| The Berea School of Theology and Ministries on Internet (Ecumenical) |
The aim started in 2003 under the name “Berea Bible Class” on Internet, for all those eager to
search the Holy Scriptures, turning the Christian Truth into terms of life, and the use of the Word of
God to light and feed the fire of devotion.
The Jews in “Berea” (Macedonia) applied seriously to the study of the Word of God, the Bible,
which they preached. They not only heard the apostle Paul preach on the Sabbath, but daily
searching the Holy Scriptures, and compared what they read with the facts related to them. From
here our name, “The Berea School of Theology on Internet” open to all searchers of the Truth, and
believers in Jesus Christ.
The great need today, even more than ever, is to gain real knowledge of the text of the Holy
Scriptures, and in this, our aim is being laid. The urge for searching the Holy Scriptures, the Bible, is
mostly needed for spiritual life and power in our modern society where church practise is rapidly
declining in our Western world. A return to the Christian Truth through the teaching ministry is at
first more needed than baptising as much infants as possible as some do, or marrying divorced
people as much as possible as some even more prefer to do. Without Christian knowledge, people
simply return to unbelief as soon as their children are baptised, and divorced couples married again,
simply because they want to embellish their joyful occasions with a religious ritual, nothing more or
less. They simply want to keep up to familial tradition, and not obey the intent of the Christian
Church. This is not the ministry of the Church of Christ, acting as it were like a “familial and relation
office”. The role of the Christian Churches is much more than adding religious flavour to familial
mundane festivities around the birth of a child, or marrying the divorced again. Church leaders are
no actors on such playgrounds, and are forbidden in responding to the offer and the demand of the
worldly inclined. Christian leaders are Christ’s representatives on earth, and should literally obey
God’s Word. Not doing so, our clergy fail, and cannot be called “Old Catholic, Evangelicals, etc”.
The Church of Christ has a mission in yesterday, today and tomorrow’s world of ours. Before
administering the sacraments of the Church, as seven in Catholicism, two in Protestantism, every
minister (the duly ordained and consecrated) should first think of preaching Jesus Christ with the
view of individual conversion. Only every true believer in our Lord Jesus Christ has salvation, which
is given to him or her by grace. The Word of God teaches the eternal security of all who have
submitted themselves to Jesus Christ by faith, and as such have received eternal life, the gift of God
in Christ Jesus our Lord. From here, Christian initiations as baptism may take place.
Before any sacrament is conferred, we, church leaders need to teach the “Word of God”. New
religion and modern theology, all deny the gospel of Jesus Christ. The Cross of Jesus Christ
separates the true believer from the flesh, the modern religious forms, psychological self-
improvement, separating him or her to God only. Knowing that Christ is all, glorifying in Him with no
more confidence in the works of the flesh, the believer worships by the Spirit of God, and no longer
with human fancies incorporating our liturgies. The indwelling Spirit fills the heart and mind with
Christ, glorifies Him Lord of all, where true worship is the result. Only among the regenerated
(converted) parents, baptism of their infants is possible, the Sacrament of Confirmation, the Holy
Eucharist, Holy Matrimony, and Holy Orders are accessible.
The doctrine of Jesus Christ does not fear enquiry. Those who are truly dignified in Christ, and
likely to be more and more so, who make the Holy Scriptures their life’s pattern and rule, consulting
them accordingly, are furthering the purpose of God through Jesus Christ for mankind. May all
students of the Word become like those of Berea, receiving the word with readiness of mind,
searching the Holy Scriptures daily.
© March 2009 Archbishop Philippe Laurent De Coster of LORCCF.
search the Holy Scriptures, turning the Christian Truth into terms of life, and the use of the Word of
God to light and feed the fire of devotion.
The Jews in “Berea” (Macedonia) applied seriously to the study of the Word of God, the Bible,
which they preached. They not only heard the apostle Paul preach on the Sabbath, but daily
searching the Holy Scriptures, and compared what they read with the facts related to them. From
here our name, “The Berea School of Theology on Internet” open to all searchers of the Truth, and
believers in Jesus Christ.
The great need today, even more than ever, is to gain real knowledge of the text of the Holy
Scriptures, and in this, our aim is being laid. The urge for searching the Holy Scriptures, the Bible, is
mostly needed for spiritual life and power in our modern society where church practise is rapidly
declining in our Western world. A return to the Christian Truth through the teaching ministry is at
first more needed than baptising as much infants as possible as some do, or marrying divorced
people as much as possible as some even more prefer to do. Without Christian knowledge, people
simply return to unbelief as soon as their children are baptised, and divorced couples married again,
simply because they want to embellish their joyful occasions with a religious ritual, nothing more or
less. They simply want to keep up to familial tradition, and not obey the intent of the Christian
Church. This is not the ministry of the Church of Christ, acting as it were like a “familial and relation
office”. The role of the Christian Churches is much more than adding religious flavour to familial
mundane festivities around the birth of a child, or marrying the divorced again. Church leaders are
no actors on such playgrounds, and are forbidden in responding to the offer and the demand of the
worldly inclined. Christian leaders are Christ’s representatives on earth, and should literally obey
God’s Word. Not doing so, our clergy fail, and cannot be called “Old Catholic, Evangelicals, etc”.
The Church of Christ has a mission in yesterday, today and tomorrow’s world of ours. Before
administering the sacraments of the Church, as seven in Catholicism, two in Protestantism, every
minister (the duly ordained and consecrated) should first think of preaching Jesus Christ with the
view of individual conversion. Only every true believer in our Lord Jesus Christ has salvation, which
is given to him or her by grace. The Word of God teaches the eternal security of all who have
submitted themselves to Jesus Christ by faith, and as such have received eternal life, the gift of God
in Christ Jesus our Lord. From here, Christian initiations as baptism may take place.
Before any sacrament is conferred, we, church leaders need to teach the “Word of God”. New
religion and modern theology, all deny the gospel of Jesus Christ. The Cross of Jesus Christ
separates the true believer from the flesh, the modern religious forms, psychological self-
improvement, separating him or her to God only. Knowing that Christ is all, glorifying in Him with no
more confidence in the works of the flesh, the believer worships by the Spirit of God, and no longer
with human fancies incorporating our liturgies. The indwelling Spirit fills the heart and mind with
Christ, glorifies Him Lord of all, where true worship is the result. Only among the regenerated
(converted) parents, baptism of their infants is possible, the Sacrament of Confirmation, the Holy
Eucharist, Holy Matrimony, and Holy Orders are accessible.
The doctrine of Jesus Christ does not fear enquiry. Those who are truly dignified in Christ, and
likely to be more and more so, who make the Holy Scriptures their life’s pattern and rule, consulting
them accordingly, are furthering the purpose of God through Jesus Christ for mankind. May all
students of the Word become like those of Berea, receiving the word with readiness of mind,
searching the Holy Scriptures daily.
© March 2009 Archbishop Philippe Laurent De Coster of LORCCF.
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