In The Flesh Rather Than

There Needs To Be An Order Of Office, But In Every Single Office That Is Presented In The Scriptures There Is The Personal Emphasis Within That Legal Concept. In The Church The Elder Is An Office-bearer. But Both The Preaching Elders And The Ruling Elders Are "ministers," And The Word "minister" Is A Personal Relationship, It Does Not Speak Of Dominance. There Is To Be Order In The Church, But The Preaching Elder Or The Ruling Elder Is To Be A Minister, With A Loving Personal Relationship With Those Who Are Before Him, Even When They Are Wrong And Need Admonition.

No Totalitarian Authority Nor Authoritarian State Can Tolerate Those Who Have An Absolute By Which To Judge That State And Its Actions. The Christians Had That Absolute In God's Revelation.

But The Dignity Of Human Life Is Unbreakably Linked To The Existence Of The Personal-infinite God. It Is Because There Is A Personal-infinite God Who Has Made Men And Women In His Own Image That They Have A Unique Dignity Of Life As Human Beings. Human Life Then Is Filled With Dignity, And The State And Humanistically Oriented Law Have No Right And No Authority To Take Human Life Arbitrarily In The Way It Is Being Taken.

...when I Accept Christ As My Savior... I Am Immediately In A New And Living Relationship With Each Of The Three Persons Of The Trinity.

God's Word Will Never Pass Away, But Looking Back To The Old Testament And Since The Time Of Christ, With Tears We Must Say That Because Of Lack Of Fortitude And Faithfulness On The Part Of God's People, God's Word Has Many Times Been Allowed To Be Bent, To Conform To The Surrounding, Passing, Changing Culture Of That Moment Rather Than To Stand As The Inerrant Word Of God Judging The Form Of The World Spirit And The Surrounding Culture Of That Moment. In The Name Of The Lord Jesus Christ, May Our Children And Grandchildren Not Say That Such Can Be Said About Us.