Can Women Serve?
Scripture honors women as indispensable gospel workers while reserving the governing shepherd-teacher office of elder, pastor, and overseer for qualified men under apostolic instruction alone.
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A Capable Guide with a Loaded Map
Schreiner’s method strengthens Pauline exegesis, yet his Reformed framework softens conditional warnings, moral agency, and communal responsibility, altering the apostolic deposit’s original shape and force.
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Apostolic Baptism and the Unified Pattern of Christian Initiation
A grammatical-historical exegesis arguing the New Testament presents one apostolic pattern of initiation in which baptism is the faith-governed point of covenant entry.
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What Matters?
God determines what matters, calling the church to weigh doctrine, holiness, love, justice, mercy, wisdom, and error according to Scripture’s priorities with faithful discernment alone.
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Who Is Christ?
Jesus Christ is the eternal Word made flesh, crucified for sins, risen as Lord, revealer of the Father, head of the church, Savior, and Judge.
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Acts 22:16 and Washing Away Sins
Acts 22:16 presents baptism as Saul’s urgent, faith-filled appeal to Christ, where he calls on the Lord and receives the washing away of sins.
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Acts 2:38 and the Apostolic Pattern
Acts 2:38 presents the apostolic response to Christ: repent, be baptized in His name for forgiveness, receive the Spirit, and enter His covenant community faithfully.
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Baptism and Covenant Entry
Baptism is the God-appointed threshold of covenant entry, where repentant faith receives cleansing, union with Christ, the Spirit, incorporation into His body, and new life.
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One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism
Apostolic unity rests on one risen Lord, one delivered faith, and one baptism joining repentant believers to Christ, His forgiveness, Spirit, body, and covenant life.
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Why Doctrine Must Be Tested
Doctrine must be tested because deception is real, teachers can err, traditions can distort, and every teaching must remain accountable to Scripture and apostolic truth.
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