EA has produced a series of short articles (1,000-1,500 words) on key biblical themes.
They can be viewed below:
The articles are straightforward and easy to read, biblical and deal with practical issues of Christian life. The first one concerns the Trinity. It is not, as sometimes suggested, incomprehensible, irrelevant, unnecessary or un-biblical. Rather it is fundamentally simple, thoroughly practical, theologically essential and totally biblical. It is as essential for good Christian theology as bones are for the body.
The second article deals with one of the primary characteristics of God – his grace and the third with the related theme of redemption. You can redeem your frequent flyer points or your investments but this is about God redeeming humanity!
Then there two articles on the Holy Spirit (or the Spirit of God) from an evangelical perspective. While there is general agreement regarding the person of the Holy Spirit, there is diversity of belief when it comes to the work of the Holy Spirit in the world today. There is also an article on spirituality, which in most general usage, is simply a description of the way one experiences the world and lives one’s life. But biblically it means more than that.
Then there are articles on church, ministry and kingdom, All the church’s interests – its continuation in its existing form, the ministry it performs and the extension of its influence – must be subordinated to the interests of the kingdom of God. If the spirit and the institutions of the church are in line with God’s kingdom, then the church is Christ’s church. If they run counter to God’s kingdom, the church loses its right to exist and becomes a superfluous religious society.
How Christians live is important. Holiness is important. Simply speaking, holiness is Christlikeness. It is having the mind of Christ and being like Christ in our behaviour. Another article deals with justice. It compares the biblical notion of justice with secular concepts. Biblical justice means very practical, down-to-earth actions which take place to ensure that the weak are protected from abuse, that the poor have what they need, the stranger in the land is shown hospitality and that the socially disadvantaged are cared for. Even when this means giving them what they do not ‘deserve’!
Christians have hope for the future. What God will do at the end of the present age flows out of what he has already done through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The second coming of Christ is but the final act in God's age-long drama of salvation.
