MORAL ISSUES CONFRONTING THE CHURCH AND SOCIETY

The Intrinsic Value of Human Life

Suicide: Self-Deliverance or Self-Condemnation?

Euthanasia: The Case of Terri Schiavo

Doctor Assisted Suicide and Mercy Killing

Abortion and the Right to Life

The Bible and Abortion: The Woman’s “Right to Choose” versus the Baby’s “Right to Life” (Part One)

The Bible and Abortion: The Woman’s “Right to Choose” versus the Baby’s “Right to Life” (Part Two)

Death for You, Freedom for Me: What the battle over abortion is really about (by Tyler Young)

Homosexual Behavior and the Bible

The Dignity of Traditional Marriage

So-Called “Gay Marriage” and the Bible

The Sin of Homosexuality

Does the Bible Really Permit Homosexual Practices?

Open Letter to Gay Activists and Answer to a Pro-Gay Pamphlet

Detailed Answers to Arguments Put Forth By a Pro-Gay Theologian Who Has Alleged that Scripture Does Not Condemn Homosexual Behavior

Marriage and Divorce

A Brief Summary of the “Satterfield-Evans Debate” (2003) on “Divorce and Remarriage”

Christian Ethics and Secular Government

A Respectful Answer to President Obama about Biblical Interpretation and the Legitimate Moral Basis for Civil Law

Religion and Civil Law

The Looming Threat of Anarchy: Abounding Lawlessness and Abating Love

Does Resistance to Religious Error Allow the Use of Armed Force?

Should Christians Favor One Political Party Over Another?

Video: “Christianity and Politics” By Phillip Gray (Anaheim, California 2002)

The Youth Must Make Ethical Choices

Immodest Equals Immoral

Christian Piety and the School Prom

You’re Not Going to the Prom? By Allen Webster

Mind Altering Substances and Alcoholic Beverages

May Christians Drink Wine?  By R. W. (Bob) Gray

IMPORTANT DOCTRINAL CONCERNS FOR ALL RELIGIOUS PERSONS

Importance of Doctrine

Do I Love God’s Truth Enough to Break With My Family Religious Tradition If Necessary?

Terror Attacks on the United States Should Have Sounded the Death Knell for Religious and Ideological Pluralism

Chart on “Drawing Lines” of Fellowship (PDF)

Plan of Salvation

Salvation, God’s Free Gift By R. W. Gray

What Can Wash Away My Sins?  A Study of Baptism for the Remission of Sins By R. W. Gray

Defense of Doctrine of Baptism for the Remission of Sins Against Attacks By a Denominational Greek Scholar, Daniel B. Wallace By Lawrence Barclay

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION FOR THE CLASSIC SCHOLARLY EXCHANGE BETWEEN MANTEY AND MARCUS IN THE 1950’S ABOUT THE SO-CALLED “CAUSAL USE OF EIS (“FOR”) IN THE NT

The Biblical Doctrine of the Church

“Upon this Rock I will Build My Church–Period!”

Restoration of the Original Church of Christ is a Biblical Concept By R. W. Gray

The Lord’s Prayer (and Divisions within Christendom) By R. W. Gray

Biblical Interpretation

The Resurrection of Negative Thinking By R. W. Gray

Strict Construction of the Bible Versus the Alternative of Religious Anarchy

Principles of Interpretation and Instrumental Music By R. W. Gray

Which Translation? By R. W. Gray

More On the Translation Controversy–Answer to Objections From Preacher School Professor By R. W. Gray

What Law? By R. W. Gray

Refuting False Doctrine

Can a Christian Fall From Grace? By R. W. Gray

Christ and the Faith of the East

The Battle of Armageddon By R. W. Gray

Some Thoughts on Dispensationalism By R. W. Gray

Sabbath Keeping By R. W. Gray (PDF)

The Lord’s Day (PDF)

DNA Evidence Destroys Mormon’s Claim By Bill Dillon

Critique of Jehovah’s Witnesses (PDF)

Other Issues

Should We Use Wine for the Lord’s Supper?

The Boundless Love of God

Women in the Church

Liberalism in the Church

Sound Doctrine and a Critique of Rubel Shelly

A Concerned Response to a Christian Brother and His Views on Repentance

“Joining the Church”–Let’s Eschew This Sectarian Sibboleth

EVANGELISM AND THE DEFENSE OF BASIC CHRISTIAN TENETS

The Right and Obligation to Defend the Faith

Mission Work (Evangelism) Must also Be Defense Work

Relationship Between Sponsoring Eldership and the Missionary

The Nature of Faith and Its Relation to Reason

“You Ask Me How I Know He Lives?  He Lives…Where? — Care With What We Teach in Song

Biblical Inerrancy

Implications of Inspiration–Inerrancy and a Pattern-type Hermeneutic [Faulkner University Lectureship Montgomery, AL 2013]

Does an Inerrant Bible Really Matter for Doctrinal Purity?

Answering a Brotherhood Critic of the Doctrine of Biblical Inerrancy

Historical Veracity of Scripture

Have they Found the Lost Tomb of Jesus?

Archaeology and the Philistines (PDF)

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ADVANCED STUDIES IN .PDF FORMAT

Epistemic Responsibility and the Gradations of Punishment (Will There Be Degrees of Punishment in the Afterlife?) (PDF)

What Must I Know to Be Saved (and the Destiny of the Unevangelized)(PDF)?

The Universal Moral Law and Special Revelation (PDF)

Are the Same-Sex Sanctions of the “Holiness Code” Normative for Christian Ethics (PDF)?

Is “Close” Good Enough? A Study of How Close to the Original Church of the First Century Must the Contemporary Church Be in Order to be Acceptable to God (PDF)

Isaiah 53 and Predictive Prophecy (PDF)

Does God Know all the Future? An Evaluation of “Open Theism” in the Light of the Gospel of John

Critique of the Documentary Hypothesis of Old Testament Origins

The Origin of the First Gospel

The Making of the King James Version of the Bible

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SERMON OUTLINES YOU CAN USE (in progress…)

Can I Be Sure?

Jesus and the Hurting

When Someone Judges You

Zion’s Call for World Evangelism

Advice for Stateside Hispanic Evangelism

Communicating Christ Cross-culturally

It’s Harvest Time, Where Are the Workers?

For the Love of Life

Marks of a Genuine Gospel Ministry

New Life in Christ

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RESTORATION READINGS AUDIO FILES

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Audio Archives

Bob and Betty Gray of Georgia Outreach Ministries

“Baptism, a Test of Faith” (A Sermon Preached at East Point, Georgia December 19, 1976, P.M. Worship) 

“Whosoever Shall Call Upon the Name of the Lord” (A Sermon Preached at East Point, Georgia April 11, 1982).

“Matthew Chapter 16 and Verse 18, The church of Christ” (March 16, 1977 East Point, Ga. A.M.) 

“Premillennialism #1”

“Christ On David’s Throne” (A Sermon Preached at East Point, Georgia July 27, 1975, P.M. Worship)

“Premillennialism and Matthew 24” (A Sermon Preached at East Point, Georgia August 17, 1975, P.M. Worship)

“At the Cross” (A Sermon Preached at East Point, Georgia September 21, 1975, A.M. Worship)

“Baptism, Its Relation to Salvation” Part One

“Baptism, Its Relation to Salvation” Part Two

“Repentance” (East Point, Ga. October 31, 1982 A.M.)

“Bible Questions and Answers” 1 (Why Do We Limit “responses” to baptisms or restorations? Why can one not marry a divorced man?  If God is real, why are some Christians unhappy?  Why don’t elders anoint the sick with oil as they once did?  Do demons possess people today? What about church discipline and withdrawal of fellowship? What is Wrong with Dancing?)

“Christmas”

“Do You Love the Lord?”

“The Need for Moral Purity” (October 10, 1982 P.M. at East Point, Ga.)

“Every Man According to His Ability”

“Falling From Grace”

“Finally Brethren, Farewell” (March 27, 1984 East Point, Georgia)

“For What Do We Plea?”

“Pattern for Giving”

“Prayer” (June 1, 1975 East Point, Georgia)

“Searching for Our Roots”

“Take Heed, Brethren” (May 27, 1984)

“The Conversion of an Honest Man”

“What Must I Do To Be Saved?”

“What Lies Ahead?”

“Why the church of Christ is Not a Denomination”