Like many,I had to preach on Mark 13 yesterday,though unlike most it was a dialogue sermon where I was asked (prepared) questions,and we then opened it up to the ‘floor’for further questions. So I had to make my mind up about this passage! There are three main ways this has been [...] Jesus’‘parable’of the sheep and the goats in Matt 25.31–46 is very well known and widely misinterpreted. It forms one part of the extended teaching about ‘the end’distinctive to Matthew (compared with Mark and Luke). It is most commonly interpreted as an injunction to help the poor;most Christians (in the West at [...] Matt 24.36–41 is one of the two key passages used to teach the doctrine of the ‘rapture’,the idea that believers will secretly be taken up to be with Jesus at some point before his ‘return.’(The other passage is 1 Thess 4.13–18.) But close reading shows that Jesus teaches no such thing. The passage [...] I am a member of the Church of England Evangelical Council,and yesterday we had a meeting at Lambeth Palace. We were there to hear from the Archbishop of Canterbury,and to ask him questions,in the end both about what he had said and about wider concerns for evangelicals in the Church. Rowan’s address,[...] | ||
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