Posts by John Mincy
THE LITERAL INTERPRETATION OF GENESIS 3 (Part 1)
John Mincy This is Part 1 ♦ Part 2 ♦ Part 3 For centuries most of Christendom believed that a historical Adam and Eve sinned in a real garden by means of the deception of a real snake. According to a recent survey, however, almost three-fourths of the members of America’s protestant churches do not…
Read MoreA. T. Pierson on the London Tabernacle
Submitted by John Mincy “This Metropolitan Tabernacle is a house of prayer most emphatically,” Dr. Pierson writes. “Here are numerous rooms, under and around the great audience-room, where for almost forty years this one servant of God has held forth the Word of Life; and in these rooms prayer is almost ceaselessly going up. When…
Read MoreThe Importance of the Marriage Covenant
John Mincy Note: this article is submitted in connection with our recent Policy Statement on Marriage and Sexual Morality. (The following is an attempt to help a missionary struggling with cultural questions about marriage.) These things are certainly complex because of man’s sinful heart and the sinful culture that he has produced. The Bible teaches…
Read MoreHolidays and Old Testament Feasts
John Mincy Israel had nine appointed festival seasons, of which only three are technically called “feasts.” The Passover (Unleavened Bread), the Feast of Weeks (Harvest, Firstfruits, Pentecost), and Tabernacles (Ingathering) are the only three designated by the Hebrew word for feast. All the males of Israel were required to go up to Jerusalem for these…
Read MoreTHE SOUND OF THE MUSIC
(DISTINGUISHING GOOD AND BAD MUSIC) by John Mincy It would be an understatement to say that music is dividing all kinds of churches in this first part of the 21stcentury. It is important for all Christians and church leaders to be informed about the fundamental issues involved. We should first ask ourselves, “What makes something…
Read MoreFundamentalists and Social Service Issues
by John Mincy This article first published in FrontLine, May/June 2007. Ever since Walter Rauschenbusch popularized the social gospel in America, Fundamentalists have been struggling with how Christians should relate to the multitude of social problems.
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