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Welcome to a site devoted to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It’s my desire that the Lord would use these pages to proclaim His Gospel, to invite people to put their trust in Him, to build His Ekklesia, and to warn of false gospels, false messiahs, and counterfeit religious systems.
About the Editor (updated 5/6/2022)
My name is Jim Baumgaertel. I live in Port Orchard, Washington State, USA with my wife, Kim. We have four adult children and four grandchildren. After 400 years of church history on this continent (Race and Racism) and after the craziness of recent years, we recently decided to become a part of Sinclair Missionary Baptist Church in Bremerton. Our previous church, of eighteen years, dissolved early in the pandemic. We had been a part of an assembly, Harbor Bible Church, that met in a rented building. Our church had a plurality of leadership with no professional clergymen. The elders and other brothers shared in the teaching. We have always met informally with other believers and enjoy visiting other church families. House churches are very biblical. I advocate church fellowships that have a true plurality of leadership whether they meet in houses or other buildings. For more of my testimony please see my “Introduction” or “The Summer of 76“. For more insight into my understanding of scripture please see my “Statement of Faith“. The Statement of Faith is subject to change as I pray that I would continue to be “transformed by the renewing of” my mind (Romans 12:2) as I trust in Jesus, by the work of the Holy Spirit, according to God’s Word, the Bible. I want the Bible to be the standard of Truth, not mine or anyone’s “Statement of Faith”!
This website was first posted in May of 1998. Much of the material on this site is based on a presentation I was giving to groups and individuals from about 1987 to 1994.
But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ…”
Philippians 3:7-8
Introduction
I am a retired engineer and formerly worked in a shipyard. Before the shipyard, I was in the Navy and served on submarines. It was my privilege to help lead our local church assembly for six years, until 2020. I teach home schooled students with my wife. [email me]
Kim worked very hard, by the grace of God, to home school our children. We are grateful that one is a PhD physicist, another is an engineer, another speaks Moroccan Arabic, and another is a nurse. We are very blessed to have our daughter-in-law, and three sons-in-law.
I was raised in a protestant home. About the time I was in junior high school I stopped going to church services. From then on I variously called my self an agnostic or atheist. In college, I began to wonder if there was a God. During that time and for a year after graduation I “investigated” Mormonism and tried Transcendental Meditation. But it was during the time my first wife divorced me that the Lord Jesus miraculously intervened in my life. I became a child of God and began to follow the Lord Jesus Christ the summer of 1976 in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
Kim and I were married in 1981. I know that Jesus loves me because the Bible tells me so. One way our Lord has blessed me with His love is by bringing Kim into my life… and my children and grandchildren. Grateful for our Family
Since I became a Christian, I’ve fellowshipped in a variety of institutional church organizations: Assembly of God, Calvary Chapels, Community Bible Fellowship and others. But throughout that time, the blessing of God in New Testament Fellowship always came through relationships and meetings in homes and the intertwining of lives… in spite of the institutional “churchianity” structures. We are grateful for Biblical house churches and for all assemblies that follow a New Testament pattern. For sincere, true New Testament Fellowship, I am grateful to God. I don’t have to agree with everything to fellowship with someone or a particular group of believers. Nothing is more important than who Jesus is and what is the Gospel that saves. Salvation is by grace through faith alone in Christ alone.
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To Anything I Say
You have nothing to fear from me. I have no constituency; no following. Even my closest friends don’t take me seriously! I have no power, so there’s no need to pay any attention to what I say. Unless, of course… I say something that happens to be Biblical. Then I encourage you to agree and respond to it, not because I said it, but because it’s Biblical! The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.
Everything that I might criticize someone else for, I have been guilty of sometime in my life to some degree.
“… Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.” Philippians 1:18
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Most of the articles on this site are written by me. There are several reviews of other peoples’ books or articles, written by me, both critical and supportive. I’ve tried to make it clear when articles I’ve posted are written by someone else.
Feel free to distribute any of my articles electronically or in printed form, whether you agree with me or are wanting to refute me. Either way I would like to hear from you about your use of my articles. You may link to this site or post any of my articles on your site. Please email me and let me know. Another website that posts my articles or links to my website is not necessarily endorsed by me.
About the Logo/Banner: The left side is a photo of a lamp that shows a vine and branches and fruit: John 15:5. We, the Church, are the branches abiding in the Vine, Christ Jesus. My son took the photo of the lamp in the home of my mother-in-law and step father-in-law. The lamp was made by my mother-in-law’s late brother-in-law.
About Love
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
1 Corinthians 13
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another; Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord; Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer; Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
Romans 12:10-13