Walking in the Spirit

 If you've spent any time in modern churches you've likely run into some version of the phrase "accept Jesus".  Perhaps you were invited to accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior.  Perhaps it was an invitation to accept Christ.  Maybe you even took someone up on the offer to say the "sinner's prayer" and accept Jesus into your heart.  But do you know where it is in the Bible? The truth is, the Bible never tells us to accept Jesus anywhere.  And when doing research on when this doctrine was first preached, I couldn't find a starting place.  What I did find was a theory or explanation that the term has been used to simplify the Gospel and that it means to "take" the free gift of salvation.  The problem there though is that if you aren't told HOW to be saved, HOW to "take" the free gift of salvation, then dumbing down the salvation message to "accept Jesus" isn't really helpful. So today we will look at what the Bible...

  This post is just a copy and paste of the screenshots of slides and TouTube-generated transcript (with time stamps) from this talk on the last 11 verses of Mark.  If you're struggling like many with whether those last 11 verses should actually be in the Bible,  I encourage you to take a look at the evidence presented. It's easy to cling to the first argument we run across that confirms the beliefs we already hold, but if our desire is for the truth or for the Lord then we owe it to ourselves to dive a little deeper. 0:05      we're going to talk about something today that's fundamental really uh we had to testimony before and a common 0:11      theme in all of her testimonies is signs Miracles and wonders that are moving in 0:17      amongst God's people it's a wonderful proof that God is continuing his ministry the 0:23      ministry of Jesus Christ and um it continues in People Like Us 0:30    ...