Legal Standing dan Hak Milik Gereja dalam Hukum Indonesia membahas kedudukan gereja sebagai subyek hukum di Indonesia serta pengaturan hak kepemilikan gereja sebagai badan keagamaan. Menggunakan pendekatan yuridis normatif, buku ini mengulik kerangka hukum yang mengatur status gereja sebagai badan hukum, meskipun tidak secara eksplisit tercantum dalam Undang-Undang Dasar 1945. Buku ini juga mengulas regulasi terkait hak kepemilikan gereja atas aset dan properti, dengan menyoroti tantangan yang muncul dalam implementasinya. Selain itu, buku ini memberikan rekomendasi untuk perbaikan kerangka hukum, termasuk perlindungan hukum yang lebih kuat bagi gereja sebagai subyek hukum dan penataan kembali aturan tentang hak kepemilikan gereja. Sumber bacaan ini ditujukan bagi praktisi hukum, akademisi, dan mereka yang tertarik pada hubungan antara hukum, gereja, dan badan keagamaan di Indonesia.

History of Christian religious sects in Indonesia.

Twas a time when Jesus in his pre-existent form came unto Gideon disguised as an angel. And he could tell that the measure of that Tailor of the Ages was cut out of perfection and was ever so carefully knitted together with absolute flawlessness. Nor can anyone argue that the Bible didn't clearly reveal Him to be the Lord. Now Gideon was afraid he would die over seeing Him since 50,000 men were even slain in the book of 1st Samuel 6:9 just for looking into the arc of the covenant. But our Lord of Always had some amazing plans for that son of Joash, which included fire gushing out of a rock, as well as a fleece drenched with dew, even though the ground stayed dry as a sign. Therefore Gideon was a mighty man of valor even though he struggled with lots of doubt. And every reader herein shall find that his incredible story of his doubts really comes alive here. For above all, that son of Joash realized very well that faltering faith lives upon doubts and that those same doubts either transforms into some insanity or completely stops as soon as soon as anyone passes from doubt to certainty. And that's where he earnestly wanted to be....certain!

What is transgender and gender fluidity? What does God's Word actually say about these issues? How can the gospel be good news for someone experiencing gender dysphoria? How do churches respond? These are questions Christians need to think through and this warm, faithful, careful book will help them do just that.

David F. Wells's award-winning book No Place for Truth - called "a stinging indictment of evangelicalism's theological corruption" by TIME magazine - woke many evangelicals to the fact that their tradition has slowly but surely capitulated to the values and structures of modernity. In God in the Wasteland Wells continues his trenchant analysis of the cultural corruption now weakening the church's thought and witness with the intent of getting evangelicals to rethink their relationship to the "world." Wells argues that the church is enfeebled in part because it has lost its sense of God's sovereignty and holiness. "The fundamental problem in the evangelical world today," says Wells, "is that God rests too inconsequentially upon the church.^

His truth is too distant, his grace is too ordinary, his judgment is too benign, his gospel is too easy, and his Christ is too common." God has become weightless to the extent that the church no longer allows him to shape its character, outlook, and practice. Evangelicals have become heavily invested in the mind-set of modernity - a mind-set that Wells correlates with the biblical concept of the "world." They have become enamored of advanced management and marketing techniques, have blurred the distinctions between Christ and culture, and have largely abandoned their traditional emphasis on divine transcendence in favor of an emphasis on divine immanence. In doing so, they have produced a faith in God that is of little consequence to those who believe. An extensive survey of students at seven evangelical theological seminaries - the results of which are included in this book - indicates that the next generation of evangelical leaders is as caught up in these trends as the laity.^

Arguing that the church's diminished appetite for truth will not be restored without repentance and a fresh encounter with the holy God, Wells makes a compelling case for urgently needed reform in the evangelical church. Without such reform, he says, evangelical faith will be lost in and to the modernity that has invaded the church.