Labels:text | black and white | font | newspaper | screenshot | document OCR: -COMMUNICATION -- ES become lodged-in an exercise of knowing what not to believe in. Now, we're certainly correct for being "set for the defense of the gospel" (Phillipians 1:17) But, we need to be careful Good communication is much like an to maintain a good balance here. Far too electrical flow: freely moving in a current, many people know exactly what they're from positives to negatives. Using this against, but know very little about what example, one form of bad communication they're actually for. involves a "terminal" problem. Some people's This is backwards religion .... twisted faith is "grounded" upon a "totally negative" faith .... teachings in reverse. We need to be approach towards Truth. able to communicate a positive statement of In this regard, some believe that the that which we do believe. best approach to the truth is to know Sometimes we get so hung-up on everything about that which is false. Their exposing error, that we forget that one of the assumption, I suppose, is that once best ways to do this is to just "preach the everything that is false is known, then all that word". (2 Timothy 4:2) "But sanctify the Lord will be left is the truth. I have not yet lived God in your hearts: and be ready always to long enough to see if this works successfully give an answer to every man that asks you for anyone (and, frankly, I doubt that anyone for a reason of the hope that is in you, with could). meekness and fear :... " (1 Peter 3:15) It makes me a bit wary whenever I There is some value in being meet Christians who take great pride in their educated, to a degree, in popular deceptions, knowledge of false doctrine. The part that and common mistakes in thinking. However, really disturbs me is that these same folks often find it difficult to make any kind of a faith! this should not be allowed to become our "positive" statement concerning their own beliefs. If we're not careful, our faith can This month, we celebrate the In addition to e-mail, CP now has a postal address addition of a few changes in this ministry. for contact. Bible Correspondence Courses are now offered Thanks to the support of a bbcal free-of-charge to anyone who requests them. congregation in Houston, CP may now be Lastly, each current issue of CP can now be mailed directly to subscribers every month at a production-based costof$5.00 per year downbaded from several religious-based BBS's in the Houston area. (Hopefully, next month I will have permission (barely above postal charges). CP will to publish their phone numbers.) After logging-on, search continue to be a non-profit venture, with for "cpxxxx.zip" (example- October 1996 would be any surpluses put back into the ministry "cp1096.zip"). Once unzipped, the file contains the pages of itself. At this juncture, we encourage every Christian benefited by this ministry to CP issue in .bmp format; viewable in Paintbrush or any other graphics program which either supports or converts Changes Welcome consider subscribing. (See "Publisher's bitmap (.bmp) files. Note"bebw) PUBLISHER'S NOTE Chris tian Perspectives" is amonthly public ationdesigned toserve as both awrittenministry to Christians; and, anevangelistic outreachto others . Though all materials hereinare copyrighted, permissionis granted to make additional copies, and distribute them, according to the following conditions: 1 ) the entire publicationis copied;2) its contents remainunaltered; and 3) it is givenout free-of-charge. Copyright @ To be included on the permanent mailing list, you may subscribe by sending $5.00 armuall v(checkor money order payable to: "Christian 1996 William J. Reed Perspectives"). Free Bible Correspondence Course available to anyone upon request. Mail all inquiries and subscriptions to: Christian Pe is pectives, c/o Northwest ChurchofChrist,6720 W. Tidwell, Houston, TX 77092 Comments maybe e-mailed: handrake@aol.com Also: WilliamReed@eternityconchbbs.com Please pray for this ministry and pass CPissues onto others. Thanks, WIR
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