Pacesetters Bible School Newsletter

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The entire Sinaiticus manuscript, the oldest complete copy of the New Testament along with parts of the Old Testament and some other documents will be available in photo and transcription form along with translation by next July. See the complete story at the Christian Post.
Some portions will go on display next week.

. . . according to this story.

According to this article in the Washington Post churches are offering more courses in “Biblical” money management, and more and more people are taking them. (I place “Biblical” in quotes because I believe that while these courses may be founded in Biblical principles they are infused with modern financial practices–not a bad thing, but [...]

Would God it were only two!
Richard Heyduck of the Bandits No More blog discusses two errors, one committed more commonly by Baptists, and the other more commonly by Methodists. Both errors, he suggests, lead to us preaching less than the full Jesus Christ.
How can we avoid these two errors?

I thought this statement was quite good. They intentionally don’t name a specific revival, but give generally principles.
Note that Pacesetters Bible School is interdenominatonal, a and is not associated with the Assemblies of God.

Art in the Liturgy: The Recovery of Narrative provides some interesting perspective on why we do liturgy.
What could we each do to make our liturgy draw people into the Christian story? Are the other “counter-narratives” we might tell by which liturgy might actually impeded people’s Christian growth?

Mark Sayers discusses a serious problem for churches trying to be missional. What if the members themselves do not have confidence in their faith or do not regard it as a good thing?
He says:

But there is a fat, stinky pink elephant sitting in the middle of the missional conversation that everyone is ignoring. The [...]

I won’t make any direct comment of my own until I have had time to look at the text itself, but many scholars from a variety of perspectives are indicating that the text that is being interpreted to discuss a Messiah who rises after three days prior to the time of Jesus is extremely doubtful.
This [...]