The Church

If you are here to find "new truth" then you are in the wrong place. God has given us "all Scripture" that we need for life, godliness and doctrine. However if you have come to see truth in a "new way" you may have just happened on a book that will unlock some of the precious truths from God's Word about the Lord's church. The doctrine of the church has been taught for centuries by God's men in the Lord's churches. But equally it has been mis-taught by Protestants and those influenced by them. I well remember the day when the truth of a local, visible church began to come clear to me in Scripture. This truth began to shape my heart and actions for the next several decades. The invisible church theory believed and taught by many left me with a nebulous, empty application of truth. Everywhere I looked I saw the lack of any real importance of the church in christian lives. We see the evidence of it all around us. Churches abandoned, ministries ineffective and a world that is unreached. But when I began to understand the church of Scripture is a visible, local entity, then I began to see the importance of the church in my life and others in new ways. It radically altered my perspective, my practice and my preaching. As I began to grasp the importance of a local church teaching, I began to communicate it to those I taught. Through the years I have seen that the fruit of faithfulness in churches for God's people pay great dividends. No Christian can rightly serve the Lord outside the authority of one of the Lord's churches. E. L. Bynum was one of the men the Lord used through the years to take the teaching of the church from theory to practical reality for me. But not only for me, for many men around the world that read the paper he edited, The Plains Baptist Challenger. He has been a blessing to so very many men and in turn, to the people they have reached with Bible truth. Now in this book you will be able to sit at his feet once again and uncover some of the profound truths of Scripture relating to the church that Jesus built. In this book, The Church: Keepers of the Flame, by E. L. Bynum, you will sit at the feet of a man who for more than 60 years has taught well this doctrine and been used of the Lord to help God's people understand some of the depth of these truths surrounding the Church that Jesus built. I highly recommend this work to you for your understanding of sound doctrine and preparation of a separated life that will be well pleasing to the Lord at His appearing.