Christ our Great High Priest has made one Church of both Jew and Gentile, who have all been brought from plight to privilege, from poverty to riches, from shame to honor, from ruin to glory!
There can be no better exhortation for today's church. It is where Evangelical repentance must begin.
Contemporary Evangelicals' ungodly cooperation with Roman Catholic politicians, pundits, and churchmen effectively denies the central truth that alone can change man and society: Since Christ is the great High Priest, we need no other -- in heaven or on earth.
Today's church needs to get back to its ordained business of proclaiming the precious truth of Christ the high priest - the only hope, the only certainty, for this life and the life to come!
Jesus summed it up: "Without Me you can do nothing."
What does the Bible says about the nature of spiritual power, why we need it, how God imparts it, and why He does it?
Religion and morals, say the pluralists, belong to the private realm and must be kept out of the public realm.
Today growing numbers of "conservative" church leaders engage in a sinful indulgence that scorns Christ, tramples His Word underfoot, and defames their high and serious calling.
The inevitable outcome of postmodernism is pluralism, the notion that a single standard of truth is unthinkable.
A recent hymn, His Robes For Mine, emphatically proclaims two great but neglected Bible doctrines.