Imperishable Inheritance

“[E]ach local church is not seen pri­mar­ily as one mem­ber par­al­lel to a lot of other mem­ber churches, together con­sti­tut­ing one body, one church; nor is each local church seen as the body of Christ par­al­lel to other earthly churches that are also the body of Christ–as if Christ had many bod­ies. Rather, each church is the full man­i­fes­ta­tion in space and time of the one, true, heav­enly, escha­to­log­i­cal, new covenant church. Local churches should see them­selves as out­crop­pings (read more...)

In my recent arti­cle con­trast­ing Dis­pen­sa­tion­al­ism (DP) and Covenant The­ol­ogy (CT), I attempted to pro­vide a look at both sys­tems from an unbi­ased per­spec­tive. Obvi­ously, it’s dif­fi­cult when you feel strongly towards either side. There was a point that I didn’t hit that I should have (Amanda reminded me). It has to with how CT views the rela­tion of Israel and the church. Many DP like to build an argu­ment against CT by stat­ing that CT states across the board that the Church has (read more...)

I keep get­ting asked by more and more by friends to explain Dis­pen­sa­tion­al­ism and Covenant The­ol­ogy (here­after DP and CT respec­tively). The dif­fer­ences are nuanced even within their own camps so I can’t pos­si­bly explain all the nuances in this short arti­cle, but I want to offer a sim­ple intro­duc­tion to the con­cepts at hand. Under­stand that I can’t pos­si­bly due jus­tice to the issue so please don’t stop your inves­ti­ga­tion with this arti­cle. I did link to some com­par­a­tive charts to (read more...)