Robert Picirilli’s ‘Discipleship’: The Expression of Saving Faith: A Review Essay
Discipleship is a term used quite often in the Christian community. Glance at a Christian publisher’s catalog and you’ll encounter books, small group studies, and countless other resources on the subject. Like any biblical term, we need reliable instruction to make sure we understand it. Free Will Baptists have few teachers more reliable than Dr. Robert Picirilli, long-time author, professor, and denominational leader. In Picirilli’s...
Are We Presenting the Gospel Correctly?
by J. Clint Adams Every generation of Christians must confront and contend with certain challenges. These can range from false doctrines within the Church, to unbelievers’ direct attacks on the faith, to varieties of moral decay. It is critical that we recognize these challenges, not only for the sake of our generation, but for the sake of coming generations, too. One of the great questions for the Church is whether it is presenting...
Missions and the Early Church: Christianity a Religion of Mission
July 2013 marks our “Global Evangelism Month.” In this week’s article, we’re considering missions in the early church. We’ll examine the world in which the early church found itself, and its impressive growth in just a few centuries. We’ll also consider what early church missions can teach us today, and discover that Christianity is fundamentally a religion of mission. Setting the Stage To better appreciate the early church missions...
Adoniram Judson: Pioneering Missionary to Burma
With his hair clipped to the scalp, his legs bound to a raised rod, and only his head and shoulders resting on the ground, Adoniram Judson found himself deathly ill in a Burmese prison. The year was 1824, and Judson was on the verge of losing his life at the hands of those he had gone to preach the Gospel. It had been a long, hard decade for Judson. He had labored for six grueling years among the Burmese people before seeing his first...
Clouds of Witnesses: A Review
Historian Mark Noll is typically noted for his work in American religious history. In 2011, however, he broke pattern with Clouds of Witnesses, a book about missions. Co-written with Carolyn Nystrom, they survey seventeen, lesser-known missionaries from Africa, India, Korea, and China. In exploring these missionaries, Noll and Nystrom challenge American readers’ conceptions of what missions looks like and how it’s done. Although this...
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