Mission Statement

Gospel Focus

What happened 2000 years ago had brought heaven and earth together! The coming of the Son of God into this world, brought all of God’s prior revelation to fruition. Jesus the son of God, revealed to us what Moses, the Law and the Prophets were trying to tell us about God (Heb 1:1-2). This decisive event is the incarnation of the Son of God (John 1:14, 18), the words and deeds of the Son of God (John 5), the cross and resurrection of the Son of God and His imminent second return. These are summarized by one word namely, the gospel. The teachings are all centered upon this reality, the reality of the gospel! Because we are living in the period between His first appearing and His second return, we live in tension between what we are already in Christ and what we will be when he appears (1 John 3:1-3)

Historic Christianity

Biblical Christianity is not defined by its infringe truth claims, but by the center, who is Christ Jesus our Lord. The church has always been united in this sense. Jesus had prayed that we are united. His prayer has always been true to the true church. He is the central truth that united denominations and people from all walks of life. Likewise, the church has always also recognized differences, and that is why we have denominations such as: Lutherans, Anglicans, Baptists, Presbyterians, Methodists, Mennonites, Pentecostals, etc. Denominational differences are to be respected and when it is necessary to oppose such differences, I strongly advise that it is to be done in prudence, and humility (especially understanding and knowledge is in order) I also strongly advised condemning others, without understanding what the other person truly believes and especially while it is a historic Christianity, is self serving than Christ honoring. The word denomination exist because these groups believe and agree on what is central to Christianity, that is the Gospel. The church is united in this sense. We are brothers and sisters. Those who deny this central truth however,  are not called denominations, but are rightly called Cults.

Christ-Centered

Jesus is the point of every Bible story. He’s present in all its pages. The Scripture is His word before it is ours. It is all about Him. The two common pitfalls of allegory and mere-moralizing are eschewed and avoided. All of God’s promises are fulfilled in Christ (2 Cor 1:20). Our primary goal in life is to make Him the center of our existence (Phil. 1:20-21; 3:8-11). Christian exhortations, teachings, evangelism, counseling exist because he is the central truth! (Col 1:28-29) To fail to make Him the center, is to retract to legalism (a performance based Christianity) or nominal Christianity (or what Bonhoeffer calls ‘cheap grace’). I attempt to show how all scripture comes to climax on Jesus and his cross work, resulting in the outpouring of the Spirit to equip saints for worldwide mission and to transform them into the likeness of the Son.

Exegetical and Expositional

Expositional teaching is paying closer attention to the massage of the text at hand. It is trying to discover the meaning of the bible than to be clever at inventing meanings from scripture (finding things that is not there.) Bible Scholars rightly describe expositional teaching as “preaching that takes for the point of a sermon the point of a particular passage of Scripture.” This is fostering the spirit of faithfulness to scripture, to say and believe what the scripture says.This however is not a fragmented study of the text at hand. We also put together God’s revelation to us. This take me to the next.

Puts the whole bible together

The teachings on the blogsite attempts to put the whole bible together using the bible’s own preferred way of putting it all together as they climax on the person of Christ (a point made #2). This way of summarizing the bible’s teaching comes to us in the form of a story: the story of creation (Genesis), the Fall, Redemption and consummation (Revelation). You can read here a summary. The God who created everything, chose to redeem sinners who had fallen from grace through His Son’s atoning work and the Spirit’s sanctifying work. He will one day send His Son once again to consummate all.

Transformation and Mission

The teachings on the blogsite attempts to accomplish these two fold goals. The first goal is to rekindle our hearts with passion of the mission of the Son and the Spirit. Second, and simultaneously, to be transformed to the image of the son of God as we look into his glorious revelation in Christ. This is not merely to fill our minds and hearts with the knowledge of God’s self-revelation, but knowledge leading to transformation and mission.