Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in the September, 2018 issue of the Carolina Messenger. Through an editorial mistake, a section of brother Hester’s article was accidentally left out of the printed edition of that issue. The fault for that omission is mine alone, and for that I apologize to brother Hester and to… Read More The Role Of Women In The Lord’s Church — Will Hester
Over the last 28 years, we have seen a large contingent of the church that has taken an unscriptural stance on an important doctrinal question. Most would think that we would talk about instrumental music just by that statement. Although that issue is important to discuss, we are not talking about that doctrinal question at… Read More The Role of Women in the Lord’s Church — Will Hester
The teaching of Jesus that we will keep His commandments if we love Him is the most fundamental basis for Christians. However, will we still obey those very teachings if God’s Word teaches something which makes us uncomfortable? When studying Genesis 2:21-22, we find that God created man and woman in a different way. He… Read More Women: Their Role In The Church — Lucy Mitchell
Much discussion and debate erupted online among the brotherhood on December 3, 2014, after a YouTube video surfaced which showed the 4th Avenue church of Christ in Franklin, TN, hiring Lauren King, a young Christian woman from Lipscomb University, as their preaching intern and having her preach to the entire congregation on a Sunday morning.… Read More Some Guided By Feelings Over Women’s Role Controversy — Jon Mitchell, Editor (Editorial: January/February, 2015)
There are some commands in the Bible that, to quote the late Howard Winters, “that are easy to understand, but hard to apply.” One such scripture is the statement by Jesus in Matthew 19:9 where he says: “And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery;… Read More Culture and Bible Commands – Carl O. Cooper
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