Fire in our hearts - Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTS
CITY ON A HILL
We believe that God’s purpose is to gain a people... God made
covenant with Abraham, and the promise finds fulfilment
through the New Covenant, in which both Jews and Gentiles
are of the true Israel, the church of the living God...
We believe that God’s covenant people are called to be separated
to him from the spirit of the world. They are to bear prophetic
witness to the Kingdom of God as a visible expression of
the Lordship of Christ. They are thus the City or Zion of God,
His temple and dwelling place...
We affirm the call of Jesus to renounce all other things to be
His disciple... not that this requires rejection of the nuclear family
or any strict exclusivism. The regenerate, as may be possible,
shall voluntarily have all things in common, but we do not
make this a condition of membership...
We affirm that male and female are equal in status, but we
hold the scriptural distinction... that men differ from women in
role, appearance and dress. We regard the keeping of special
days and seasons as unwarranted by scripture...
We also hold that believers are to bear their cross as Christ’s
disciples. The world must persecute us...
Three days later a headline appeared in the Oxford Journal:
‘MP URGED TO PROBE RELIGIOUS SECT. An Oxford couple
have accused a religious sect of splitting their family.’ 58
Their son, who had maintained regular contact with his family,
was in fact a twenty-eight year old teacher with a PhD!
Within weeks the Baptist Times had grieved many of its readers
by reproducing this headline on its front page.
Lewis Misselbrook from the Baptist Union headquarters was
a friend of ours and replied, ‘Bugbrooke is a member of our
fellowship of churches. I hope our Union will never become a
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