Noted author and speaker Steve Brown will help ACT 3, a
mission for advancing the Christian tradition in the third millennium,
celebrate its seventeenth anniversary. This special event is open to
the public. Steve is a long-time friend of Dr. John H. Armstrong, the
president and founder of ACT 3. Steve is the featured speaker on the
nationally syndicated radio program Key Life and the author of ten
books. He also serves as a professor of preaching at Reformed
Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida.
There is
no charge to attend this event but an offering will be received. You
will also hear the story of ACT 3 and learn how this unique ecumenical
mission is seeking to meet the challenge of equipping Christians and
churches to live as faithful disciples and communities in the new
millennium.
September 5, 2008 | 7:30 p.m.
Barrows Auditorium, Billy Graham Center
Wheaton College 501 E. College
Avenue Wheaton, IL 60187
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No
doctrine, as we have already seen, is more profound than that of the
Trinity. And no doctrine is more important to the life and health of
orthodox Christian faith and practice. Luther gets it right. The
human mind cannot grasp it and the tongue cannot adequately express
it. I had a professor who once said, “If you try to figure this
doctrine out you will lose your mind, but it you deny it you will
lose your soul.” Surely this is the article of faith, the
article by which true Christians will stand or fall.
Too
much of American Christianity has been reduced to slogans about Jesus
that can be placed on bumper stickers and billboards. To some extent
this is the result of marketing the Christian faith in popular
culture. I am more concerned with the loss of the doctrine of God
which is behind this marketing. We have a doctrine of God that is
both distorted and undeveloped.
By
the early fourth century a number of the important issues surrounding
the doctrine of the Trinity came into much clearer focus. A very
popular leader by the name of Arius became a star in northern Egypt,
at one of the most important centers of early Christianity. His claim
was straightforward and clear. He believed that there was only one
eternal, invisible God. As a consequence Arius argued that Jesus
Christ, the Son of God, was begotten from God, and thus created. The
Son had a beginning before which he did not exist. In a letter to
Eusebius, Bishop of Nicomedia, Arius argued that the Son “was
fully God, only-begotten, unchangeable” while at the same time
he argued that “before he was begotten or created . . . he did
not exist.”
This
edition of the ACT 3 Weekly is different. Usually I write a
biblical or theological commentary on some aspect of the Church’s
faith, life, or mission. This week I want to tell you about ACT 3.
Who are we? What do we do and why do we do it? What are my dreams and
hopes for the future of this unique mission?
This
edition of the ACT 3 Weekly is different. Usually I write a
biblical or theological commentary on some aspect of the Church’s
faith, life, or mission. This week I want to tell you about ACT 3.
Who are we? What do we do and why do we do it? What are my dreams and
hopes for the future of this unique mission?
This
edition of the ACT 3 Weekly is different. Usually I write a
biblical or theological commentary on some aspect of the Church’s
faith, life, or mission. This week I want to tell you about ACT 3.
Who are we? What do we do and why do we do it? What are my dreams and
hopes for the future of this unique mission?
This
edition of the ACT 3 Weekly is different. Usually I write a
biblical or theological commentary on some aspect of the Church’s
faith, life, or mission. This week I want to tell you about ACT 3.
Who are we? What do we do and why do we do it? What are my dreams and
hopes for the future of this unique mission?
This
edition of the ACT 3 Weekly is different. Usually I write a
biblical or theological commentary on some aspect of the Church’s
faith, life, or mission. This week I want to tell you about ACT 3.
Who are we? What do we do and why do we do it? What are my dreams and
hopes for the future of this unique mission?
This
edition of the ACT 3 Weekly is different. Usually I write a
biblical or theological commentary on some aspect of the Church’s
faith, life, or mission. This week I want to tell you about ACT 3.
Who are we? What do we do and why do we do it? What are my dreams and
hopes for the future of this unique mission?
In
the full flush of the overwhelming joy of the resurrection of Jesus,
and the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, the earliest
Christians were profoundly constrained to come to grips with the
question: “Who is God?” A passage like 1 John 1:1–7
made it clear to them that they had seen the living and true God in
Jesus Christ. Here divine revelation (“that which was from the
beginning . . . the Word of life”) was linked with human
sensory perception (“heard, seen, looked at, touched”),
thus revealing that the apostolic witness was to a person who had two
natures, one divine and the other human.
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