Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 09011. Good pastoral training begins in a local church, continues in a local church, and is tested by a local church, and any model that treats the congregation as the place you go once the training is finished has the order wrong. I say that as someone who values study a great deal. The…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 09010. Ordination to ministry is the recognition by a local church that God has called and gifted a man for the work of an elder or pastor, and its public setting apart of him for that work. Notice what that definition does not say. It does not say that ordination confers powers, creates a…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 08141. Claims of angelic visitations arrive in pastoral ministry more often than people outside it would guess, and they rarely arrive at a convenient moment. Somebody stays behind after a service, or rings on a weekday evening, and tells you what they saw. How you answer in the next sixty seconds matters enormously, so…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 01165. KJV-Only members turn up in most Bible-believing churches sooner or later, and how a pastor responds to them says a great deal about the health of the congregation. I want to be honest from the outset: I do not hold the KJV-Only position myself, and I think it rests on claims that do…