Monthly Newsletter
A WORD FROM THE PREACHER
May 2012
This month, we conclude the article for the newsletter by Bob Ponchot. It is entitled “Restoring the Church of the New Testament.” Here is part two.
The church, built by Jesus, must have the New Testament Scriptures as its only rule of faith and the practice of that faith. “The Bible alone is the Bible alone,” said Alexander Campbell. While on earth, Jesus would select men whom He would authorize to speak and write for Him. That writing would be our New Testament.
Paul wrote in Ephesians 2:19-20, “Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God’s people and members of God’s household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the chief cornerstone.”
What a plan! God, through the Holy Spirit, would empower certain men and entrust them with the knowledge of God, so that we might know what we need to do in order to be saved and how to put His church in its proper order. Only by following this Divine plan, authorized by Christ Himself, would men be able to restore the church that Christ built. Only as we go back before the Protestant Reformation, back before Roman Catholicism, back before the creed books of men, will we be able to restore that church that Jesus established. I want to be a member of the church that Jesus established with His own blood. He gave us knowledge of that church through the power of the Holy Spirit working in the lives of the apostles and prophets of the first century. Let’s restore that church.
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