Hermeneutics: The Pattern Concept

The Bible is God’s inspired word of truth and the authoritative source for the church’s faith and practice. But recognizing that this is what many denominations believed, my teachers added a caveat: The church must rightly divide the word of truth. That meant the Old Testament was for the Jews and the [...]

Hermeneutics: Interpretation and Our Defining Traditions

I and some other preteens and young teenagers of the Hixson Church of Christ were baptized in the same year. The leadership of the church responded to our need as young Christians with a new converts’ class. Brother Bob Ray, a favorite teacher of the youth because of his positive nature and ability [...]

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, IX

THE ANCIENT PATHS
The great revival call of the restoration movement is the words of the Lord in Jeremiah 6:16 [ESV]: “Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it.” [...]

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 [...]