As we read at the beginning of the book of Acts, the early church was devoted to fellowship, koinōnia (sharing things in common; koinon = common): “And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. … And all who believed were together and had all things in common” (Acts 2:42). The… Read More
Heaven and Hell: The Only Options? A Critique of Conditional Immortality
With the possible exception of money, there is no other subject on which Jesus taught more than heaven and hell. Yet preachers today often shrink back from touching these delicate subjects, perhaps in part out of fear that they might offend their audience. For a broadcast with Janet Parshall, I was asked to comment on… Read More
Does John Teach a Replacement Theology?
Does John, in his Gospel, teach a replacement theology whereby the church takes the place of Israel in God’s salvation-historical program? In other words, did John believe, and did he teach, that, now that Jesus had come, and the nation of Israel had rejected him as Messiah, God focused his work on the church as… Read More
The Gospel, Missions, and Inclusivism
Daniel Strange, in his monograph The Possibility of Salvation Among the Unevangelised, defines the “unevangelized” as “any person in history who has lived and died without hearing and understanding the Gospel of Jesus Christ from a human messenger.” As Strange notes, this would seem to include at least four groups of people: (1) children who died… Read More
The Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (JETS) at 50
Thank you, Ron, and thank you, Alan, for summarizing for us the first 40 years or so of the history of the publication of the Journal. It is a privilege and a sacred stewardship to serve the Society as JETS editor, and I want to thank the executive committee and all of you for your… Read More