The Believers Church Article Analysis

Statement of Intent of the Article

The intent of the article entitled “The Believers’ Church: A “Natural Resource” Worth Conserving” is to make modern believers aware of the importance of saving certain characteristics of the church for preserving the essentials of salvation for future generations.
Summary
The subject article is a bold attempt by Jason Duesing to bring attention to the growing indifference that many evangelicals have toward the natural resource of “biblical doctrines that serve as vehicles to protect and deliver the Gospel to future generations.” The major arguments presented in this article revolve around the indifference of many professed Christians, namely evangelical Christians and ecclesiological relativism. Duesing takes the position that the current indifference exists within a climate he calls “ecclesiological relativism” and presents it as the instigator of the many difficulties present throughout the Christian world. Deusing explains that in this climate of ecclesiological relativism, the indifference that exists does so in the form of what he calls “The Believers’ Church”. The Believers’ Church “is the resource the Bible gives for serving as a
Here Deusing argues that while the Gospel is an end to the means in this current construct, the biblical design for evangelizing is often disregarded. Another assertion that Deusing makes is that the church suffers not from being attacked from without but from within and blames the lack of making the church central to the biblical model of evangelism as the main culprit. Deusing also points out that what often happens with the church in response to this disregarding of biblical constructs is the development of impure churches, which fosters self-destructive behaviors from internal disputes and doctrinal