Posted in Shepherding on Jul 18th, 2009 No Comments »
Burk Parsons commented the other day that,
“In Chinese house churches a man is examined for the pastorate by investigating the theology, devotion, & life of those he’s discipled.”
I find this to be a very helpful summary of what qualifies a man for the office of pastor/elder, or even of a deacon in the local church.
First [...]
Posted in Puritans, Shepherding, Witnessing on Mar 30th, 2009 2 Comments »
I have argued here before that ’shepherding’ is the highest duty of the Christian. Yes, all Christians, in all stages of life and maturity, have a duty before God to be shepherding somebody. Some will be responsible for shepherding their children, some the flock of God in the local church, some their brothers and sisters, [...]
Posted in Catechizing, Shepherding on Feb 25th, 2009 3 Comments »
My daughter, Hannah Grace, turns 2 years old next week, and she is just now starting to put sentences together as opposed to just fragments of words (a BIG step!). Having already established in her somewhat of an understanding of Jesus, God, prayer, church, singing, preaching, reading the Bible, worship, etc. (it is adorable to [...]
Posted in Christian Culture, Christian Living, Shepherding, The Gospel on Jul 29th, 2008 6 Comments »
You’ve heard it all before: Americans are big fans of everything ‘instant’. We want our burgers in 2 minutes, our pizza in 30 or less; we want instant rewards, instant approval on that new car loan, and instant results from the diet plan, etc.
In fact, not only do we like instant results, our culture demands [...]
Posted in Christian Living, Shepherding on Feb 15th, 2008 16 Comments »
A short time ago I posted an article that essentially asked the question, “Why are we so quick to abandon the truth that salvation and eternal life is granted only to those who endure until the end?”
From it I received some encouraging feedback, despite the fact that it was but a brief blurb, containing few [...]
Posted in Christian Living, Shepherding on Feb 3rd, 2008 13 Comments »
Why are we so quick to abandon the truth that salvation and eternal life is granted only to those who endure until the end?
I certainly understand that we live in the age of the ‘decision’ for Christ, the ‘asking Him into our hearts’, the ’saying yes’ to Jesus, the ‘personal relationship with Christ’ type of [...]
Posted in Shepherding on Jan 31st, 2008 4 Comments »
“The greatest need in this country today…is preachers, and they’re hard to find…
…I walk into a church and here a preacher say stand up and say ‘I’m going to share from my heart today’, I’ll walk out. I care less what’s in his heart; I don’t want to know what’s in his heart, I want [...]
Posted in Church, Shepherding on Jan 17th, 2008 5 Comments »
Let me first begin this post by emphasizing that I personally have nothing against large congregations, per se. Reading through this post might certainly give you the impression that I have something against large churches, but I want to be crystal clear in saying that it is not the size of a church which chiefly [...]
Posted in Catechizing, Shepherding, Worship on Nov 27th, 2007 16 Comments »
Catechizing
–verb (used with object), -chized, -chiz·ing.
1. to instruct orally by means of questions and answers, esp. in Christian doctrine.
2. to question with reference to belief.
3. to question closely.
In private studies with my wife, I have recently begun catechizing her, partly to prepare for doing the same [...]
Posted in Church, Misc, Shepherding on Nov 15th, 2007 14 Comments »
I recently had an interesting discussion about the biblical qualifications for an elder. This discussion centered around Mark Driscoll, the former ‘emergent’ and admittedly crass pastor from Seattle, as well as other controversial pastors that people tend to have differing opinions of. Driscoll, though he has come a long way over the past few years, [...]
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