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A Case for Church Membership
Church membership could be considered a relic of a bygone age. Many churches today have abandoned the idea and opted for a more informal association where those who attend a fellowship for any length of time are considered part of the church. This article seeks to demonstrate the case for membership from the Scripture. It is true that the way we do membership—membership class, elder interview, etc—is not explicit in Scripture but these are ways in which we seek to…
Requirements for Membership at Fairview: A Brief Statement on Open Communion
For a biblical presentation of church membership, click here. The True Church When a person believes the gospel—entrusting to Christ their life and death—they become part of the church. The church is the gospel made visible. The church consists of “the called-out ones” (this is the meaning of the Greek word ecclesia which is translated “church”). The members of a church are also called saints, meaning holy or set apart to the Lord. The church is Christ’s body, all its…
63 Years Serving God in the Fairview Community
Fairview Baptist Church met in the community of Fairview from 1960-2023. The last service at the original location was May 21, 2023. This brief history was shared that Sunday. The Beginning of a Church in Fairview In 1930 a new missionary work began in Alberta. Two pastors, Morley Hall and Howard Phillips led their churches to form a new mission society to plant fundamental Baptist churches in Alberta. Morley was educated at Toronto Bible College (now Toronto Baptist Seminary) and…
Remember
This Sunday marks the last Sunday that we will be worshiping as a church at 230 – 78 Ave SE. For the last 63 years Christians have gathered in that location to worship Jesus Christ. Starting Sunday, May 28th, we will move to a larger facility at 3311 Centre St N which has also been the home of Christian worship in the past. As we look forward and give thanks to God we take time to remember his faithfulness in…
A New Testament Case for the Christian Magistrate to Enforce Biblical Law in Accordance With the Gospel
Summary: In 1 Timothy Paul urges the church to pray for kings and rulers so that they would be converted, legislate according to the law of God, thus bringing peace to the church and serving the advance of the gospel. In Paul’s first letter to Timothy, he opens his letter by addressing teachers who do not understand the proper use of God’s law (vv. 3–7). In response, Paul argues, not for antinomianism, but for the proper use of the law.…
Gratitude: 5 Ways to Thank God for His Provision
On November 16, 2022 we sent out an email with a call to give generously. A few days prior we had voted as a congregation to approve the conditional sale of a new church facility at 3311 Centre Street N. This marked a milestone as it had been more than a year in which we had been earnestly praying and seeking a new location that would contain the growing family at Fairview. As I mentioned in that email, we were…
Gospel Primer
The following is the afterword to our recently published outreach booklet, “The Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Mark.” The gospel of Mark ends abruptly. The women who came to anoint Jesus’ body were met by heavenly angels showing them an empty tomb. The tomb was empty because Jesus had risen from the dead. The women were stunned and astonished—a natural response when seeing an angel and evidence of Jesus’ resurrection! The rest of the New Testament records how the…
Hard Work: A Needed Christian Virtue
In 2020, headlines concerning COVID-19 were replaced with stories about George Floyd, riots (aka, fiery but mostly-peaceful protests), and Black Lives Matter. Just as technocracy boomed in the COVID era, cultural Marxism had a similar surge. With the battle against “whiteness” going mainstream, efforts continue to decolonize—or more accurately, de-Christianize—western culture. One example of this was in 2020, when the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture produced an online guide to expose the aspects and assumptions of…
Drag Queen Story Hour
Many have watched the footage of Derek Reimer protesting a Drag Queen Story Hour at Seton Library. Derek was removed from the room during the event but stayed in the library to speak about the evils of what was happening inside, warning everyone about God’s judgment, and calling them to repentance in Jesus. Derek was later arrested and was held in the Calgary Remand Center until late Monday evening (March 6). Derek runs a street ministry in Calgary with many…
Culture of Beauty
Culture is a word we use often yet rarely consider its meaning. The English word culture, is derived from the Latin word cultura which speaks of “cultivating, tending, caring, tilling, and honoring.” We see the immediate application to farming and the caring for the land to produce a harvest—the goal of cultivation. The Latin word cultus is also part of the same word group and overlaps in meaning but focuses on the cultivation of customs of worship and veneration. This…
Online Streaming Act
The Online Streaming Act (aka Bill C-11 or “An Act to amend the Broadcasting Act and to make related and consequential amendments to other Acts”) has garnered attention in the news and in the Christian world. It’s been dubbed by critics as a censorship bill with some warning that it will fundamentally change the availability of information in Canada through the internet and the many platforms that depend upon it. You can read the bill for yourself here, but how…
To Sell or Not to Sell…
…that is the question. In the processes of selling our facility, questions have arisen on who and who not to sell it to. Would we sell to a group that differs with us in doctrine? Would we sell to an investor to build condos? Would we sell to those who are affirming of the LGBTQ+ agenda? Would we sell to Jews? or to Muslims? Of course, we all agree that our preference is to sell our facility to another group…