October Update

Last month I mentioned a problem I have had with one of my contact lenses. CooperVision no longer makes the Hydrasoft lens I have used for years in my left eye. We tried several Bausch and Lomb lenses which correct for astigmatism and none of them worked as well as the discontinued Hydrasoft lens.

I am happy to report that we found the solution to the problem. It has to do with something called “monovision” which I have used for years. With monovision, one lens is prescribed to see better at a distance, and the other lens is prescribed to see better close-up. All we did is change which eye is for distance and which eye is for reading. It worked perfectly. In fact, I am seeing better now than I have for years. PTL!

In last month’s letter I also mentioned an “internal webpage” for Ethnos360 USA that I have been helping to create. The page is done and now it is a matter of adding content. We have a section for doctrinal papers, a section for book reviews, and a section called Voices from the Past which has articles written by many older theologians. Right now we do not have a lot of content there, but we are adding papers and articles on a regular basis. Our Biblical Resource Group is in the process of revising and updating 22 doctrinal papers that were written a number of years ago for New Tribes Mission. We just finished revising the paper on Dispensational and Covenant Theologies.

There are seven fellows who are members of the Biblical Resource Group. Five live here in Sanford Florida, one works at our training institute in Canada, and one works at our training institute in the United Kingdom. We meet once a week to discuss things like the papers that we are working on. The five who live here meet in my living room and the other two meet with us via video conference on the internet. We wanted to make our group available to field doctrinal questions that come from members of Ethnos360 USA. So we set up an email distribution list for our folks to use and posted the email address on our Biblical Resources page. When anyone sends an email to that address, it comes to all 7 of us to see and respond to. We had our first question the other day which came from the chairman of our Papua New Guinea field. The question related to N.T. Wright and the New Perspective on Paul. A few years ago, I wrote a couple of chapters on that topic in the book Navigating the Minefields of Bible Interpretation. I sent him those two chapters and we had a good chat via email.

BTW, that book was not published in a hardcopy format. But you can find the PDF files here: http://www.sanfordbiblechurch.org/articles_issues.html

Blessings,

Bob

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Religion vs Christianity

There is a vast difference between religion and genuine Christianity.

Religion consists of two letters: D-O.

Christianity consists of four letters: D-O-N-E.

So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit. John 19:30