SEMESTER 4 362 – The Articles of Faith Concerning Grace in the New Creation BIBLE INSTITUTE OF CORRESPONDENCE COURSE: ECCLESIOLOGY IV LESSON # 62 CHURCH COVENANT AND ARTICLES OF FAITH – CONCERNING GRACE IN THE NEW CREATION Read: Titus 3:3-5 INTRODUCTION: 1. This doctrine is too often misunderstood and miss-taught. 2. It is most frequently equated…

SEMESTER 4 363 – The Articles of Faith Concerning the Freeness of Salvation BIBLE INSTITUTE OF CORRESPONDENCE COURSE: ECCLESIOLOGY IV LESSON # 63 CHURCH COVENANT AND ARTICLES OF FAITH – ARTICLE OF FAITH CONCERNING THE FREENESS OF SALVATION Read: I Peter 1:1-8 and II Thes. 2:13 INTRODUCTION: 1. Absolute grace and human responsibility SEEM mutually exclusive to the…

SEMESTER 4 364 – The Articles of Faith Concerning the Justifiction BIBLE INSTITUTE OF CORRESPONDENCE COURSE: ECCLESIOLOGY IV LESSON # 64 CHURCH COVENANT AND ARTICLES OF FAITH – ARTICLE OF FAITH CONCERNING JUSTIFICATION Read: Acts 13:38-42 INTRODUCTION: 1. What a common and great Bible word is justification! 2. Secularly it means vindication as to a certain…

SEMESTER 3 333 – Socializing in the Church BIBLE INSTITUTE OF CORRESPONDENCE COURSE: ECCLESIOLOGY III LESSON # 33 SOCIALIZING IN THE CHURCH Read I Cor. 11:17-34. Note particularly verse 22. INTRODUCTION: 1. The subject is social activity within the church family. 2. Variation of conviction here has a very wide range. i. One extreme is a…

SEMESTER 3 334 – Worship in the Church BIBLE INSTITUTE OF CORRESPONDENCE COURSE: ECCLESIOLOGY III LESSON # 34 WORSHIP IN THE CHURCH Read Jn. 4:19-24. INTRODUCTION: 1. The term worship is frequently used, but seldom considered analytically. 2. For this reason many people are religious, and even attend church regularly, who never worship. 3. Not only…

SEMESTER 3 335 – Officers in the Church – Deacons BIBLE INSTITUTE OF CORRESPONDENCE COURSE: ECCLESIOLOGY LESSON # 35 OFFICERS OF THE CHURCH (DEACONS) Read Phil. 1:1, I Tim. 3:8-13. INTRODUCTION: 1. No area of church practice is more polluted by unbiblical tradition, than the “use of the office of a deacon.” 2. The broad variation of…

SEMESTER 3 336 – Officers in the Church – Bishops or Elders BIBLE INSTITUTE OF CORRESPONDENCE COURSE: ECCLESIOLOGY III LESSON # 36 OFFICERS IN THE CHURCH (BISHOPS OR ELDERS) Read I Tim. 5:1, 17, 19, Titus 1:5, I Pet. 5:1, 5, I Tim. 3:1, 2, Acts 20:28, Titus 1:7, I Pet. 2:25. INTRODUCTION: 1. Like the word deacon, the words elder and bishop are Bible words…

SEMESTER 3 337 – The Ordinances of the Church – Symbolisms BIBLE INSTITUTE OF CORRESPONDENCE COURSE: ECCLESIOLOGY III LESSON # 37 THE ORDINANCES OF THE CHURCH (SYMBOLISMS) Read Mat. 28:19, 20, Acts 2:41-47, Mat. 26:26-30, Lk. 22:13-20, I Cor. 11:17-34. INTRODUCTION: These are but a few of the Scriptures pertinent to the symbolism of the ordinances. The violence of Satan against…

SEMESTER 3 338 – The Ordinances of the Church – Baptism BIBLE INSTITUTE OF CORRESPONDENCE COURSE: ECCLESIOLOGY III LESSON # 38 ORDINANCES OF THE CHURCH (BAPTISM) Read Mat. 28:19-20, Acts 2:41, Acts 22:12-16. INTRODUCTION: It would be shallow and foolish to minimize the significance of water baptism in the New Testament. It is so pre-eminent that a surface…

SEMESTER 3 339 – The Ordinances of the Church – The Lord’s Table BIBLE INSTITUTE OF CORRESPONDENCE COURSE: ECCLESIOLOGY III LESSON # 39 THE ORDINANCES OF THE CHURCH (THE LORD’S TABLE) Read Mat. 26:26-30, Mk. 14:22-26, Lk. 22:19-20. I Cor. 11:17-34. INTRODUCTION: The considerations surrounding the ordinance, referred to as the Lord’s Supper, the Lord’s Table, or Communion, are…