Hope Restored Mission | Mission Espoir Renaît

Gospel Churches for New Brunswick | Églises de l'Évangile pour le Nouveau-Brunswick

[Hope Restored Mission | Mission Espoir Renaît @HopeRestoredNB]

Our ministry's website is now live! Come check it out and learn more about what we're here for:

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[Ligonier Ministries @Ligonier]

What do Canadians believe about God, the Bible, and salvation?

For the first time, our State of Theology survey now reveals the beliefs shaping Canada today—revealing widespread confusion in the church.

Explore the results from the new Canada survey.

https://t.co/cXSgCM4z6R

[Jeff Jones @jeffj0nes]

En français, une étude très importante sur l’état de la théologie au Canada.

[Jeff Jones @jeffj0nes]

Our friends @Ligonier did their annual State of Theology for Canadians—and there’s a lot to be deeply worried about. Read their findings here:

https://t.co/RPGW2LCvZ1

[watervillebaptistchurch @watervilleUBC]

Happy Mothers' Day! Join us this morning at 10 AM to praise and worship God together and hear about "The Mother's Hope" from Genesis 3:15. Everyone is welcome!

[Jeff Jones @jeffj0nes]

…hear and tremble because of him for whom the earth trembled. The one who hung the earth in space, is himself hanged; the one who fixed the heavens in place, is himself impaled; the one who firmly fixed all things, is himself firmly fixed to the tree. 1/

[Alberta Reformer @AlbertaReformer]

TAKE ACTION: The legal landscape for Christian speech in Canada is shifting. With the introduction of federal legislation that could criminalize the proclamation of the Gospel as "hate speech," we must declare our commitment to preach the Gospel and the entire word of God.

As an organization committed to cultivating Christian thought and action, Alberta Reformer has joined pastors and leaders across the country in signing this statement.

What the Ottawa Statement Declares:

- The Lordship of Christ: Every human authority is accountable to the King of Kings.
- The Reality of Sin: Declaring the need for repentance is an act of love, not hate.
- The Authority of Scripture: Human governments must not restrict our fundamental responsibility to preach the Gospel. We must obey God rather than man.

This statement is a respectful and principled declaration to the Prime Minister and his Cabinet that we will not compromise on the eternal truths of God's Word.

Stand with us. Sign the statement today. 🔗⬇️

#cdnpoli #abpoli

[Hope Restored Mission | Mission Espoir Renaît @HopeRestoredNB]

How and why did God create us?

[Hope Restored Mission | Mission Espoir Renaît @HopeRestoredNB]

Comment et pourquoi Dieu nous a-t-il créés ?

[Hope Restored Mission | Mission Espoir Renaît @HopeRestoredNB]

Combien y a-t-il de personnes en Dieu ?

[Hope Restored Mission | Mission Espoir Renaît @HopeRestoredNB]

How many persons are there in God?

[Hope Restored Mission | Mission Espoir Renaît @HopeRestoredNB]

Qui est Dieu ?

[Hope Restored Mission | Mission Espoir Renaît @HopeRestoredNB]

What is God?

[Hope Restored Mission | Mission Espoir Renaît @HopeRestoredNB]

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[Owen Strachan @ostrachan]

How preachers and teachers can handle gray areas in an era when we're all tempted to be Hot-Take Artists:

1) There are many matters of the Christian life that aren't explicitly lined out in Scripture

2) On such areas (how to help boys become men, how to develop a marriage culture in a church, when to have family devotions, what movies are good to watch, whether Christians participate in cultural holidays, what modesty looks like, and much more), it is appropriate, at times, for leaders to give a warning about a gray area of concern.

3) In the case of a pastoral warning, a preacher or teacher should develop his view from Scripture, pointing his people to biblical principles, always with a view to how Christ's Lordship bears on life.

4) The preacher or teacher can thus take an opportunity to train his people in thinking well with an open Bible in their lap.

5) The focus of such loving instruction is not to force-feed Christians a given view that everyone must hold. The focus is on training Christians to think with discernment, care, and wisdom anchored in the gospel of grace (Romans 12:1-2).

6) The mature pastor thus makes the best case he can, showing love and humility in his argumentation, even as he makes clear that he leaves room for disagreement on the issue.

7) He helps his people understand his own position on this contested subject or gray area (which is a good thing!), even as he quite intentionally makes clear to the church that he is not binding peoples' consciences. Nor does he declare that it's sin to hold an alternate view.

8) A wise and mature pastor is incredibly careful about church discipline. Church discipline is only to be applied in the case of egregious sins that go against the Word and the gospel--eg, teaching or behavior that denies the gospel and rejects the counsel of the Word.

9) In the case of public schools, therefore, mature preachers and teachers will work hard to not make principled disagreement with their personal conviction a matter of discipline.

10) In all of this, a preacher or teacher is not merely showing necessary humility (for he is not Jesus, but a sinner in need of God's daily grace). He is helping his church base its identity in the gospel, not his opinions on contested matters, gray areas, and hard questions.

11) This is no easy thing. Every preacher and teacher will fail. All of us will under-speak at times; all of us will over-speak at times. Thankfully, the gospel is just as powerful for the sins we commit 30 years into our walk with Christ as the sins we first confessed on the day of our conversion. The blood of Jesus never loses its power! This is good news for all of us thoroughly fallible preachers and teachers. We must remember it, and apply it, every day we live on this earth.

12) But the wise and mature preacher and teachers LABORS to build a church that is anchored not in his extrabiblical opinions, and his overheated dogmatic pronouncements on debatable matters, but in the one true saving gospel of grace.

[Jeff Jones @jeffj0nes]

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[Jeff Jones @jeffj0nes]

We sang “In The Fullness of Time,” a newer Christmas song by Matt Boswell and Matt Papa, with the Waterville Baptist youth last night. It's become one of my new favorites; link is below, so give it a listen to the end!