Dr John King on Mar 9th 2010 Uncategorized
Our view of scripture and our view through scripture form the basis of our personal theology
And it is our personal theology that flavors our worship, our prayer, our preaching and our daily life
If you listen, you will learn what a person believes and what they love by what they say.
There is a world of difference between a literal, doctrinal, authoritative use of the Bible and an illustrative, moral use of the Bible.
If you rarely hear them preach the cross, if you rarely hear them talk of sin and the need for repentance, if you rarely hear them talk of the supremacy of Christ over all others, of a Savior who shed blood for your sins and gives grace to the wicked, then they do not believe those things as being of supreme import.
If week after week they talk about a God who will not judge you, who will not hold you accountable, a God who wants to give you stuff and asks nothing in return. If they talk of a God of no standards and no expectations, then that is their view of scripture and how they live their life.
If you wait long enough then fruit will manifest according to their theology. The casual use, the academic illustration, the lifestyle generalization or the sheer indifference to the total tenor and context of scripture will become evident over time.
It is the slow cancer of faulty theology that destroys a person’s walk and effective service. It is faulty humanistic theology that has caused the decline of Christianity in the western church.
From such men run
From such relationships separate yourself
From such teachers no longer learn
From such churches leave
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Dr John King on Mar 7th 2010 Uncategorized
It is not involuntary imperfections for which I shall be judged, but unfaithfulness and willful neglect of my basic Christian duties.
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Dr John King on Feb 22nd 2010 Uncategorized
The delusion doesn’t start with “I don’t need God” or “I don’t need church”, the delusion starts with “I don’t need another, I can make it on my own”.
We were created for fellowship.
We were created for emotional, spiritual, and physical intimacy.
To say “I don’t need God, I don’t need church, all I need is my Bible” is not only ignorance, it is arrogance and faulty theology.
It is a train wreck looking to happen, a fool looking for an excuse, a cult looking for a victim.
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Dr John King on Feb 18th 2010 Uncategorized
By definition an influence is different from whatever it seeks to affect, which means that if we live as salt and light, we will be different from the world we are called to impact.
We cannot be the salt that retards moral corruption and spiritual decline if there is no difference in our actions, attitudes and associations.
Light cannot lose its essence, but it is constantly at risk of becoming obscure in a believer’s life.
No matter what our excuse, if we fail to live as spiritual lights and moral examples we exhibit unfaithfulness towards Christ and are ineffective for His cause.
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Dr John King on Feb 13th 2010 Uncategorized
Charlie Peace was a criminal. Laws of God or man curbed him not. Finally the law caught up with him, and he was condemned to death. On the fatal morning in Armley Jail, Leeds, England, he was taken on the death-walk. Before him went the prison chaplain, routinely and sleepily reading some Bible verses. The criminal touched the preacher and asked what he was reading.
“The Consolations of Religion,” was the replay.
Charlie Peace was shocked at the way he professionally read about hell. Could a man be so unmoved under the very shadow of the scaffold as to lead a fellow-human there and yet, dry-eyed, read of a pit that has no bottom into which this fellow must fall? Could this preacher believe the words that there is an eternal fire that never consumes its victims, and yet slide over the phrase with a tremor? Is a man human at all who can say with no tears, “You will be eternally dying and yet never know the relief that death brings”?
All this was too much for Charlie Peace. So he preached. Listen to his on-the-eve-of-hell sermon.
“Sir” addressing the preacher, “if I believed what you and the church of God say that you believe, even if England were covered with broken glass from coast to coast, I would walk over it, if need be, on hands and knees and think it worth while living, just to save one soul from an eternal hell like that!”
(Ravenhill, Leonard, Why Revival Tarries, Fires of Revival Publishers, Zachary, LA, 1973, p. 19)
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Dr John King on Feb 6th 2010 Uncategorized
Most Christians are not free because they have not heard the truth.
They have heard what someone thought they wanted to hear, not what they needed to hear.
Don’t tell me I am healed, if I am sick.
Tell me I am sick and I CAN BE healed in Jesus’ name.
One denies reality.
The other acknowledges the truth.
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Dr John King on Jan 31st 2010 Uncategorized
Without the Cross you only have a life reformed by teaching.
With the cross you have a life transformed by grace.
Without the Cross you have a life bound by religion.
With the Cross you have a life filled with Hope.
Without the Cross every day you live, you perish.
With the Cross every day you live, you prosper.
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Dr John King on Jan 28th 2010 Uncategorized
Expectations place demands on others.
Creativity places demands on ourself.
When we shift from a mindset of expectation to a mindset of creativity, we shift from habitual living to purposeful living.
You establish a mind for success.
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Dr John King on Jan 24th 2010 Uncategorized
I started doing my aerobatics ticket last week.
It is a skill I want to get before I get my commercial pilots license.
This is the bird I am learning in…its a blast, we did some dogfighting last week…I nearly lost my lunch!
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