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Jason L. Kortering

The Christian Wife

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What is the role of the husband and role of the wife in marriage? Based on Ephesians 5:22-24 this article answers this question.

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Evangelism in the Established Church: Practicing Personal Evangelism – How to Do It

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Every Christian has a desire to share the gospel with unbelievers. Often the challenge is how to do it. This article shares the method of evangelism. Some different methods are considered and evaluated, with the preference for the seed-planting method.

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Evangelism in the Established Church: Practicing Personal Evangelism – Seeking the Salvation of the Lost

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Every Christian has a desire to share the gospel with unbelievers. Often the challenge is how one does it. In this article the goal of evangelism is shared: we want to see the sinner’s salvation in a way that glorifies God for his work.

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Evangelism in the Established Church: Practicing Personal Evangelism – Sharing the Good News

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Every Christian has a desire to share the gospel with unbelievers. Often the challenge is how one does it. In this article the content of evangelism is shared: where to start and what to say is when personally evangelizing someone.

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Nurturing Godliness in Missions

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It is a joyful moment to see people converted to Christ through mission work. However, conversion is not the end. Those converted must be led to spiritual maturity. This article shows that such maturity is rooted in making knowledge of truth grow into conviction of the truth and a life of obedience. This is achieved by teaching godliness.

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Mission Preaching in the Established Church: The Gospel Service

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Mission preaching is bringing the message God wants an unconverted person to hear. This article explains the need for and role of a special service in the established church, for the purpose of preaching to those who are outside the kingdom.

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Cultivating Personal Prayer

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Personal prayer is one-to-one communion with God. This article explains the importance of personal prayer, and the way of cultivating it.

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Missions and Polemics – The Language to Be Used

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Polemics on the mission field may be entirely lacking today, and this article explains why this is so. It then provides biblical guidance in our language of polemics.

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Discipline and Missions

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Church discipline is not reserved for established churches alone. This article argues that it must be administered in mission churches since discipline is a mark of the true church. It discusses where it must be administered and the importance thereof.

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The Congregation’s Role in Evangelism

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Evangelism should be the work of the whole congregation. To carry out this responsibility the church must be enabled by the Holy Spirit and equipped by the office bearers.

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Kelong and Net

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When Christ called the disciples he promised that he would make them fishers of men. This article shows that this image has implications for the method of doing evangelism.

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The Profit of Our Inspired Bible

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This article shows that the Bible is God’s inspired word. This conviction is essential for the church because the Bible is the foundation to the Christian faith.

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Buying Missions

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How the church thinks about the relationship between money and doing mission work is essential in protecting the church from falling in the trap of buying missions. This article gives three scenarios in which the church can buy missions while thinking that it is doing mission work.

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Evangelism in the Established Church: The Role of Every Believer in Evangelism

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Anointed as prophet, every Christian has the calling and ability to confess Jesus’ name. This article explains that evangelism is the responsibility of every believer. The love of God experienced by the believer generates a response of love, which is the motive for evangelism. So members must be encouraged to carry out this task of witnessing.

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Mission Preaching in the Established Church: The Burden of the Messenger

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Mission preaching is bringing the message God wants an unconverted person to hear. This article explains the role of the messenger in this kind of preaching. He seeks the salvation and spiritual well-being of those to whom he preaches.

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Mission Preaching in the Established Church: The Character of the Message

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Mission preaching is bringing the message God wants an unconverted person to hear. This article explains the character of mission preaching by discussing its nature and purpose.

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Mission Outreach by Every Congregation

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Mission work is undertaken by the church as a response of faith to God and with the expectation of blessings from God. Therefore, those doing mission work should give priority to the preaching of God's word, and leave the outcome in God's hands.

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William Carey: Pioneer Missionary to India (2)

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Known as the 'father of modern missions', William Carey has in many way set the example for a heart devoted to mission work. This article looks at Carey's life and how God prepared him to be a missionary. The author also looks at his work in India and his involvement in education.

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William Carey: Pioneer Missionary to India (1)

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Known as the 'father of modern missions', William Carey has in many way set the example for a heart devoted to mission work. This article looks at Carey's life and how God prepared him to be a missionary. The author also looks at his work in India and his involvement in education.

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Stem Cells Without Embryos

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Should Christians rejoice in scientists' ability to grow human tissue and use it to cure diseases? This article looks at the relationship between stem cells, embryos and abortion, arguing that the end cannot justify the means. Christian should be hopeful for this new development, but should stand firm in maintaining that it may not be done at the expense of life.

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Working Towards an Indigenous Church (4): A Self-Supporting Church

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The goal of mission work is to create indigenous churches which become self-governing, self-propagating, and self-supporting. This article looks at the aspect of a self-supporting church. The relationship between the sending church and the mission church is crucial, especially when it comes to money. The author points out errors from the past, but also gives directives for creating a self-supporting church.

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Working Towards an Indigenous Church (3): A Self-Propagating Church

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The goal of mission work is to create indigenous churches which become self-governing, self-propagating, and self-supporting. This article looks at the aspect of the indigenous church being self-propagating, discussing the importance of location, ability to speak the local language, developing instructional material in the local language, good books, training each believer to witness, and the training of children.

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Working Towards an Indigenous Church (2): A Self-governing Church

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The goal of mission work is to create indigenous churches which become self-governing, self-propagating, and self-supporting. This article looks at the aspect of the indigenous church being self-governing, providing six things to consider in relation to church government.

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Working Towards an Indigenous Church (1)

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What is an indigenous church? This is the question every missionary and sending church is asking. This article looks at the history of mission work during the colonization era and points to how things were done wrong. The author also discusses what it means to be an indigenous church.

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Practicing Personal Evangelism (5) – Personal Evangelism’s Impact on Church Extension

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This is the last article in a five part series on evangelism. Every Christian has a desire to share the gospel with unbelievers, but Christians often face the challenge of how to practice personal evangelism. This article focuses on practical ways of organising evangelism.

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Practicing Personal Evangelism (4) – Equipping Ourselves for the Work

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This is the fourth article in a five part series on evangelism. Every Christian has a desire to share the gospel with unbelievers, but Christians often face the challenge of how to practice personal evangelism. This article focuses on the person who is doing the witnessing. What should their character be like?

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Practicing Personal Evangelism (3) – How to do it

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This is the third article in a five part series on evangelism. Every Christian has a desire to share the gospel with unbelievers, but Christians often face the challenge of how to practice personal evangelism. This article focuses on the method of evangelism.

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Practicing Personal Evangelism (2) – Seeking the Salvation of the Lost

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This is the second article in a five part series on evangelism. Every Christian has a desire to share the gospel with unbelievers, but Christians often face the challenge of how to practice personal evangelism. This article focuses on the goal of evangelism.

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Practicing Personal Evangelism (1) – Sharing the Good News

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This is the first article in a five part series on evangelism. Every Christian has a desire to share the gospel with unbelievers, but Christians often face the challenge of how to practice personal evangelism. This article focuses on what the content of our evangelism should be. Where should we start and what should we say?

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"I come quickly"

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Love is the reason

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The more we gaze upon this Suffering Servant of Jehovah, the more we will see the horrible depths of our own depravity Jason L. Kortering
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Psalm 103:13-14 - A Father's Pity

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This article shows (from Psalm 103:13-14) how God as Father treats us, and what that means for our fatherhood. This text is all about the compassion of God.

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Psalm 23:4 - The Comfort of the Rod and the Staff

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This article is about Psalm 23:4: God as our shepherd in times of fear and danger. But it also shows how shepherds must be leaders, and what this leadership means.

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Romans 8:35-39 - The Inseparable Love of God

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This article on Romans 8:35-39 is about having assurance of the love of God.

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