Question Can you share with me why you teach that we cannot have apostles and prophets today? Answer This is a question people often ask me because churches and individuals use these terms worldwide today. According to Paul in Ephesians 4:11, Jesus gave four specific leadership roles to his church – apostles, prophets, evangelists, and pastor-teachers […]
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Question There are a couple passages in the gospels where Jesus refers to doing His Father’s will instead of His own (John 6:38 and Luke 22:42). Why (or in what sense) would Jesus’ will have differed from the Father’s? Answer Thanks for this great question. Two things are going on here, both related to the
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This post follows the Bible reading plan available at oaktreechurch.com/soap. Chapter four tells the story of Deborah and Barak and their defeat of Sisera and the Canaanites. There is nothing in the text that tells when Deborah became a judge or why she was chosen instead of a man, like the other judges. Given her
