David Bauer

HOMOSEXUALITY ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE

A CONTRIBUTION TO THE POSITION OF THE FREE METHODIST CHURCH ON SAME-SEX RELATIONSHIPS By David R. Bauer Like all Christian bodies, the Free Methodist Church is presently confronted with the necessity of responding to strong cultural pressures to accept homosexual...

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THE CHURCH AND MISSION

The recent tendency to use the word “missional” to divide the church’s inward and outward responsibilities is true neither to the Church’s nature nor its God-given mission. Mission is the very essence of the Church’s existence. Mission is not something the Church...

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God Is Responsive

Free Methodists believe that we must take seriously the fact that Scripture presents God as both knowing the future and sometimes changing his mind. Some readers of the Bible take these two descriptions to be contradictory. After all, they would say, how can God...

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