Year: 2021
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Consider the Interests of Others
In this paper, Kevin Kisler analyses Paul’s surprising employment of the substantiving use of the article (τὰ) in Philippians to define and illustrate Christ-like humility.
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#Theology: Social Media, Scripture, and the Local Church
This study will attempt to show that social media, by their very design, predispose us toward certain behaviors, forming us in ways that are predominantly unfitting for citizens of heaven and antithetical to the gospel. I will survey the dysfunctions and (de)formative power of social media, and consider how the church must respond.
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Gospel Centrality and Global Missions
The purpose of this paper is to challenge and encourage us as pastors who consider their ministries and churches to be “gospel-centered”—that is, pastors characterized by a high view of the gospel and the desire to not only proclaim the gospel to unbelievers, but also apply the gospel to believers—that gospel centrality necessarily keeps the…
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Elders with an “S”: Plural Pastors in the Life of a Local Church
The church I serve, Evangelical Church of Fairport, is an independent, reformed, credobaptist church with an elder-led congregational church government. This paper will advocate for this form of church polity for independent, non-denominational churches and explain to an extent how this form of church government functions at ECF.