In spite of the abuses of ordination noted in part 1, Hammett believes “there is a biblical basis for recognizing leaders in some way, and a properly understood practice of education could serve some positive purposes.” Hammett see four positive results of ordination. The First Positive Result Hammett sees ordination as part of the church’s corporate [...]
Archive for August, 2010
Ordination for God Called Men to Pastor, Part 2
Posted: August 31, 2010 in Pastoral TheologyTags: Ed Stetzer, John Hammett's Biblical Foundations for Baptist Churches
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Ordination of God Called Men to Pastor, Part 1
Posted: August 31, 2010 in Pastoral TheologyTags: Ed Stetzer, Leonard Sweet, So Beautiful, The Missional Church, The Trellis and the Vine
Ordination is part of the debate between the Missional and Missions Church. The Missional church teaches all believers are called to minister and therefore opposes the ordination of those called to the ministry. In his book, So Beautiful, Leonard Sweet rejects God called pastors, ordination, and any distinction between clergy and laity calling such ideas [...]
THE EVANGELICAL APOLOGETIC CHART
Posted: August 26, 2010 in ApologeticsTags: Bernard Ramm, Cornelius Van Til, Dr. Hoyle Bowman, Dr. Robert Reymond, Edward John Carnell, F. F. Bruce, Gordon Clark, John McRay, John Whitcomb, Lee Strobel, Summa Theologica, Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas represents Rationalism which propounds that Christianity could be proven by pure logic which includes the theistic arguments for God’s existence: cosmological, teleological, anthropological, and the ontological arguments. These arguments for the existence of God in theory came from Thomas Aquinas. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) was a Roman Catholic theologian whose Summa Theologica, was declared by [...]
Book Review of The Trellis and the Vine: Chapter 3 “Why Sunday sermons are necessary but not sufficient”
Posted: August 24, 2010 in Pastoral TheologyTags: Bill Hybels, Colin Marshall and Tony Payne's The Trellis and the Vine", Greg Hawkins' Reveal: Where Are You?, Peter Adam's Speaking God's Word, Willow Creek Community Church
I have to admit I did not like this title in chapter three in The Trellis and the Vine since I teach Homiletics and Expository Preaching. But after reading the chapter I learned that the authors are not denigrating preaching but challenging us preachers to equip others to speak God’s Word to people in all of our [...]
The Call to Preach, Part 3: John Piper’s Call to Preach
Posted: August 20, 2010 in Homiletics/Preaching, Pastoral TheologyTags: John Piper, Justin Taylor, The Gospelcoalition
This is John Piper’s testimony on his call to preach from Justin Taylor’s The Gospelcoalition. 30 Years Ago Today: How God Called John Piper to Become a Pastor John Piper (January 1979)In May of 1979 John Piper had completed his sixth year of teaching biblical studies at Bethel College (Saint Paul, MN) and was due [...]
The Call to Preach, Part 2
Posted: August 20, 2010 in Homiletics/Preaching, Pastoral TheologyTags: C. J. Mahaney, Call to Preach, Charles A. Spurgeon, Harold W. Hoehner, Harold W. Hoehner's Ephesians: An Exegetical Commentary, John MacArhur, John Piper, Justin Taylor, Warren W. Wiersbe
In his testimony about the call to preach, John Piper, wrote: “The calling to preach and pastor had become irresistible.” Paul describes his call in Ephesians 3. The Call to The Ministry and The Call to Ministry is not Either/Or but Both/And. God called Paul to preach the truths in Ephesians 3:1-6 as he states [...]
The Promise of Knowing the Father. Sermon on John 14:7-11
Posted: August 20, 2010 in SermonsTags: Alexander McClaren, B. R. Laken, Charles Spurgeon, Colin Marshall and Tony Payne's The Trellis and the Vine", Joseph Parker
Joseph Parker, a contemporary of Charles Spurgeon, said: “Every pew has at least one troubled heart.” We are a troubled people among troubled people. Job expressed well this difficulty, “Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble” (Job 14:1). We live among a troubled people to whom we [...]
The Impact of the Allegorical Method of Interpretation on Preaching, Part 1
Posted: August 18, 2010 in Homiletics/PreachingTags: Allegorical method of interpretation, Augustine's On Christian Doctrine, Edwin Hatch's The Influence of Greeks Ideas on Christianity, Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History, Hughes Oliphant Old's The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church, James F. Stitzinger, John A. Broadus' Lectures on the History of Preaching, John Bright, John Chrysostom, Kevin Craig, Origen, Philo
Why has there been in a decline in expository preaching since the first century? The decline is well documented in the histories of preaching. James F. Stitzinger not only chronicles this decline but he identifies the culprit: “The rapid deterioration of primitive Christianity has been well documented. A lack of expository preaching in the post apostolic [...]
The Call to Preach, Part 1
Posted: August 17, 2010 in Homiletics/Preaching, Pastoral TheologyTags: Albert Mohler, Charles Spurgeon, Ed Stetzer, John MacArthur, Leonard Sweet
The debate between advocates of the Missions Church and the Missional Church (old conservative wing of the Emerging Church) continues: The Missions Church emphasizes global missions and the Missional church emphasizes your local culture, i.e., your city. The Missions Church stresses a special call to the Ministry and the Missional church stresses a call to [...]
