Tag: LEADERSHIP

FAMILY: THE HUSBAND

The American family is in crisis. In the year 2,000, of the 59 million families, 56% were couples, 91% of the couples were married, 9% were unmarried, 1% were same sex, 50% were divorced, 67% were in their 2nd marriage and 74% were in their 3rd marriage. Warning: historian Edward Gibbons said the Roman Empire

BISHOPS

After the apostles died, the direction of the local church was left under the oversight of men called bishops (also known as elders, overseers, pastors, shepherds or presbyters). Each congregation was to be supervised by a plurality of such men, not by one man called “the pastor” or “the bishop.” Teachers and preachers were also

REFORM OR RESTORE?

Paul warned early Christians that after  his departure a great apostasy would   come, a falling away from the truth of the   gospel. He told them this departure from   the truth would start within the church   leadership when men would “speak  perverse things, to draw away disciples  after them” (Acts 20:29-31). He called   them “grievous wolves”

THE CHRISTIAN AGE

The Patriarchal age (4000 BC  to 1400′ BC); is sometimes called  the starlight age; the Mosaic age  (1400 BC to 33″ AD), the moonlight  age; and the Christian age (33 AD till  the end, the sunlight age) because  each period reveals increased  knowledge and revelation about God  and His will for mankind. , The, Christian

THE MOSAIC AGE

This week we shall review the  Mosaic period, 1400 BC till the death  of Christ in 33 AD. Moses received the Ten  Commandments on 2 tables of stone,  part of the law of God (the Law of  Moses) which he later wrote for Israel  in 5 books called the Pentateuch, the  first five books in