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While I have been involved in several Bible studies for the second half of 2009, I have not even attempted to write another article for the front page of this community. But, not that we are embarking a new secular year, it seems like this would be a good time to change the words that greet folks who visit here through the front page, rather than accessing the forum directly.

Therefore, now is the time and this block is the place that is appropriate from yet another 'new beginning'.

While I think there yet remains some areas concerning the Old Testament Law (see the thread, "What is the Law of God") that need to be discussed, I think it is time to pick up with a couple of  other important tasks that have been dangling around for much of this past year.

In addition to working on  several 'promised' translations, a study on a few selected of verses, and another major study on Mathew chapters 5-7 (a long time overdue), and a whole host of troubling questions and subjects that keep challenging the disciples of Jesus Christ, I feel like I am running out of time to address all of these many different issues. So, I am into carefully selecting what I can address and what I must defer elsewhere.

 I ran across this article while surfing the Internet. I pray that it provokes you as it has me.

The Question that Changed My Life

By David Ryser

A number of years ago, I had the privilege of teaching at a school of ministry.  My students were hungry for God, and I was constantly searching for ways to challenge them to fall more in love with Jesus and to become voices for revival in the Church.  I came across a quote attributed most often to Rev. Sam Pascoe.  It is a short version of the history of Christianity, and it goes like this:  Christianity started in Palestine as a fellowship; it moved to Greece and became a philosophy; it moved to Italy and became an institution; it moved to Europe and became a culture; it came to America and became an enterprise.