ANZERA looks to encourage “Academic Research that Contributes to the Evangelisation of Aotearoa New Zealand and the World.”
This two day conference on “Reframing Evangelism for the Contemporary World” invites attendees into the academic research on evangelism for “now”. […]
My friends, I want to speak to you about the most important truth you will ever hear. This is not religion. This is not tradition. This is not about becoming a better person. This is about life and death—eternal life or eternal separation from God. […]
Many Christians today have been told that if they believe in eternal security — that a true believer cannot lose their salvation — they must therefore be Calvinists. This claim is simply not true. It comes from confusion about what the Bible actually teaches about salvation, predestination, and the security of the believer. […]
As believers in Christ, one of the most transformative truths we can grasp is our new identity. This isn’t just a change in behaviour or a fresh start—it’s a complete spiritual rebirth that redefines who we are at the core. The Bible teaches that when we come to faith in Jesus, we become new creations, freed from the old life of sin and empowered to live in righteousness. Let’s explore this step by step, drawing from Scripture to see how God has made us new. […]
Introduction: The Most Important Truth – Any Other Gospel Is False and Produces Counterfeit Christianity
In a world filled with religious traditions and doctrines developed over centuries, the single most critical truth we must recover is this: Any gospel other than the one Jesus Christ and His Apostles preached in the first century is a false gospel. It is not a minor variation or a harmless difference of emphasis. According to the Apostle Paul, it is a perversion that produces false converts and builds a counterfeit Christian church—people who believe they are saved but remain under the curse of sin, never truly born again, never justified, and never possessing the life of Christ. […]
One of the most persistent misunderstandings in modern theology is the claim that God replaced Israel with the Church, or that the Church is a separate covenant identity distinct from Israel. Scripture teaches neither.
The Church has not replaced Israel.
The Church is not separate from Israel.
The Church is New Covenant Israel — the continuation and fulfillment of Old Covenant Israel under Messiah. […]
In an age of interfaith summits, global governance, and intensifying spiritual conflict, many students of Bible prophecy are re-examining Revelation 13. The chapter describes a satanic counterfeit trinity: the Dragon (Satan), the Beast from the sea (a blasphemous empire), and the False Prophet from the earth (who enforces worship of the Beast). While historicist interpretation long identified the Papacy as the Antichrist and the Beast as papal Rome, a growing number of observers see a powerful hybrid fulfillment: Islam as the Beast, the Papacy as the Antichrist, and the United Nations (functioning as a global “board of peace”) as the False Prophet. This view integrates historicist insights on the Papacy with futurist observations of current geopolitics and interfaith developments. It does not label every Catholic or Muslim as evil, but examines the systems and their alignment with Scripture. Let’s test it against the text. […]
Leaving the Old Life and Walking in the New
Salvation is far more than the forgiveness of sins. Salvation is a complete transformation of identity, authority, and allegiance. When a person comes to Christ, the old self is truly crucified with Christ as an immediate spiritual reality and gift of grace. However, the revelation and lived experience of this truth is progressive. As the Holy Spirit renews, retrains, and reprograms the believer’s mind, He brings understanding and alignment with what God has already accomplished in Christ. The old life has died, but learning to walk in that reality is worked out over time as the Spirit leads us into truth.
This truth sits at the very centre of biblical Christianity, yet it is often resisted because it confronts our attachment to who we once were. […]
Beloved, today we come to a vital biblical teaching that every believer needs to understand clearly: the difference between an unbeliever who hears the gospel, believes, repents, and is born again by receiving the Holy Spirit at the moment of salvation—and a believer who, after being saved, is baptized by Jesus in the Holy Spirit as a subsequent, empowering experience. […]
We come this morning to the most vital truth in all the universe: the gospel of Jesus Christ. There is only one true gospel—the one preached by the Apostles—and every counterfeit robs people of eternal life, assurance, and peace. I want you to examine your beliefs to make sure they align with what the Apostles taught the early Church, and are not what men have taught since then. I am an Ambassador for Christ. You are going to hear God crying out through me for you to be reconciled to Him, and He is going to give you the faith you need to be able to believe. […]
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