The priesthood and the eldership of the Old Testament and the ministry and eldership of the New Testament are unmistakably male offices. If the diaconate in the New Testament broke with this pattern, the change would have represented a dramatic revolution in biblical polity.

Surely we should have a very good reason why we should abandon the practice of the Christian centuries to be in God’s house, to sing his praise and hear his Word, twice on the Lord’s holy Day.

If there is a great error being made by today’s Christian ministry, it is the reluctance to insist that Christians learn the Bible.

We forget that most of this clatter will be forgotten tomorrow or the next day or week or month. It will, by then, be replaced by another set of urgent communications to command our attention.

If we are to adorn our place within the one, holy, catholic Church, we cannot give way to tribalism in thought, speech, or behavior.

Part one of a series of challenges and encouragements from Rev. Dr. Rayburn to the church’s next generation.

In Holy Scripture, the corporate worship of God’s people, worship on the Lord’s Day in the Lord’s House, is the defining center and the great engine of the life of faith.