It was a privilege to be involved as chair of the Potomac Paraguay commission just as this work was coming in for a landing. Please keep IPNA PY in your prayers!
On August 1, 2026, in Asunción, Paraguay, 18 teaching and ruling elders from Potomac Presbytery gathered at Iglesia El Renuevo for a convocation of sessions. https://t.co/kHDbUELFQs
@AndrewS76825037 And, no, you can’t infer that everyone who was baptized in that passage first believed. The text even leans away from that, unless you are committed a priori to believers-only baptism.
"And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household." (Acts 16:31)
Chrysostom: "For this, above all, wins men; that one's house also should be saved."
@AndrewS76825037 I believe his point is that God ordinarily works his grace through families. There is blessing and even salvation expected in a godly heritage, as children have a front row seat to the great works of God who promises to be a God to us, and to our children.
What Christians do with condemning thoughts, from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe:
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"You have a traitor there, Aslan," said the Witch.
Of course everyone present knew that she meant Edmund.
But Edmund had got past thinking about himself after all he'd been through and after the talk he'd had that morning.
He just went on looking at Aslan.
It didn't seem to matter what the Witch said.
IME, it’s actually harder to get folks to prioritize worship and discipleship as things families should regularly be doing TOGETHER and not things that happen on an individual basis through personal spiritual disciplines or elective participation in paraministry groups.
PCA Directory for Worship:
“Since the family, as ordained by God, is the basic institution in society, and God in the Covenant graciously deals with us, not just as individuals but also as families, it is important and desirable that families worship together.”
BCO 49-4
"Do not legalize the gospel as if part remained for you to do, or suffer, and Christ were but a half Mediator; as if you must bear part of your own sin, and make some satisfaction. Let sin break your heart, but not your hope in the gospel."
—Thomas Wilcox
A Baptist pastor and academic went through a process of reexamining his convictions and became Presbyterian. He is writing about it, and you're not gonna believe this, but the Presbyterians are pleased with his arguments and the Baptists are not.
John Newton: But, alas! my heart is a filthy, defiled heart still. It is well that he only who knows how to bear with me, knows what is within me. My comfort is comprised in this one sentence,—‘I know whom I have believed,’—I know that Jesus is mighty to save; I have seen myself lost in every view but the hope of his mercy; I have fled to him for safety; I have been preserved by him thus far; and I believe he will keep that which I have committed to him even to the end.
Jewels From John Newton (BT), Nov. 10 devotional.
“You must do good works; but beware that you do them not to deserve any good through them. For if you do so, you receive the good not as a gift of God but as a debt due to you, and make yourself God's peer, because you will take nothing of him for nothing. Therefore, 1/