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Everyone is looking for power. Political campaigns play to the power of fear and hope; advertising agencies rely on the power of appetite, both wielding power by the means of words. But churches have something different and better. Churches have the gospel. Though we live in the world, we must not wage war like the world, or fight with its weapons. On the contrary, we have divine power to...

4. False conversions defame the glory of God’s name. God has set apart a people for himself for his own glory. But with false conversions, what was designed for his praise tends instead to the profaning, even blaspheming, of his name, just as Ezekiel warned about. I have always been struck by how Paul dealt with divisiveness in the Corinthian church. He asks the penetrating question, “Is Christ divided?” (1 Cor. 1:13), a question with clear theological assumptions behind it: The local church should
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