Shawn Lazar – Page 42 – Grace Evangelical Society

Você pode confiar na salvação simples?

March 9, 2021 by Shawn Lazar in Graça sem limites - Easy Grace, Eternal Security, Max Lucado, simple

“Não existe almoço grátis.” “Se é bom demais para ser verdade, provavelmente é.” “Nada é tão simples quanto parece.” Todos esses são provérbios americanos comuns que refletem nossa sabedoria coletiva sobre ofertas duvidosas. No entanto, essas também são as idéias que levam muitas pessoas a duvidar da promessa da vida eterna, porque também parece boa

Do Not Bite One Another (Galatians 5:15)

March 8, 2021 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Church, church community, church life, ecclesiology, Galatians, one another

In a classic scene from The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Inspector Clouseau walks into a German hotel and notices a small dog by the counter. “Does your dog bite?” he asks the hotelier. “No,” the old man answers. When Clouseau goes to pet the dog, it viciously attacks him and tries to chew off his

Jesus nunca deixará você

March 4, 2021 by Shawn Lazar in Graça sem limites - Políticos, salvação

Comecei a ler a autobiografia de Jack Deere, Even in Our Darkness. Sua história até agora tem sido muito sombria. Mas acho que você vai gostar de como ele passou a ter fé em Jesus. Ele diz o seguinte: “Não tenho certeza do que me motivou, mas em 18 de dezembro de 1965, às 2

Will There Be Atheists in Heaven?

March 1, 2021 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - apostasy, atheism, Eternal Rewards

Q: As I understand your premise in Grace in Focus, you believe that if a person makes a sincere profession of faith but later became an apostate that he/she is still saved. If that is true, will there be non-believers in heaven? ~D.T. A: So, to clarify—a sincere profession of faith is not enough to

Breaking Bread: The Centrality of Eating to New Testament Church Life

March 1, 2021 by Shawn Lazar in Journal Articles

Shawn Lazar Associate Editor Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society What role did eating play in the NT church? While that may not seem like a particularly interesting question, my growing conviction is that theology should emphasize what the Bible emphasizes, and there are at least eight important connections between eating and a healthy NT

The House Church in the Writings of Paul

Posted in Book Reviews

The House Church in the Writings of Paul. By Vincent Branick. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 1989, 2012). 144 pp. Paper, $20.00. Where and how did the early churches meet? In this slim volume, Vincent Branick summarizes the academic literature on house churches in Paul’s writings. Along the way, he also explains the many different

The Lord’s Supper as It Was

March 1, 2021 by Shawn Lazar in Grace in Focus Articles

By Shawn Lazar Here is the eminently readable William Barclay describing how the Lord’s Supper was originally celebrated: It is not in doubt that the Lord’s Supper began as a family meal or a meal of friends in a private house…It was like the Jewish Passover which is a family festival and at which the

Não confie em políticos

February 25, 2021 by Shawn Lazar in Graça sem limites - Confiança, Louvor, Políticos

Você já notou que o Novo Testamento mal menciona os nomes ou ações das autoridades governantes da época? Por exemplo, durante a época de Jesus, César Augusto estava liderando a República Romana em sua transformação que marcou época no Império Romano. Humanamente falando, esse foi um dos eventos mais importantes da história, e César Augusto

Wash One Another’s Feet, Part 2 (John 13:14)

February 24, 2021 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Forgiveness, one another commands

The New Testament has about 58 “one another” commands that describe what a normal Christian church life can be. It’s the kind of community I want to—need to!—experience. But what does that church life look like? The second example of these commands is to wash one another’s feet (John 13:14). In the previous post, we

Wash One Another’s Feet, Part 1 (John 13:14)

February 22, 2021 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - foot washing, one another commands

Living the normal Christian life requires living a normal church life because God designed discipleship with a strong corporate character. When I say “corporate,” I’m not talking about the business world but the fact that God created you to belong to a group. Scripture pictures that group life as a family (Gal 6:10; Rom 8:16)