Nashville, TN About Blog Robert J. Morgan is
the teaching pastor of The Donelson Fellowship in Nashville, Tennessee, where he has served for 35 years.
Nashville, TN About Blog Robert J. Morgan is
the teaching pastor of The Donelson Fellowship in Nashville, Tennessee, where he has served for 35 years.
Nashville, TN About Blog Robert J. Morgan is
the teaching pastor of The Donelson Fellowship in Nashville, Tennessee, where he has served for 35 years.
Let me say for the record that I do not believe that there are any biblical grounds for women being elders or
teaching pastors of a church.
Not exact matches
Much
of his
teaching on marriage for spouses is fairly simple, similar to what one would expect from a local parish
pastor.
I'm sorry
Pastor Evans but I think those «Christians» who abuse what Jesus stood for and his
teachings to shove them down the throats
of others and / or use them for political gain who do Jesus quite the disservice.
Ok, I won't let a gay
teach in the church I
pastor because
of it being a degradation to something beautiful.
Many conservative
pastors have accused Bell
of misrepresenting the Bible's
teachings on heaven and hell, with some going as far as calling him a heretic.
«Ok, I won't let a gay
teach in the church I
pastor because
of it being a degradation to something beautiful» (Fishon)
Several moments later, someone asked how many
of the churches have senior or
teaching pastors spend 1 - 2 minutes at the offering time in the service challenging the church to give.
«In my faith community, popular women
pastors such as Joyce Meyer were considered unbiblical for preaching from the pulpit in violation
of the apostle Paul's restriction in 1 Timothy 2:12 («I do not permit a woman to
teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent»),
9, Is it possible for a
pastor, priest, minister, leader, imam, master, or whatever, to â $ œallowâ $ a wide and opposing variety
of opinions even though he or she may strongly hold his or her own and
teach it?
The
pastor said
of what he has read about Mourdock's remarks, they largely lined up with the church's
teachings on the sanctity
of life and their belief that life begins at conception.
But I know a few evangelical and Pentecostal
pastors who'd worry that one in four people in church on most Sundays wasn't on board with the resurrection, a biblical reality reflected in the
teachings of our Lord,
of St. Paul, and the early Church.
Author and
pastor Brian McLaren, has called you, «One
of the most courageous
pastors in the US» and Christianity magazine editor John Buckeridge has raved about your
teaching style.
Teaching Pastor Rob Bell had a mission: To bring the message
of XXXchurch to his congregation
of 13,000.
Satan will get churches to tell the
pastor that people don't want to hear the Bible
taught any more, and so if he could just tell them a bunch
of stories, that would be better.
I'm not much different from you; so thanks again for the inspiration to find a
pastor of a bible -
teaching church....
We lasted 9 months, and in that short time, I became extremely concerned with many aspects
of what the
pastor was
teaching.
I was feeling extremely discouraged last night, since the newest church I went to seemed to be the «one», only now every time the one
pastor talks my spirit literally cringes at some
of the things he
teaches.
If God has blessed
Pastor Creflo Dollar, then he certainly should tell
of God's goodness, and
teach others how they can be in place to receive such blessings.
Never having heard
of calvin's
teachings before, we learned from this
pastor that we were «free willies» and «semi-pelagian» and «humanistic» and above all «man - centred» not «God - centred».
Obama is a Christian and his actions as president are very much in line with the
teaching of the new testament, yet I couldn't dare say that at my Evangelical church where the ACA has literally saved the life
of our
pastors child but here is so much hate for Obama it's down right scary.
I can almost visualize the conclusion
of each week in the Membership classes, where the
Pastor (or Elder) teaching the class get everybody to stand and say the pledge out loud, and then collects copies of everyone's pledge to be stored in the person's «Membership File» so that if they ever get out of hand, the pastor can pull their file and say, &laqu
Pastor (or Elder)
teaching the class get everybody to stand and say the pledge out loud, and then collects copies
of everyone's pledge to be stored in the person's «Membership File» so that if they ever get out
of hand, the
pastor can pull their file and say, &laqu
pastor can pull their file and say, «See?
The responses
of laity to preaching and
teaching and other pastoral leadership activities are extremely important;
pastors referred to «feeling that preaching and
teaching are falling on enthusiastic ears,» «the recommitment
of the faith by members who had fallen away,» or «helping the laity to use their gifts.»
So, it's not much
of a stretch for them to add robbery to their rap sheet,
teaching their members the fiction
of a
pastor's headship over them, and his / her right to their livelihood.
Particularly because many
Pastors teach just the opposite
of what you have stated in your post.
But anyway, I myself struggle with the same question you asked about
pastors who know and embrace the full implications
of Calvinism, and I have to say I DO regard a
pastor like that as one who
teaches False Doctrine and who is dangerous because
of it.
She
pastors a church with her husband (jonaughton.com) Rev Dr Viv Thomas is honorary
teaching pastor at St Paul's, Hammersmith and director
of Formation (formation.org.uk).
Come Sunday places the audience in the shoes
of Carlton's friends and colleagues who are distraught at how their
pastor, who used to preach the gospel to thousands on Christian TV, now seemingly denies Christ's own
teaching.
On Wednesday, October 20, 1993, an AP story about the task force's draft
of a social
teaching statement, «The Church and Human Sexuality: A Lutheran Perspective,» hit the press around the country - even before the
pastors had received their copies.
I will never again stand by a theology simply because it is what I am
taught, or because the
pastor of the church I go to believes it.
Moreover, it was specifically affirmed on behalf
of the drafters
of Pastor aeternus that the phrases ex cathedra does not extend to any and every example
of public
teaching by the pope (this was to exclude St Robert Bellarmine's exaggerated notion that the pope is always infallible except when speaking as a private doctor).
Many don't really care what kind
of preaching a
pastor does, they only care whether he
teaches eternal security or not.
At the interfaith prayer service held in today for the victims
of the Boston marathon bombing (including Lu Lingzi, a graduate student at Boston University, where I
teach), President Barack Obama was once again called upon to play the
pastor - in - chief at a moment
of national tragedy.
All those claiming the schools and the church was wrong, listen he
taught theological courses at a theological school, which by definition means that you have to be a person
of faith (not to mention that these are not theological schools at state or public universities but denominational theological schools) and to
pastor or counsel a church you again by definition have to be a person
of faith.
The greatest church a
pastor can have is one where every single person is like the noble Bereans
of Acts 17:11 where they search the Scriptures daily to see if the things he
teaches are correct.
But frankly, all the
pastors ought to be doing in the first place is being a servant and a slave to others — that's what a
pastor is anyway, at least what sketchy little bits
of «
pastor» roles can be made out in the NT, as it's scarcely mentioned — not necessarily standing up there and
teaching everyone two or three times a week, running the show, and acting like some kind
of CEO.
When I was a
pastor, I often quoted Isaiah 28:10 - 13 as proof that God's preferred method
of teaching was also line by line, precept upon precept.
John Ortberg, a
teaching pastor at Willow Creek Church in Barrington, Illinois, and the author
of Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them (Zondervan), This fall he will begin serving Menlo Park Presbyterian Church in northern California.
Wogaman, who
taught ethics at Wesley Theological Seminary for many years and is now
pastor of Foundry Methodist Church in Washington, D.C., tries to be fair to positions deviating from his distinctly leftist views.
Pastors should
teach about God and keep thier noses out
of political issues.
Mark Frees himself was once a
pastor of a non-denominational church, but came to the conclusion that the one -
pastor system isn't Biblical while doing a study
of the church in order to
teach it to the congregation.
He came in with the model
of Shepherding which meant that
pastors and altar ministers where to ensure members
of the congregation where catered for, protected, led,
taught, etc, to ensure they abided and also grew up to become sherpherds themselves.
While I agree that the Bible doesn't
teach that God's blueprint is for a one -
pastor system only, I know that God can still use a church with just one
pastor, as there is no such thing as a perfect church, and God obviously uses hundreds
of churches all over the world to spread His Word, and to serve others.
Confusion
of the preaching office
of the ministry with the work
of the
pastor as teacher has been a bad thing and has produced bad results; for no sermon is long enough to be, nor is its purpose properly envisaged as, an exercise in
teaching.
At what level
of school do they
teach a
pastor to listen and just nod their head.
[5] In explaining the Church's
teaching to individuals,
pastors may readily concede that a particular couple could greatly reduce the risk
of HIV transmission through the use
of a male condom.
So, we asked
pastors to write something on the Bible's
teaching on human sexuality and the sanctity
of life.
Besides, even if the passage says only the
pastor should give, why do you
teach the church to shout at their
pastor in the course
of worship?