Christ Expressing Christ

“For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body though many are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body – Jews or Greeks, slaves or free – and all were made to drink [...]

Reviving the Restoration Movement, X

LOOK AT THE STARS
Have you ever been far enough away from the lights of modern civilization, to see a magnificent star lit night? I’ve experienced this in the Florida Keys, Aroostook County Maine, and at Hilltop on the Havasupai Reservation in Arizona. [...]

Reviving the Restoration Movement, VIII

STARTING AFRESH
When I was a student at HUGSR (1982), I thought I had a good idea that would help restoration churches get past most of their sectarian troubles and start afresh as a positive ambassador for Christ. So I took my idea [...]

Reviving the Restoration Movement, VII

URGENCY OF REVIVAL
It is 9/11, six years later. The day of 9/10/2001 I woke up with the refrain of “Across the Universe”, a Beatles’ song in my mind. The refrain was, “Nothing’s gonna change my world”. The tune stuck in [...]

Reviving the Restoration Movement, VI

RESTORATION AT BETHANY
I think it is fair to say that the theology of the restoration movement has been church centered rather than Christ centered. It began as a Christ centered movement, but the effort expended on scrutinizing the pattern of the New Testament church caused the center to shift. There have always been [...]