Headlines week 19

Church needs more Jesus and less motivational speaking
Christian Today - "The church must put Jesus back at the centre of its message, Agu Irukwu told Baptists last night.
The senior pastor of Jesus House, in London, said some churches were too focused on trying to make Jesus and the cross palatable and acceptable to 21st century society.
“Thank God for advances in theology, thank God for thinkers in the church, thank God for churches that have to be seeker-friendly and all these other nice terms.
“But it seems that the more seeker-friendly we get, the less of Jesus we get so when people come to church they are not sure whether they are in church or at a gathering where someone is giving a motivational speech and the power is not in motivational speaking. The power is in Jesus,” he said."

Holiness

By Major Andrew Bale on fsaof.blogspot. com - "Holiness is about being good it’s not about doing good. Some people confuse holiness with Salvation by works. They believe that holiness encourages us to do good in order to win God's approval but as I have already said holiness is not aboutdoing good it's about being good. Of course doing good things will always be the result of of holiness, but such good works are the end of holiness and not the means.  That's why the bible prefers to talk about fruit. Fruit is easily understood as a product."