If the longing of your heart is to experience church-life New Testament style, then this booklet is written for you. It describes some of the exciting discoveries that the people of Milpitas Bible Fellowship made in the summer of 1996, that radically changed their whole perspective on what it means to be the church.
Read More...Monthly Archives:: September 2009
New Testament Giving
If it is true that tithing was part of the Old Covenant worship of Israel, and has no practical bearing upon New Covenant Christians, the question naturally surfaces, “what does the New Testament actually teach about giving?” Surely the place for New Covenant believers to begin in their quest to understand God’s revealed will regarding giving is in the New Testament Scriptures.
Read More...Biblical Eldership
Who does God want to lead His church? How is the church supposed to be governed? What is an elder and how is he related to a pastor? What is an elder supposed to do? How can we know who God has called as an elder? These are all important questions that need answering if we are to govern our church according to the will of God. Thankfully, the Bible has not left us in the dark in these important matters!
Read More...The Ministry of Deacons
“You know, Lord, how I serve you with great emotional fervor in the limelight. You know how eagerly I speak for you at a Women’s Club. You know how I effervesce when I promote a fellowship group. You know my genuine enthusiasm at a Bible study. But how would I react, I wonder, if you pointed to a basin of water and asked me to wash the calloused feet of a bent and wrinkled old woman day after day, month after month, in a room where nobody saw and nobody knew.”
Read More...One Church’s Attempt To Obey God’s Word
What would it be like for a church to take seriously its conviction that it must derive its practices solely from the Bible? In some ways the members of Milpitas Bible Fellowship (MBF), a small, non-denominational Bible church located in Milpitas, California, have found the answer to that question.
Read More...Making Disciples
Jesus commanded us to make disciples of all the nations.
Read More...God’s Book
We believe that the Bible is God’s Word.
Read More...Sarah Edwards
My very dear child, What shall I say! A holy and good God has covered us with a dark cloud. O that we may kiss the rod, and lay our hands upon our mouths! The Lord has done it. He has made me adore his goodness, that we had [your father] so long. But my… Read more »
Read More...Jim Elliott
He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. Jim Elliott
Read More...George Mueller
Yes, my Father, the times of my darling wife are in Thy hands. Thou wilt do the very best thing for her, and for me, whether life or death. If it may be, raise up yet again my precious wife – Thou are able to do it, though she is so ill; but howsoever Thou… Read more »
Read More...William Booth
Some men’s passion is for gold. Some men’s passion is for art. Some men’s passion is for fame. My passion is for the souls of men! William Booth
Read More...Charles H. Spurgeon 3
If God lights the candle, none can blow it out. Charles H. Spurgeon
Read More...William Gurnall
Christ needs take no other revenge on a soul for refusing him . . . than to condemn such a one to have its own desire. William Gurnall
Read More...Rowland Hill
If an unholy man were to get to heaven he would feel like a hog in a flower garden. Rowland Hill
Read More...C. S. Lewis 2
Joy is the serious business of heaven. C. S. Lewis
Read More...Richard Baxter
Heaven will pay for any loss we may suffer to gain it; but nothing can pay for the loss of heaven. Richard Baxter
Read More...Charles Haddon Spurgeon 2
I bless my Lord and Master He has given me a gospel which I can take to dead sinners, a gospel which is available for the vilest of the vile. Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Read More...Richard Sibbes
It requires not only a power, but an almighty power, to raise the heart of man to believe. Richard Sibbes
Read More...Horatius Bonar
Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die; another’s life, another’s death, I stake my whole eternity. Horatius Bonar
Read More...Thomas Watson 2
Faith is to prayer what the feather is to the arrow. Thomas Watson
Read More...Augustus Toplady 2
If God gives you St. Paul’s faith, you will soon have St. James’s works. Augustus Toplady
Read More...Martin Luther
The true living faith, which the Holy Spirit instills into the heart, simply cannot be idle. Martin Luther
Read More...John Wesley 2
The church has nothing to do but to save souls; therefore spend and be spent in this work. It is not your business to speak so many times, but to save as many souls as you can; to bring as many sinners as you possibly can to repentance. John Wesley
Read More...John Wesley 1
I desire to have both heaven and hell ever in my eye, while I stand on this isthmus of life, between two boundless oceans. John Wesley
Read More...Thomas Watson 1
Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the godless is a night that has no sunrise. Thomas Watson
Read More...Thomas Brooks
The great weight of eternity hangs upon the small wire of time. Thomas Brooks
Read More...Augustus Toplady 1
My name from the palms of his hands eternity will not erase; impressed on His heart it remains, in marks of indelible grace. Yes, I to the end shall endure, as sure as the earnest is given; more happy, but not more secure the glorified spirits in heaven. Augustus Toplady
Read More...William Secker
Though Christians be not kept altogether from falling, yet they are kept from falling altogether. William Secker
Read More...John Calvin
The ground of the discrimination that exists among men is the sovereign will of God and that alone; but the ground of damnation to which the reprobate are consigned is sin and sin alone. John Calvin
Read More...C. S. Lewis 1
Amiable agnostics will talk cheerfully about man’s search for God. For me, they might as well talk about the mouse’s search for a cat. C. S. Lewis
Read More...John Arrowsmith
In whatever dunghill God’s jewels be hid, election will both find them out there and fetch them out from hence. John Arrowsmith
Read More...Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1
The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem. Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Read More...George Whitefield
Let my name be forgotten, let me be trodden under the feet of all men, if Jesus may thereby be glorified! George Whitefield
Read More...John Piper
The chief end of man is to glorify God by enjoying Him forever. John Piper
Read More...Revelation 5:9-10
And they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are You to take the book and to break its seals; for You were slain, and purchased for God with Your blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to our God; and they… Read more »
Read More...Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. Galatians 2:20
Read More...2 Corinthians 4:16-18
Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which… Read more »
Read More...2 Corinthians 4:6
For God, who said, ‘Light shall shine out of darkness,’ is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. 2 Corinthians 4:6
Read More...1 Corinthians 1:30-31
But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption, so that, just as it is written, ‘LET HIM WHO BOASTS, BOAST IN THE LORD’. 1 Corinthians 1:30-31
Read More...John 3:36
He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him. John 3:36
Read More...Isaiah 53:5-6
But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed. All of us like sheep have gone astray, ech of us has turned to his own way; bt the LORD has caused the iniquity of us… Read more »
Read More...Jeremiah 32:40-41
I will make an everlasting covenant with them that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; and I will put the fear of Me in their hearts so that they will not turn away from Me. I will rejoice over them to do them good and will faithfully plant them in… Read more »
Read More...Jeremiah 31:33-34
But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the LORD, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. They will not teach again, each man his… Read more »
Read More...Psalm 73:25-26
Whom have I in heaven but You? And besides You, I desire nothing on earth. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. Psalm 73:25-26
Read More...Psalm 16:11
You will make known to me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; in Your right hand there are pleasures forever. Psalm 16:11
Read More...Romans 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. Romans 1:16
Read More...Romans 8:32
He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? Romans 8:32
Read More...Romans 12:1-2
Therefore I urge you brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of… Read more »
Read More...Philippians 2:3
Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others. Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus. Philippians 2:3
Read More...2 Timothy 4:1-4
I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction. For the time will come when they… Read more »
Read More...1 Timothy 2:5
For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus 1 Timothy 2:5
Read More...Ephesians 2:4-5
But God, being rich in mercy because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved) Ephesians 2:4-5
Read More...1 Peter 1:14
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior 1 Peter 1:14
Read More...1 Peter 2:4-5
And coming to Him as to a living stone which has been rejected by men, but is choice and precious in the sight of God, you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 1 Peter… Read more »
Read More...1 Peter 2:2
like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation 1 Peter 2:2
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