By Larry Ray Hafley QUESTION: From Alabama: “The church I attend has been in existence for nearly 30 years. We don’t have elders and have never had them. This bothers me. Shouldn’t a church have elders after 30 years?” REPLY: It is not the purpose of this column to pronounce judgment on local situations. It is …
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“Woe Be to the Shepherds of Israel”
By Raymond E. Harris In Ezekiel 34, God calls the leaders of Israel to account for their contribution to the sin and ruination of His people. The shepherds of the flock of God have been negligent. Their unskillfulness, unfaithfulness, inefficiency and treachery is exposed and rebuked. The shepherds of the Master’s flocks have the great responsibility …
I Stood in the Presence of Death
By Wallace H. Little Not long ago, with another Christian, I stood at the bedside of a man dying of cancer in a hospital. He knew he had not long to live, and had accepted the fact of his soon-coming death. He was completely paralyzed and without sensation from the waist down. The loathsome disease had …
UNITY: Do We Believe in One Body?
By Roy E. Cogdill My brethren have preached through the years that “There is one body.” They still profess to preach and believe it, but a close investigation reveals that many of them no longer believe it to the point that they are willing to practice it. If we are not willing to carry out every …