the7ones.comApril, 2009
On Todd Deaver’s response to my review of Facing Our Failure
The following is a response to an article by Todd Deaver on his website. As I continue to study through some fellowship passages on this site, I need to take some time to reply to some comments Todd has had on my review of his book. Todd writes on his website, Having begun a review [...]
Fellowship: 2 John
“Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house nor greet him; for he who greets [...]
Fellowship: 1 John 1:6-7
“If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.” — 1 [...]
Fellowship: Titus 3:10
“But avoid foolish disputes, genealogies, contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and useless. Reject a divisive man after the first and second admonition, knowing that such a person is warped and sinning, being self-condemned.” — Titus 3:10-11 The process is clear, here. Titus is told to “reject” a divisive man after [...]
Fellowship: 1 Timothy 6:3-5
“If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which accords with godliness, he is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions, useless wranglings of men of corrupt [...]
Fellowship: 1 & 2 Timothy
“This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you may wage the good warfare, having faith and a good conscience, which some having rejected, concerning the faith have suffered shipwreck, of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan that they may [...]
Fellowship: 2 Thessalonians 3:6-15
“But we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the tradition which he received from us.” — 2 Thess. 3:6 Many times this particular passage is taken out of its context and used as a broad, sweeping command. [...]
Fellowship: Added notes on Romans 16:17-18
An important word in Romans 16:17 is “avoid,” which is a translation of the Greek ekklino. This word is used only three times in the New Testament. The general meaning of the word is “keep away from, turn away from,” according to The Analytical Lexicon of the New Testament. One usage in in 1 Peter [...]
Fellowship: Ephesians 5:11
“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.” — Ephesians 5:11 Ephesians 5:1 gives us direction as to what God expects of His children. He expects us to be imitators of Him, as beloved children. He expects us to walk in love, using Christ as our example. With this [...]