What outreach course does your church use, if any? What courses have you used or have experience with? Is there any which you would not recommend?

Honestly, can you provide any passage in the Bible that expresses what you just said?

Have you ever quoted scripture to a Talmudic Jew? What would you imagine the problem with that is? They see the Bible through the lens of the Talmud. The rebbes have taught them the "correct interpretation" of everything. They've taught them the "oral tradition" from the old grey heads of their faith.

A Jew quoted to me some New Testament scripture, "proving" that Christians are taught that Jesus'...

Here is the NASB95 translation of Matthew 15:3: "And He answered and said to them, “Why do you yourselves transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?"

Do folks transgress the commands of God to benefit their tradition or do they transgress the commands of God in order to follow their tradition's doctrines. YLT has "because of your tradition?"

The English word "sake" can mean "for the benefit of" or "for the purpose of."

The Greek word translated "for the sake...

Imagine that you are able to give 10 books for free to a new believer, what books would you chose?

For the sake of the thread assume that the believer has a bible and is of average intelligence/ability.
My choices:

1) Basic Christianity - John Stott
2) Enjoying God - Tim Chester
3) God's Plan For Salvation(GPS) - Allan Chapple
4) God's Big Picture - Vaughan Roberts
5) True Spirituality - Vaughan Roberts
6) Sola Scriptura - James White
7) The Radical Disciple - John Stott
8) Rooted(History...

Twice a week I attend a program with groups for people with disorders like schizophrenia, where there is one patient who is a Calvinist, from whose mouth comes always the doctrines of Calvinism, referring for proof to verses like those in Romans 9, which reads:
1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,

2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.

3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my...

David told his son Solomon;
1Ch_28:9 And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.

1Ch_28:21 And, behold, the courses of the priests and the Levites, even they shall be with thee for all the service of the house of God: and...

I was listening to a regular radio prog of a well-known evangelist who was killed in a plane crash in 1982, who was supposed to be indy fundy Baptist. While I'm not a regular listener, I happened to be listening today, His sermon was supposed to be about taking drugs, not only illicitly, but for supposed beneficial effects. He started out fine, but then began talking about some old doc who never prescribed a drug, but supposedly had a high cure rate, then, about abuse of 'sleeping pills'. He...

Baptism in Jesus’ name

Jesus said: “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:” Matthew 28:19 (KJV 1900)

And the Apostles did so, or did they? “(For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)” Acts 8:16 (KJV 1900)

“And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days.” Acts 10:48 (KJV 1900)

“When they heard...

Which stand do you believe
and what is the Scripture reference for your stand

Unrestricted open - even the non-save may or might partake
Open-------------------- Must be born again - denomination immaterial
Close-------------------- Must be part of the "denomination" * of that local church
Closed------------------ Must be a member of that local church.
Other------------------- Please explain

* for the purpose of this thread - the use of the definition of "denomination" will
be limited...

Does Christ's atonement cover the sin of unbelief?