Summary This article contains seven guidelines that will help us read the Bible well. We need to pay attention to the context, to God’s ongoing revelation, and to the genre of the text. We don’t expect to find new revelations… Read More »How to read the Bible well. Seven guidelines
When evangelicals state that they reject homosexual practice and the possibility of same-sex marriage, they are often accused of judging others and told that this is not a Christian attitude. Didn’t Jesus himself tell us not to judge? We are… Read More »Judging and Judgment
The fact that I did not grow up in England means that I miss bits of cultural background information that natives receive with their mother’s milk. Examples of such gaps in my knowledge are Shakespeare and Doctor Who. Another example… Read More »Gentle Jesus, meek and mild
Simon is an accredited Baptist minister who prefers not to give away more details about himself than you find in his testimony. He wrote this testimony at our request and gave us permission to use it here. I, Pieter Lalleman,… Read More »Pilgrimage
Much has, and will no doubt also be written, in contribution to the debate on human sexuality and how this relates to the Baptist Together family. This short paper is merely an attempt to show that the traditional view of… Read More »Contribution to the debate about human sexuality in the Baptist Union
It seems to me that there are three main positions in the debate about the acceptability of homosexual relationships in the light of the Bible: The traditional view which recognises and accepts that the Bible does not approve of homosexual… Read More »Can Evangelicals be Affirming?