The Narrow Path Ministries

Hello mkprr, Referring to Paul and the New Testament Church Danny said ” There is a noticeable lack of hierarchy.” I would suggest reading through Acts again. I appreciate your helpful suggestion. However, I've spent the last few years intensively studying the New Testament (including Acts), as well...

If the conclusion is that things would be very different, then one must wonder why the Bible does not clearly teach it if it is true. Hi TK, Perhaps this is another example of us wanting the Bible to speak to things which the authors didn't intend? It seems to me that our Western Tradition of Chris...

Really? You don't see the relationship between the parable and the question being discussed? It didn't strike me that Paidion was attempting to apply the parable literally as an apologetic for Universal Salvation. Rather, he was making the more nuanced point that God's sense of what is fair seems to...

A couple of thoughts regarding prophets: The model of the New Testament church was of small interconnected communities (ekklesia), wherein each person (male and female) had the opportunity to function for the building up of the community. In knowing one another--worshiping and sharing life together-...

Hi Steve & TK,

Yes I have gradually become, as the Quakers say, "convinced". Mort is on sabbatical, but he sends his regards.

If I had to pick one post-Apostolic-era person, it would be George Fox.

FWIW, I purchased "Romans in a Week" on CD a couple of years ago and have listened through it a few times. I think it is a wonderful teaching. It provided me with a framework for understanding Paul's letter to the Romans which brought both the entire letter and specific passages into much clearer co...

Gee, I feel like Norm walking into Cheers! Thanks for the kind words. Steve, I really do hope you are able to write this book. The time is ripe for re-examination and public discourse on the church's teachings about Hell. What better way to facilitate this than to present the various viewpoints as c...

Hi Steve, I haven't been participating (or even lurking) at the forum for a few months now. My current responsibilities have made it very difficult to spend much time in online discussions. It can be quite frustrating to not have the time to adequetely express onself after entering into a discussion...