Acclamation is a loud shout of approval. Edification is the building up of the saints. What do we want? To be shouted down or to build the people up?
The Dangers of Seeking Acclamation
The Evidence of Carnality
The Evidence of Carnality Robert Wurtz II For you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men? (1 Corinthians 3:3) Paul, from his great love and care for the churches, identified a problem at Corinth that he refers to as carnality and then... Continue Reading →
Adjusting Our Aim
Adjusting Our Aim Robert Wurtz II Â We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well-pleasing to Him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each... Continue Reading →
Normalized Carnality
Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. (1 Corinthians 1:10 NKJV) Carnality is the great enemy of... Continue Reading →