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Article XIV of BF&M: Cooperation

The Baptist Faith & Message 2000 reads, “Christ’s people should, as occasion requires, organize such associations and conventions as may best secure cooperation for the great objects of the Kingdom of God. Such organizations have no authority over one another or over the churches. ... Members of New Testament churches should cooperate with one another in carrying forward ... ministries for the extension of Christ’s Kingdom."
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Article XIII of the BFM: Stewardship

From the Baptist Faith & Message 2000: “God is the source of all blessings, temporal and spiritual; all that we have and are we owe to Him. Christians have a spiritual debtorship to the whole world, a holy trusteeship in the gospel, and a binding stewardship in their possessions."
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Do Christians and Mormons worship the same God?

Is the doctrine of God true common ground for evangelicals and Mormons? Let’s compare biblical truths about God with the LDS position as stated in its “standard works” – mainly the Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants – along with statements from church authorities.
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Christ’s deity in the New Testament

While the Old Testament offers glimpses of a second Yahweh figure – a visible manifestation of the one true God – the New Testament presents a more complete picture of the second person of the Godhead. Let’s begin with Jesus Himself.
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Why MMO is so vitally important

MMO is vitally important to you and to those you touch in Jesus’ Name through your generous gift.
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The indwelling Holy Spirit

The Spirit produces many life-changing results in us. He confirms our adoption as children of God; places us into the body of Christ as members of the universal church; seals us; convicts us of our need to confess sins; grants us spiritual gifts for service; helps us understand the Bible, which He authored; empowers our prayer life; enables us to overcome temptation; and produces evidence of His presence in our lives.
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You are foreknown

Every event in time and eternity plays out exactly as God knows it will. His foreknowledge is more than perfect, however; it’s personal.
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The deity of the Holy Spirit

The relationship of the three persons of the Trinity is so intimate that Paul describes the Holy Spirit as the Spirit of God and the Spirit of Christ within a single verse: “You, however, are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to him” (Rom. 8:9).
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Incarnational heresies

It is crucial that followers of Jesus hold to a biblically faithful view of the Incarnation, in which the eternal Son of God added sinless humanity to His deity, thus becoming the God-Man.
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Six key passages about the Incarnation

By the term “Incarnation,” we mean the eternal Son of God took on human flesh in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. Let’s look at six key passages of Scripture that help us understand what it means when the apostle John writes, “the Word became flesh.”
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10 truths about the Incarnation

So far in this series, we have established that the Incarnation means the eternal Son of God took on human flesh in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. In this article, we summarize 10 essential truths about the Incarnation.
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Jesus as the God-man

The message of the Incarnation is that the eternal Son of God became flesh – that is, He added sinless humanity to His deity, never relinquishing His deity or abandoning His humanity. This is sometimes explained by the term “hypostatic union”

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