graceTALK, July 2008
Monday, July 7th, 2008 : By Leadership Team
The Leadership Team answers your questions.
Q1 (1:50): Why are matters such as leasing\buying a building put to vote by the whole church? Specifically, what issues are to be decided by the church members? Why is it biblical?
Q2 (13:30): Hi and thank you for reading this: I recently heard Andy Stanley tell a story about how they had lost one of their pastoral staff to cancer. It was a terribly sad story. The man who lost the fight to cancer was a man of God in his early 30’s and was a father of two. Mr. Stanley said, shortly before he passed away, that the church elders gathered and anointed him with oil and prayed over him. Obviously the …
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graceTALK, December 2007
Sunday, December 30th, 2007 : By Leadership Team
The Leadership Team answers your questions.
Q1 (1:43): Why did Jesus tell Mary not to touch him because “I have not yet returned to my Father”? Does that mean he had not been in heaven? Why was it so important that Mary not touch him, but then he told the disciples later to place his hands on his wounds?
Q2 (6:05): In discussing the fact that we are all sinners and need to repent I run into the following argument that I get stumped trying to answer. In John 8:1-11, Jesus is confronted with a clear situation of sin in relation to a woman caught in adultery. Yet, Christ refused to condemn her actions as wrong. Jesus …
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