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  • Church is About the Gospel, Not Our Agendas

    Church is About the Gospel, Not Our Agendas

    Hebrews 10 23      Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful;  Holding fast Jesus paid the only offering necessary for our salvation and citizenship in His kingdom. Therefore, it is our great liberty to approach God. God has not given us burden upon burden…

  • The Congregation in View: Reflecting on 1 Timothy 3 for Transitional Churches

    The Congregation in View: Reflecting on 1 Timothy 3 for Transitional Churches

    We tend to stop after we read the qualifications for pastors and deacons. We stop directly after reading the qualifications because we are reading with the intent to judge others. Doubtless we want pastors and deacons whose character is reflected in 1 Timothy 3. We want pastors and deacons who sincerely love the congregation, are…

  • Deacons, Likewise: Considerations for Transitional Churches in 1 Timothy 3

    Deacons, Likewise: Considerations for Transitional Churches in 1 Timothy 3

    After stating the character qualifications for pastoral candidates, Paul inserts qualifications for deacons. Not all ministry involves pastoral work, strictly speaking. There are also deacons. In some way, the deacon office is like that of an overseer or pastor—but not the same. Paul exhorts the church through Timothy, Deacons likewise must be men of dignity,…

  • A Biblical Consideration of Ordination for Ministry in the Modern Church

    A Biblical Consideration of Ordination for Ministry in the Modern Church

    Would you recommend some resources about ordination? I remember the day I was ordained. It was a Spring day after having been before a counsel of local pastors for the purpose of examination. I stood before my local church in Durham, North Carolina to be affirmed by the entire congregation. It was a sweet moment.…

  • Ordination- Exodus 29:1-9

    Ordination- Exodus 29:1-9

    Aaron and his sons are ordained for their priestly ministry. The phrase translated as ordain, here (ומלאת יד–אהרן ייד–בניו), literally means to fill the hand of Aaron and his sons. The earliest mention of a type of ordination by the people of anyone to any kind of ministry in Scripture literally means that through ordination,…

  • Desire Prophecy, Don’t Forbid Speaking in Tongues

    Desire Prophecy, Don’t Forbid Speaking in Tongues

    Paul is writing to the local church at Corinth in order to admonish the congregation toward unity in the faith—unity through maturity. He is currently addressing the practice of spiritual gifts—particularly those of prophecy and speaking in tongues. He has admonished the local church to prioritize love, which edifies. He has also instructed the congregation…

  • I Will Never be The Pastor Again, Anywhere

    I Will Never be The Pastor Again, Anywhere

    I have been thinking for a long time about the legitimacy of the America’s pastorate—not the biblical pastoral office, mind you, but the American use of the pastorate. A church hires a “pastor” to lead or rule the church. Sometimes, the pastor that the local congregation “hires” is a hireling unfree to do ministry as…

  • Reflections on Appointing Elders in the Local Church

    Reflections on Appointing Elders in the Local Church

    On Sunday, May 30, 2021, we appointed Steve Faccio to the office of Elder at The Church at Sunsites. Ordination is an odd term that is not used in Scripture to refer to the appointment of elders (pastors) in a local church. Scripture does speak of appointing to office (Acts 14:23; Titus 1:5). Elders who…

  • Pharisaism: The Religion of the Degenerate

    Pharisaism: The Religion of the Degenerate

    Jesus is in the temple complex speaking directly to the chief priests and elders. This is Jesus’s third parable against them in view of the public. Matthew 22:1-14 22.1 Καὶ ἀποκριθεὶς ὁ Ἰησοῦς πάλιν εἶπεν ἐν παραβολαῖς αὐτοῖς λέγων·  2 Ὡμοιώθη ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν ἀνθρώπῳ βασιλεῖ, ὅστις ἐποίησεν γάμους τῷ υἱῷ αὐτοῦ.  3 καὶ…

  • Against Human Religion

    Against Human Religion

    Jesus is in a conversation with the chief priests and elders who challenged his authority. He tells his second parable against them. Matthew 21:33-46 “Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard and put a wall around it and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and rented…