the trump of jubilee? Lord of battles, God of armies, He has gained the victory. He Who on the cross did suffer, He Who from the grave arose, He has vanquished sin and Satan, He by death has spoiled His foes. While He lifts His hands in blessing, He is parted from His friends While their eager eyes behold Him, He upon the clouds ascends; He Who walked with God and pleased Him, preaching truth and doom to come, He, our Enoch, is translated to His everlasting home....
"Hulde aan die moeder Haar verantwoordelikheid is onberekenbaar groot, deur haar liggaam is sy die enigste poort - vir die skep van nuwe lewe en die volgende geslag, in samewerking met die Skepper wat die gawe in haar vermag! Vandag bring ons hulde, eer en lof aan haar, wat met soveel sorg haar kinders baar - soos Maria, die moeder van God se Seun, wat deur Hom, na God die Vader, vrye toegang verleen! Die vestiging van opvoeding word aan haar opgedra, onbaatsugtig, ondersteunend - sonder om te kla! Haar taak word deur liefde gemotiveer, kyk maar hoe haar geliefdes presteer! Haar man noem haar gelukkig, want hy weet dit is die Skepper wat alles deur haar verrig! Vir haar vandag die mooiste kompliment - ′n Ruiker blomme aan die voete van ons Moedermonument!-Anoniem
That God predestines, and yet that man is responsible, are two facts that few can see clearly. They are believed to be inconsistent and contradictory to each other. If, then, I find taught in one part of the Bible that everything is fore-ordained, that is true; and if I find, in another Scripture, that man is responsible for all his actions, that is true; and it is only my folly that leads me to imagine that these two truths can ever contradict each other.-A quotation from Charles Spurgeon's sermon no. 207 / Sovereign Grace and Man's Responsibility
There is but one kind of knowledge concerning either the Bible or God which is valuable, and that is the truth revealed to our spirit by God's Spirit. God does not explain Himself via man's reasoning; never does man come to known God through rationalization. Wise Men
"Tweeting is to preaching what the book of Proverbs is to the book of Romans."-John Piper
"Some Christians became excited about the big bang theory, thinking that it favored Christianity. But they really missed the point -- either the point of Scripture or the big bang theory or both. The simple fact is that what is given in Genesis 1:1 has no relationship to the big bang theory -- because from the scriptural viewpoint, the primal creation goes back beyond the basic material or energy. Even if one accepts the big bang theory, Genesis 1:1 would then go beyond it by saying that God created out of nothing the primal stuff present at the big bang. We have a new thing created by God out of nothing by fiat, and this is the distinction."(Francis A. Schaeffer, Genesis In Time and Space.)-------------------"If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents - the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else's. But if their thoughts - i.e. of materialism and astronomy - are merely accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true? I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents. It's like expecting that the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milk jug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset."-C.S. Lewis
In alles word ons verdruk, maar ons is nie terneergedruk nie; ons is oor raad verleë, maar nie radeloos nie; ons word vervolg, maar nie deur God verlaat nie, op die grond neergegooi, maar nie vernietig nie.– 2 Kor. 4:8-9 Christian love is not universal
Yes, the Lord said for us to love our enemies and to pray for those who despite fully use us. That, by the grace of God, I can and will do. If a man abuses me, slanders me and does me harm, I can love him, forgive him, pray for him, and seek the best for him.But our Lord never commanded us to love His enemies, and that is something I cannot do.
Elijah held the prophets of Baal in comtempt. The Apostle Paul pronounced a curse of irreversible woe and eternal damnation upon any who came preaching another gospel. John the Beloved forbids us to receive into our homes those who deny the doctrine of Christ, telling us neither to feed them nor wish them well. David hated those who hated his God. And I find that same passion in my heart for the false prophets of our day.
- Excerpt from Christian love is not universal by Don Fortner
“I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the law. The law is the needle, and you cannot draw the silken thread of the gospel through a man's heart unless you first send the needle of the law to make way for it. If men do not understand the law, they will not feel that they are sinners. And if they are not consciously sinners, they will never value the sin offering.”
It’s time we start being brutally honest about the missional movement that has emerged in the last 10-15 years: Chances are better than not it’s going to fail.
There is a reason so many movements in the Western church have failed in the past century: They are a car without an engine. A missional church or a missional community or a missional small group is the new car that everyone is talking about right now, but no matter how beautiful or shiny the vehicle, without an engine, it won’t go anywhere.
So what is the engine of the church? Discipleship. I’ve said it many times: If you make disciples, you will always get the church. But if you try to build the church, you will rarely get disciples.
If you make disciples like Jesus made them, you’ll see people come to faith who didn’t know Him. If you disciple people well, you will always get the missional thing. Always.
The truth about discipleship is that it’s never hip and it’s never in style…it’s the call to come and die; a “long obedience in the same direction.” While the “missional” conversation is imbued with the energy and vitality that comes with kingdom work, it seems to be missing some of the hallmark reality that those of us who have lived it over time have come to expect: Mission is messy. It’s humbling. There’s often no glory in it. It’s for the long haul. And it’s completely unsustainable without discipleship.
- Excerpts from Why the Missional Church Will Fail by Mike Breen
The old saying, "God is Dead", is gone; the new theme is "everyone is God... Everyone!.This is the essential belief: All is one, one is God, you are one... that's right, you are God!... You are God!, even if you don't know how to make birds, nor stars, nor the eyes of an insect, nor even a simple leave of a tree... But you are God!... you shape your own destiny, you are capable of overcoming all problems; it is the ultimate philosophy of the "Me Generation"... since the God in you makes all decisions, then whatever you decide is right!... there is no objective truth.
The New Age umbrella include all religious systems except Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
The New Age rage is intended to become a "new world order" in which all becomes one: No national boundaries, just one world community in government, religion, economy... all is yours!... and you belong to all!... the world is passing from an old age of materialism into a time of new spirituality...
This "utopia" is the greatest menace to Christianity, more than any other cult... New age has been catalogued as the AIDS of all heresies.
Excerpt from World Religions
Dr Francis Schaeffer
"Clearly, if a Christian is to be true to his convictions in the modern world, it is impossible to avoid controversy, and Schaeffer never did. “If we use the word love as an excuse for avoiding confrontation when it is necessary,” he said, “then we have denied the holiness of God and failed to be truthful to him and his true character. In reality we have denied God himself.”1 Schaeffer would never accept “unity” if the price for it was accommodation to the liberal or secular agenda."
Read more: http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=03-03-023-f#ixzz2UtUi3BZ0
'n Mens kan die Heilige Skrif nie soos 'n tydskrif lees nie. Dit kan met `n goudmyn vergelyk word: 'n Mens moet moeisaam deur sy skagte na benede gaan om die goud-are te vind.
Ons Geloofgesprek Belydenisformulier
1. Jy mag nie laster nie
2. Ook geen vuil- of vloektaal in jou mond neem nie
3. Jy mag geen persoonlike aanvalle teen jou naaste loots nie, of hom of haar op enige wyse te nakom nie
4. Jy mag geen haatspraak uiter teen dié wat anders as jy lyk of dink nie
5. Jy mag nie jou naaste onnodiglik frustreer nie, so hou asb by 'n draad se onderwerp of begin liefs 'n nuwe een
Overgesetzynde, gedra jou soos wat jy wil hê ander hulle moet gedra - dan sal almal lank en gelukkig saam hier kuier