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Ralph Winter (1925 – 2009)

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Perhaps the foremost missiologist in our day, Dr. Ralph Winter, went to be with the Lord last night, succumbing to a protracted battle with myeloma. In 2005, Dr. Winter was included among the top 25 most influential evangelicals in America. I first learned of Dr. Winter and his legacy when I took Perspectives on the World Christian Movement, a fantastic semester-long course for which college-level credit can generally be obtained. A former professor at Fuller Seminary and founder of the U.S. Center for World Mission (part of William Carey International University) in Pasadena, California, … [Read more...] about Ralph Winter (1925 – 2009)

The Love of God and John 3:16 – John Piper

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John Piper gives an outstanding pair of messages on John 3:16. The second message is focused on the difficulty many have reconciling the universality of God's love for sinful humanity with the clear fact that only some are in fact saved by Christ's sacrificial, atoning death on the cross. On this topic, Piper recommends (as do I) a short, helpful book by D.A. Carson entitled Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God. An excerpt from Piper's 2nd message:We may, therefore, say to every human being, “God loves you. And this is how he loves you: He gave his Son to die, so that if you would believe, … [Read more...] about The Love of God and John 3:16 – John Piper

Sixty Percent of Adult Baptisms in SBC Churches are “Rebaptisms”

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In John Hammett's book, Biblical Foundations for Baptist Churches: A Contemporary Ecclesiology, he cites a 1993 study done by the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention which revealed that "the majority of adult baptisms (60%) could be called rebaptisms. Some were baptisms of those who had previously been baptized as infants, but 36 percent of these adult baptisms were of those who had been previously baptized in Southern Baptist churches." They sought "rebaptism" because they came to be convinced that they were not regenerate at the time of their first baptism. Hammett goes … [Read more...] about Sixty Percent of Adult Baptisms in SBC Churches are “Rebaptisms”