Is Israel the Chosen People of God?

 We must not assign a special or mystical status to the modern-day secular nation of Israel. They are a people just like every other people on earth who needs to repent and turn to Christ. If judgment day were today, all who reject the Lord, Jews and Greeks, would be one in hell, delivered over to the wrath of God for rejecting Christ. And while the New Testament does allude to a national revival that will come to the people of Israel in the future (Romans 11), that revival is solely and squarely because they will one day abandon their secularism, leave their paganism and idolatry behind, and bowed the knee to King Jesus.

I share this because there is nothing covenantally or spiritually significant about modern-day Israel. Sure, they are people made in the image of God. And, politically, I do agree that they are an expedient ally in the Middle Eastern region. But, from a covenantal standpoint, they do not have God’s favor upon them in any unique sense. They are the branch that was cut off and we are the branch that the Lord’s pure grace has grafted in.

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 By KENDALL LANKFORD

What’s in a Title?

What's in a Title?

 Should titles have a different role for men and women in the church? 

O. PALMER ROBERTSON NOV 8, 2023

Current discussion in the evangelical community buzzes about titles, especially the use of church officer titles for women. Should a woman be called a “minister?” A “pastor?” An “elder?” A “deacon?” In some ecclesiastical circles these questions have little significance. But in other church communities more strongly committed to the Bible as God's infallible Word, the question of church titles for women can be vigorously debated.

During a recent church meeting, one argument seemed quite persuasive for allowing women to be called deacons, if not pastors and elders. The person framed his statement something like this.....