Category: Christian Social Witness

Christian Social Witness of Roger Harned and other Talk of JESUS .com authorsChristian Social Witness has increasingly become about SOCIAL MEDIA platforms & sharing live preaching & local Bible studies virtually. Stories in this category address 21st c. Christian issues of communication. Here’s where I need your help:
Would you email Roger@talkofJesus.com and tell us how, when & especially where you TALK to others online? Thanks for your COMMENTS & ideas. – Roger

  • Families of Faith: Preacher’s Kids – 1

    Families of Faith: Preacher’s Kids – 1

    Our ‘Father,’

    Our FATHER..,” we pray. And Jesus said,

    I and the Father are one.

    https://talkofjesus.com/father-the-hour-is-come-2/

    Does that make us ‘preacher’s kids?”

    Qualifications to Teach God’s Word

    It’s a long list of higher standards to which we should hold the leaders of our church. I do not even qualify.

    Do you? How about your church leaders? Does your pastor qualify continually?

    gold fish in bowl

    Whether hatched before all as a Preacher’s Kid (P.K.) or thrown into the bowl of belief as one called to Christ, the world looks on ‘christians’ with high expectations of our faith and witness.

    In deed and in witness we are like: Preacher’s Kids, Elder’s Kids, Deacon’s Kids.

    Roger@talkofJesus.com

    Summer Scriptural Series RERUN

    This 3-part series which did not run consecutively during June & July 2014 will run three consecutive days in the year of our Lord 2021.

    It includes familiar Scriptures some churches use for choosing leadership. The HIGH STANDARD of Scripture seems unattainable.

    Contemporary churches could find NO LEADERSHIP, but for the continuing grace of Jesus Christ.

    Scripture

    1 Timothy 1:

    Original talkofJesus.com post

    Original post June 21,2014 – Topic: a true child in the faith
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  • The Christian Hypocrite?

    The Christian Hypocrite?

    Worship & Hypocrisy?

    The family rushed into the church building catching the last praise song before the sermon. LOVE GOD, LOVE PEOPLE. They applauded. (In fact, they noted, it was the colorful writing imprinted on the wall of the building that confirmed this love.)

    He loves us. We love Him. Such a general good feeling we can take out of here to the world! (Applause!)

    But then, upon heading out the door back into the world whey wondered: “Who is this ‘He’ of whom they sing? Was ‘his‘ “Name” ever mentioned? (For I didn’t see it past the darkness on their wall.)

    OH THIS IS FREEDOM..LOVE IS WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT
    LOVE GOD, LOVE PEOPLE
    • The worship song is popular hit on ‘Christian’ radio. Is its lyric and message so ambiguous that the world won’t recognize it?
    • Are the songs so accommodating and preaching so inclusive that young ‘christians’ will rarely hear “Lord JESUS” in worship?

    The challenges of hypocrisy to the church continues as we wear the masks of new trends in worship.

    Yes, the faces change, but so do our masks.

    Hypocrisy OR Acknowledging Sins?

    Scriptures

    Matthew 10

    John 8

    .. go, and from now on sin no more.”

    v. 11
    A partial list from original post linked below:
    • Fathers abandoning our children? Some of us are guilty.
    • Murdering a child by abortion? Some of us are guilty.
    • Divorce? Some of us are guilty.

    Original talkofJesus.com post

    from April 4, 2014 – Topic: Hypocrisy or Sin confessed?
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  • The Christian Like Jesus?

    The Christian Like Jesus?

    If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household.

    Matthew 10:20

    Jesus & Christians: Hypocrites

    Do you realize that the religious leaders of Jerusalem called Jesus a hypocrite?

    You are NOT the Son of God, they accused. And the world accuses any who strongly associate with Jesus Christ of this same hypocrisy. Wolves preying upon the sheep of Christ taught with tenderness and little warning of a 21st century ravenous appetite of the world to dethrone Christ Jesus.

    Scripture

    Matthew 10

    Original talkofJesus.com post:

    Original post April 3, 2014 – Topic: Hypocrisy
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