JERRYGILLIS

Last week, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in a 5-4 decision that homosexuals should be afforded the right to marry one another and entitled to all of the legal protections and advantages of marriage. This is now the law of the land. For many states in our country, today looks very different for them. For others of us, like those of us in New York, this news simply repeated on a Federal level what was already established in our state (though the language of the law was…

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Introduction:The goal of this brief article is to gain some insight into the idea of church governance.  Particularly, these thoughts reflect church governance related to independent, non-denominational churches.  The governance structure of denominational churches is easily observed and often clearly documented in formal ways through the specific denomination.  Independent, non-denominational church governance is not as easily observed and documented, so the purpose and explanations of this brief article will be aimed in that direction.As an early disclaimer, this article is not intended to be academic in nature.  It is intended…

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Thought I would post for you an article that Dr. Dwight Smith and I wrote about the gospel.  It's long, so I won't be mad at you if this is not something that fits your appetite.  Here you go: Toward a more Holistic Understanding of The Gospel Jerry Gillis and Dwight Smith The Purpose Any attempt to fully articulate the idea of the “gospel” will undoubtedly be found wanting, and this brief document will be no different.  Our posture is that the whole of Scripture must be considered in the construction of the idea…

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