I pastor a smaller, traditional Baptist church. We have a single pastor/elder, 2 (soon to be 3) deacons, and a board of trustees. This makes pastoral leadership a little bit of a lonely place. My long-term goal is for our church to have lay elders. But what do elders do? What’s our “job” (even if […]
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Abraham has waited thirteen years. He has watched Ishmael grow. But Ishmael is wild, and as he grows, friction in the family grows with him. But maybe, just maybe, Ishmael is the promised child. And for thirteen years the domestic gloom and growing darkness about the promise of God build. God has made a promise,
When men have lost their reason, reasonable men are no longer heard. This seems to be the situation all over our country, as people have turned off their ability to rationally think through situations, and have instead defaulted to a worldview that has been twisted and skewed by their various experiences and backgrounds. In Ferguson,
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When men have lost their reason, reasonable men are no longer heard. This seems to be the situation all over our country, as people have turned off their ability to rationally think through situations, and have instead defaulted to a worldview that has been twisted and skewed by their various experiences and backgrounds. In Ferguson,
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I pastor a church in rural Indiana. If you drive out of our church parking lot and go six miles west, you will come across an apostolic church that advertises themselves as the place to “experience Pentecost every Sunday.” If you drive ten miles east, you will pass a church that advertises much the same