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| <title>Church in Oklahoma City Statement of Our Perspective</title> | |
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| <p align="center"><img src="graphics/chOKCnam.gif" alt="The church in Oklahoma City, a Bible-believing and genuine Christian believer-receiving church. (3480 bytes)" WIDTH="561" HEIGHT="49"><br> | |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="index.asp"><img src="graphics/okcHome.gif" border="0" alt="Home Page" | |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="chOKCOB.asp"><img src="graphics/okcPADS.gif" border="0" alt="Parenthood--A Divine Stewardship" WIDTH="119" HEIGHT="34"></a></td> | |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="chOKCOB.asp"><img src="graphics/okcOB.gif" border="0" alt="Our Belief" | |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="chOKCOM.asp"><img src="graphics/okcOM.gif" border="0" alt="Our Mission" | |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="chOKCOS.asp"><img src="graphics/okcOS.gif" border="0" alt="Our Standing" | |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="chOKCOH.asp"><img src="graphics/okcOH.gif" border="0" alt="Our Hope" | |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="chOKCgGPL.asp"><img src="graphics/okcOG.gif" border="0" | |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="chOKCCCL.asp"><img src="graphics/okcCCL.gif" border="0" | |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="chOKCCtR.asp"><img src="graphics/okcCtR.gif" border="0" | |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="chOKCMSCC.asp"><img src="graphics/okcMC.gif" border="0" | |
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| alt="Reading Schedule through the Recovery Version New Testament and Footnotes" | |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="chOKCMR.asp"><img src="graphics/okcMRA.gif" border="0" | |
| alt="Announcements and Morning Revival Schedule" WIDTH="119" HEIGHT="34"></a></td> | |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="chOKCLL.asp"><img src="graphics/okcLL.gif" border="0" alt="Life Links" | |
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| <td valign="top"><p align="center"><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="4"><b>Our | |
| Perspective</b></font></p> | |
| <p><font face="Arial" color="#000099">In coming to the truth of the Bible, we are guided | |
| primarily by three things.</font></p> | |
| <p><font face="Arial" color="#990033"><strong>First, we understand that there is a single | |
| economy of God to be seen throughout the Bible.</strong></font> <font face="Arial" color="#000099">This economy centers on God's dispensing Himself through His Trinity into | |
| His elect. In the Old Testament this economy is seen in many types, shadows, and figures. | |
| In the New Testament this economy is presented in the clear words of the apostles. While | |
| based on the merits of Christ's person and on His work in accomplishing our redemption | |
| judicially, God's New Testament economy has the fuller goal of saving man organically, | |
| that is, by and with the eternal life of the Triune God. By this life God's elect are | |
| genuinely begotten of God, transformed, and finally glorified. The consummation of this | |
| economy is the union of God and man for eternity in the New Jerusalem.</font></p> | |
| <p><font face="Arial" color="#990033"><strong>Second, the centrality of God's economy in | |
| our understanding of the Bible is based upon the assumption that God can be known and | |
| experienced subjectively, not just worshipped and appreciated objectively.</strong> </font><font face="Arial" color="#000099">God does not intend to remain aloof from mankind in general | |
| nor from each of His believers in particular; rather, as evidenced by His incarnation and | |
| by His coming as the Spirit, He desires to be intimately and personally related to His | |
| elect. The long history of Christian spirituality, though sometimes troubled by excesses, | |
| is fundamentally correct in its desire to know and experience God.</font></p> | |
| <p><font face="Arial" color="#990033"><strong>Finally, we believe that the divine message | |
| of the Bible may transcend the intention of its human writers.</strong></font><font face="Arial" color="#000099"> Holding to the long-standing hermeneutical tradition of the | |
| Christian church, we accept the allegorical method for understanding the Bible, | |
| particularly its Old Testament, as a valid principle of interpretation.</font></p> | |
| <p> </p> | |
| <p> </p> | |
| <p align="center"><font color="#000099" face="Arial" size="2"><i>Quoted from </i><a href="http://www.lsm.org/a&c/welcome.html"><u>Affirmation & Critique</u></a> <i>quarterly,<br> | |
| © Living Stream Ministry. Used by permission.</i></font></td> | |
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| <td align="center" width="400"><img src="graphics/bulletL.gif" alt="left arrow (887 bytes)"><img src="graphics/bulletL.gif" alt="left arrow (887 bytes)"><img src="graphics/bulletL.gif" alt="left arrow (887 bytes)"> <font face="Arial" color="#006600"><big><a href="mailto:letters@churchinokc.org">Write us!</a> We welcome all inquiries that spring | |
| from a sincere desire to know the truth.</big><br> | |
| <i>Website comments? Email the <a href="mailto:webmaster@churchinokc.org">Webmaster</a>.</i></font></td> | |
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| <p align="center"><font face="Arial" color="#990000" size="2"><i>This page and all | |
| contents are Copyright © 1998-2000 The Church in Oklahoma City (unless otherwise | |
| indicated). All Rights Reserved.</i></font></p> | |
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| <p align="center"><font color="#000099" size="2" face="Arial"><i>Scripture quoted from </i>The | |
| New Testament<i>, Recovery Version © 1985, 1991 Living Stream Ministry and Witness Lee. | |
| Used by permission.</i></font></p> | |
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| <p align="center"><font color="#800040" face="Arial" size="1"><i>Online design by <a href="mailto:webmaster@churchinokc.org">E. C. Gruhler III,</a> --Copyright © 1998-2000--All | |
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