Quotes from Jeffrey D. Johnson

If pastors are not ready at all times to preach, they are neglecting one of their principle responsibilities. Pastors

According to 1 Corinthians 14:26-33, a worship service is not a free for all where individual Christians are free to do as they will.

Pastors are to comfort, rebuke, correct, encourage, and instruct those who are in spiritual need. In order to be effective in biblical counseling, pastors must first visit with God before they visit with others. They must receive counsel from the Scriptures before they become competent to counsel others. Counseling is to come from the overflow of a heart that has been saturated with the Word of God.

With so much disparity, is there a unified message between the two testaments? One could safely assume the central plot of the Scriptures is the gospel, but how do all of the differences between the Old and New Testaments come together to form the unified gospel message?

El separar las misiones de la iglesia es no entender la gran comisión. Las misiones son responsabilidad de la iglesia. La iglesia local envía misiones y esos misioneros deben buscar plantar iglesias locales. Es un error que los cristianos busquen ser misioneros sin primero estar sujetos a una iglesia local. Tristemente, hay muchos misioneros auto-nombrados quienes se rehúsan a someterse a la iglesia. Ellos desean el apoyo de las iglesias locales, pero no su supervisión.

Knowledge of God never needs to be instilled in people by coercion or violence, nor by logical argumentation or compelling proofs, but belongs to humans by their very nature and arises spontaneously and automatically.

We are to rejoice, but we are to "rejoice with fear" (Ps. 2:11). Therefore, to view and behave as if Christ Jesus is our "homeboy" is to treat the Holy One of Israel with contempt.

Pastors are leaders, but they are to be a part of a plurality of elders that submit to each other and are held in check by the congregation. It is not wise for any one leader, apart from Christ Jesus, to be without accountability.

Not only did the seventeenth-century Baptists understand the dual nature of Abraham's covenant; they also understood this dual nature to be the ground of the continuity and discontinuity of the rest of the divine covenants.

God calls His people to be active and faithful members of a local church. Going to church is not to be squeezed into the Christian's weekly schedule, but rather it is to be the principle activity and focal point of the Christian life. Entertainment, hobbies, work, and sometimes even family are secondary to the worship of God in the assembly of the saints. In other words, Christians are to rotate their schedules around the life of the church.

We call these self-evident truths, such as the law of fair play, axioms. An axiom is a premise or starting point that is taken for granted before acquiring any additional knowledge. Axioms are self-evident beliefs that anchor the rest our beliefs.

En Su Primera Venida, Cristo sufrió y trajo buenas nuevas al mundo. En Su Segunda Venida, Cristo traerá desgracia {o ayes} y juicio al mundo. Su Primera Venida es en paz; Su Segunda Venida es con juicio.

cuando la iglesia a sabiendas y con ese propósito va en pos de las tendencias e influencias del mundo para ayudarse a obtener la aprobación del mundo, entonces la iglesia misma se vuelve mundana.

Sufrió a manos de los malvados en Su primera aparición, pero vencerá y reinará sobre los malvados en Su segunda aparición.

William Cox declara: «Es por el éxito de la Primera Venida de nuestro Señor que los cristianos tienen una confianza tan grande mientras aguardan Su gloriosa aparición».

la idea de que un cristiano pueda operar y agradar a Dios apartado del resto del cuerpo de Cristo no solo es un concepto erróneo y orgulloso, sino una imposibilidad.

Yes, the knowledge of God is an inherent belief.[5.9] Inwardly, we all know this to be true.

El evangelio antiguo y sencillo todavía es relevante para aquellos que están pereciendo y se conecta con aquellos que son vivificados por el Espíritu y ponen su confianza en Cristo Jesús.

En el pasado, la persecución, la angustia y diversas amenazas no pudieron disuadir a los cristianos de reunirse con regularidad. A menudo, los cristianos en la antigüedad se reunían en los bosques, campos y aun en madrigueras o cuevas oscuras. No les importaba viajar muchos kilómetros en condiciones difíciles. Todo lo que sabían era que amaban al Señor y deseaban reunirse con los hermanos para adorar al Dios vivo colectivamente y disfrutar de la comunión de los santos.

Calvin was correct when he wrote, "It is quite certain that the primary promises, which contained that covenant ratified with the Israelites by God under the Old Testament, were spiritual and referred to eternal life.

Therefore, the Law of Moses was instituted to call them to repent, and the promise to Abraham was given to call them to believe the gospel.

All truth must be built on the knowledge of God, or, as we shall see, there is no ground for knowledge at all.

El método bíblico para atraer a los pecadores a Cristo y a su iglesia no se encuentra en estrategias de mercadeo superficiales, sino mostrando la verdad, pureza y unidad (1 Corintios 14:23-25, Juan 13:35, 1 Pedro 3:1).

La iglesia ha pasado de ser la asamblea de los santos que adoran a Dios en Espíritu y en verdad, a ser una reunión social de cristianos nominales, que escuchan discursos motivacionales semanales acerca de cómo mantener una actitud positiva y cómo hacer lo correcto, esto les permite experimentar su mejor vida ahora.