Harbison House for Sept 17

Our schedule is basically
1st Sunday - Church co-op
2nd - Minick
3rd - Harbison
4th - Harris
5th - Hughes

Should we start earlier than 10:30? What does everyone think?
9:00?
9:30?
10:00?
10:30?

I would be ok with greetings between 9-9:30, worship starts at 9:30. Better ending time that way, even if it is a little more pressure to get up and going. Good question though, Jerod.

September 10 at Minck home

Sunday we will meet at the Minick household to begin our study of HEBREWS. Come prepared to share a little bit about where you are in your sojourning, and how you can give and receive as we work together to learn from the Word.

Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. I appeal to you, brothers, bear with my word of exhortation, for I have written to you briefly. (Hebrews 13:20-22)

The Function of the Warning Passages in the Structure and Argument of Hebrews

The warning passages in the book of Hebrews have an important role to play in our assessment of the doctrine of perseverence. Whether Hebrews teaches the final perseverence of the saints or whether it can be shown to teach that some genuine Christians will fall away and not be saved on the last day is an important and hotly debated topic.

All good doctrine must begin with exegesis of the biblical text itself

As a preliminary to that debate, this article examines...

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Doctrinal Theme of Hebrews? DTS

300 Bibliotheca Sacra / July–September 1989

The Doctrinal Center of the Book of Hebrews...

Conclusion

The expository sections of Hebrews center on the doctrine of the high priesthood of Christ. The paraenetic sections, on the other hand, are dominated by the pilgrimage motif.³⁹ Two questions pre-sent themselves: Which of the two themes is central to the epistle as a whole? How are the two to be integrated? Attempting to answer the first question is almost futile. The two themes are not ri-vals; they belong together. "The doctrine leads to the exhortations, the exhortations are based on the doctrine."⁴⁰ Nevertheless the au-thor's assertion in 8:1 leads to the conclusion that the high priest-hood of Jesus Christ is the controlling theme of the epistle.As for the second question it has been suggested⁴¹ that the two themes are easily integrated if it is remembered that God's pilgrim people are a "cultic [or priestly] community on the move." These pilgrims on their way to the promised rest are "sanctified," "perfected," and "purified." They have the priestly privilege of access to God's tabernacle through Jesus their High Priest. With such a High Priest they can and should persevere (cf. 2:18; 4:16).In summary, the doctrines of Christ's high priesthood and the pilgrimage of God's people dominate respectively the expository and paraenetic sections.⁴² The theme of Christ as High Priest, how-ever, is central to the epistle as a whole.

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