Not fear or dread or blind compulsion

"... when all is said and done, the true motive for getting things into the right perspective is not fear or dread or blind compulsion.
It is the master principle of love.

People give the Truth top priority because they love it.
Any other motive will fail and eventually the disciple becomes disgruntled and half-hearted.
But when they are love-impulsed, and inspired by what the King has done for our sakes,
they favour his cause gladly, happy to be his bond-servants and heavily weighted in his favour.
They are not dragging themselves after him, resentful and lukewarm.
They follow him with joy and give him their allegiance in the everyday things of the Truth without demur.
Loyal for love’s sake: this is the true perspective."
- Dennis Gillett

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We must see that the Church is a comparatively small company of Jesus' footstep followers, irrespective of sectarian lines; and that the Bible teaches not that these are to look over the battlements of Heaven to all eternity and see all others in torment, but that they are to demonstrate their loyalty unto death and in due time be associated with Messiah in His Millennial Kingdom, which will bless all the families of the earth-the living and the dead, who will then be resurrected.

 - Charles Taze Russell

December 2008 edition of the Christadelphian Magazine

The December 2008 edition of the Christadelphian Magazine is now available. For further details, see the current magazine page. Also, as this is the last edition of 2008, an index of the whole year is also available to download as a PDF (requires free Adobe Acrobat Reader software).

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For all their loyalty and conviction that he was the promised Messiah, the apostles too had a limited understanding of the nature of his work as Saviour. They too were expecting him to take the throne of David and rule as king. Consequently, it was not only the people who were confused by the Lord’s reaction to the desire to make him a king. <<

> Our faith is put to the test as we too are assailed in the circumstances of life by the storms and tempests that flesh is heir to. In the midst of our adversities we can also be assailed by doubts and uncertainties.<