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...convinced that, "in spite of excessive party fragmentation . . . the people of Israel are far more united at heart than many imagine." Then he concluded with a definition of faith, in his version of the words of the Prophet Habakkuk: "Righteous man lives by his faith. He will not preach to others, will not act the saint by calling on others to live justly, will not look for fault in his neighbour. But he will practice his faith in his daily life-he will live it." Next week Ben-Gurion will begin living his as a sheep-farmer in the desert...
...city. To begin with, "Peter was the leader of the entire church only at Jerusalem." When Peter left Jerusalem, he turned over leadership of the church to James, the brother of Jesus,* and himself became merely the subordinate head of the "Jewish Christian mission." It was his job to preach the Gospel to Jews outside the Holy City, just as it was Paul's parallel mission to preach to the Gentiles...
...complete as it seems on the surface. A careful reading of certain confessions has convinced those acquainted with the signers that they carry a double meaning-a defense of the conduct or thought now disowned as well as an ostensible statement of conformity . . . Some ministers openly and determinedly preach the Christian Evangel, refusing to adulterate it with politics and even condemning those who preach a political gospel . . . Chinese Christians have assured many of us that they will be true to Christ, that they will die rather than renounce their faith...
Bacon called "drys," who preach the gospel of no drinking at all, "well meaning," but said "they are doing something which is unmoral...
...Before the 140th annual meeting of the North Carolina Presbyterian synod, the Rev. Benjamin F. Hall of Wilmington complained of so many special financial drives in the church today, that "I find there are only three Sundays in the year that I can preach the Gospel of Christ." The synod unanimously passed his resolution that "the absolute dedication of life and possessions to the Lord Jesus Christ . . . must underlie any Biblical system of church financing...