LARGER PICTURE OF SALVATION: THREE STAGES

A lot of people, in Christendom, tend to define salvation as something that is to do with one's deliverance from the bondage of sin and ticket to the heaven's entrance. Undoubtedly, this is the best short definition available of salvation. Bible even goes on to say that those who take the name of Jesus Christ shall be saved. We can't build the doctrine of salvation based on one or two verses of the bible. Every verse of the bible is true but to develop an overall understanding we need to...

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FAITH NOT ONLY FOR MIRACLE BUT MISERY

"Faith not alone for miracle but misery" Evidently, so many Christians define faith in God as something that will always deliver them from disease, deformity, debilitation, danger, distress, discouragement, destruction, darkness, dejection, dungeon, death; in short faith will release us from all sorts of sufferings.  Sadly when these doesn't seem to happened or miracle doesn't take place in long run many a believers tend to loose faith in God or withdraw themselves from Christianity.  But...

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SO CALLED "LOVE"

Understanding the concept of love  In the Greek language there are four words for love;  Agape:  ἀγάπη it refers to divine love, unconditional love with stick-ability; Agape is the highest of the four types of love in the Bible. Jesus Christ showed this kind of divine love to his Father and to all humanity.  Storge:  στοργή it refers to parental love; Even though this Greek word for family love is not specifically found in Scripture, examples of it are seen...

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THE PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THEOLOGICAL BELIEFS

Once I heard a pastor sharing his experience. As he went about evangelizing, he happened to meet a bunch of Indians. To one guy pastor asked, “Do you know what the Bible is all about?”. One guy replied, “Don’t worry I know I will tell you, it’s a history of English men coming to India and robbing our people”. This is the sorry state of affairs of our country. People fail to understand the preciousness and irreplaceability of God’s Word. If it was a religious text of some other religion which...

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बाइबल मे मिशन

मिशन शब्द बाइबल मे नही पाया जाता है लेकिन इस शब्द का अर्थ पुरे बाइबल मे गुथा हुआ देखा जा सकता है परमेश्वर के द्वारा इब्राहीम की बुलाहट से लेकर चेलों की भेजें जाने, प्रचार करने, शिक्षा देने एवं बप्तिस्मा देने की बुलाहट तक परमेश्वर को मिशन कार्य करते देखा जा सकता है शुरूवात के लेकर अंत तक उसकी पुस्तक एक मिशनरी पुस्तक है मिशन की शुरूवात परमेश्वर के हृदय से हुई और मसीह के दुबारा आगमन तक  परमेश्वर के  साथ चलता रहेगा   ...

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GENDER RELATION ISSUES

Unless our global society proves to be just and humane we can’t claim any progress or achievement.[1] Egregious gender inequality still exists globally despite of considerable national and international actions that have been taken towards gender equality. While UN Speakers, from various countries, come together to discuss on the topics as such “Female Empowerment in Changing Workplace, Gender Equality Commitments, as Commission on Status of Women” there is still a vast landscape where the theme...

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