Three Streams

Restoration, Revival and Reformation

Entries for September, 2008

Once Upon a time in a Blog Far, Far away…

My blogging days actually began on a thing called Yahoo 360. I was introduced to Yahoo 360 while studying at bible college, I had always fancied blogging and so the journey began. However it wasn’t long before i discovered Bebo and at that point I kissed yahoo 360 goodbye only later to discover bebo’s blog mechanism was [...]

Charles Spurgeon, Mark Driscoll and the Gospel of Christ

I recently read this Spurgeon quote on Adrian Warnock’s blog , I include it here, not because I am stuck for stuff to post and feel the need to pinch stuf from Adrian’s blog but rather because it sums up beautifully one of the core problems of contemporary evangelicalism.
“The gospel is a reasonable system, and it appeals [...]

More on the ‘health and wealth’ prosperity doctrine

The following post is largely thanks to the comment written by Full of Faith, who indicated that my arguments against the prosperity doctrines were largely down to experience and not scripture.
Yesterday’s post was a quick summary, and in order to emphasise scripture over and above personal experience I have sought to include a list [...]

What about the prosperity Gospel?

The first time I came across the stream of teaching known as the prosperity gospel, (also known as word of faith or faith movement) I was shocked and disgusted. This movement is a movement which teaches several key errors. Two of its main errors, are that 1) It is God’s will that all of His children [...]

Is your problem a gospel problem?

I was struck with the following thought recently, that almost every problem that we experience as Christians can be ultimately traced back to one fundamental issue, that is, we have a Gospel problem!
What do I mean?
If we are encountering a difficulty, if our experience is sub-Christian, if our life is falling short in a particularly area [...]


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