TWO STRANDS IN THE BIBLEAjith FernandoNational Director, Youth for Christ/Sri Lanka The primary aim in descriptions of the end-times in the Bible is to help us live faithfully in the present. The Bible presents various strands of end-time events couched in figurative language which are sometimes difficult to harmonize—resulting in numerous …
ARMINIAN? CALVINIST? I, a Methodist, made a surprise discovery of theologically likeminded folk while ministering recently at Welch College (a college of the Freewill Baptists). I was especially enriched by conversations with its President Matthew Pinson who edited the Zondervan book Four Views on Eternal Security. Like me they have a sense of kinship …
Talk given at the Amsterdam 2000 Conference for Itinerant Evangelists in July 2000 THE EVANGELIST PROCLAIMS THAT JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONLY WAY AND CALLS FOR A RESPONSE OF FAITH Ajith Fernando Affirming the uniqueness of Christ is one of the most urgent needs in the church today. Pluralism is the dominant …
May 2010 GOSPEL BASICS: CHRIST IS THE ANSWER Ajith Fernando As we present the gospel to youth, we find that they are looking for answers to many questions. We believe that through Christ they can find the only truly fulfilling answer to these questions, and therefore we seek to address these …
April 2003 Bible Trail Conference for Youth of Singapore YFC TALK ONE THE UNIQUENESS OF CHRIST Affirming the uniqueness of Christ is one of the most urgent needs in the church today. Pluralism is the dominant approach to religion in most countries of the world. And pluralism does not respond well to …
April 2003 Bible Trail Conference for Youth of Singapore YFC TALK THREE CONFLICTING VIEWS OF GOD I remember a time when the bumper sticker, “Smile, God loves you!” was very popular in the West. It was about 25 years ago, and Christians assumed that people knew what they meant when they used …
June 2011 WE HAVE WHAT THEY ARE LOOKING FOR Ajith Fernando For over 25 years my wife and I have been labouring to get people to understand the meaning of the Christian life so that, receiving God’s grace and love, they could be holy, loving and joyful people. This has been a …
DOES THE NEW TESTAMENT TEACH THE DEITY OF CHRIST? A book of this nature will be incomplete without at least a brief note on whether the New Testament really teaches that Jesus is God. We have already implied that it does when looking at evidence for the supremacy of Christ. But I have encountered …
Wonderful News The life of the saved satisfies humanity’s deepest yearnings. The gospel is the wonderful news that the supreme and holy God who created the universe loves the world and has a plan for it. When humanity, God’s highest creation, rebelled against him, the world was subjected to frustration and humans merited eternal …
From my book Sharing the Truth in Love. Ajith DEGREES OF RESPONSIBILITY There is a lot we do not know about Hell. So we must be agnostic about a lot of the details of what is happening there. An important point in this discussion is that the Bible teaches that there will …