Three Streams

Restoration, Revival and Reformation

Entries for September, 2008

The problem with Christian Youthwork

The following is an essay which I wrote in my first year of a Christian Youth Ministry Degree. This was back in 2003. Were I to re-write it today I would do so differently but the essence of the message would be the same. This is essay demonstrates in a very raw manner the problem [...]

A note on blog comments

I’m really encouraged by those who read the blogs and take the time to comment. Apologies if I dont get back to you or if I take some time to do so. Just now is a really busy time for me as I have just started a post graduate diploma and my wife is expecting [...]

A brief outline of Scottish church history

Introduction
“One of the main changes brought about by the Reformation was in regard to the place of the bible…Once the Bible had become an open book, people began to ask questions.” [1]

Galatians Chapter One

Introduction

Regarding the task of exegesis Gordon Fee writes ‘The key to good exegesis is the ability to ask the right questions of the text in order to get at the authors meaning’.[1] In this essay I will seek to place chapter one of Galatians in the light of the overall argument of the letter. [...]

Jurgen Moltmann and Baptist Ecclesiology

Introduction

In this essay I seek to discuss the ways in which Jurgen Moltmann’s, The Church in the Power of the Spirit, can be considered a baptist book on the church. I will first of all set out the ways in which Moltmann clearly demonstrates a baptist way of thinking and I will then [...]


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