Some people talk too much.  They enjoy hearing their own voice so they are always blabbing about something.  It is easy to grow weary of them.  Even God does.  “Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath” (James 1:19).  Being a “loud mouth” is not a […]

The Devil’s main objective is to get as many Christians to stumble as he can.  He does not like it when people obey the gospel, but he does not give up hope when one does.  As long as he has the opportunity to turn that new convert back to the world, he will keep on […]

Well, are you?  Do you even know what a Christian is?  Too many in the world. and even in Christ, do not know what a Christian is.  The world views almost all good people who believe in Jesus as Christians.   Many in the body of Christ view all members of the church as Christians regardless […]

There is no doubt that the religious world is in a mess.  There are literally hundreds of churches, all claiming to believe in the same Lord and follow the same Bible, yet all teaching and practicing different things.  To the world it is confusing, and it turns people away from what they call “organized religions.”  […]

In this series of articles, we have seen when and where the New Testament church began.  It started in Jerusalem on the first Pentecost after the death, burial, resurrection, and ascension of our Lord, Jesus Christ.  The time was around A.D. 30.  We have seen how one becomes a member of this church that Christ […]

In Acts the second chapter, we read of the first gospel sermon ever preached.  Being filled with the Holy Spirit, along with the other eleven apostles (Acts 2:1-15), Peter addressed the audience.  After speaking of the resurrection of Christ, he told his Jewish listeners that they were guilty of crucifying the one that God has […]

Last week we emphasized the organization of the local church. It is important to see that denominational churches do not look anything like the church we read about in the Bible. Am I being overly critical by stating this? No, I am merely stating a fact. The New Testament church, in the local sense, was […]

In our last article, we demonstrated that denominationalism is unscriptural. While denominations are made up of churches (a denomination is a church of churches), the universal church of Christ is made up of people. While denominational churches are a part of a man-made organizational structure, the universal church in the Bible has no organizational structure. […]

The New Testament church can be identified in the scriptures. One should be able to open up the New Testament and find the church which Christ built. Furthermore, all who claim allegiance to Christ should be able to compare the church to which they belong with the one in the bible and see that they […]

The church of Christ was established in the first century about 50 days after the resurrection of Christ. People were added to the church by gladly receiving the word of God and being baptized into Christ (Acts 2:41-47; Galatians 3:27). In the first decade of her existence, the church was only composed of Jews. It […]