Jack Hyles wrote an article entitled The Science of Calling a Pastor. In this article intended on instructing churches on how to call a pastor he wrote: Choose someone who is not a Bible expositor. There is not one expository sermon in the Bible. All of them are topical. I am not fighting expository preaching, [...]
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Should a Church Call a Pastor According to Jack Hyles or Mark Dever?
Posted: March 12, 2012 in Pastoral TheologyTags: Ballymoney Baptist Church, Calling a Pastor to a church, Colin Adams, Jack Hyles, Mark Dever's Nine Marks of a Healthy Church, Paul Jackson's The Doctrine and Administration of the Church, Search Committee
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The Leader’s Pitfall: Mental Laziness
Posted: February 8, 2012 in Pastoral TheologyTags: D. L. Moody, Henry Blackaby's Spiritual Leadership, Homer Kent, R. C. Sproul, richard blackaby, spiritual disciplines, spiritual lethargy
“Every year thousands of leaders shipwreck their careers, their organizations, and their families by making careless, foolish choices.” This is the opening line in Henry & Richard Blackaby’s chapter entitled The Leader’s Pitfalls in Spiritual Leadership. They discuss ten pitfall leaders too many leaders crash into: Pride, Sexual sin, Cynicism, Greed, Mental laziness, Oversensitivity, Spiritual [...]
The Church Business Meeting 101
Posted: November 29, 2011 in Pastoral TheologyTags: Mark Dever, Robert Anderson's Effective Pastor: A Practical Guide to the Ministry, Robert's Rules for Dummies, Robert's Rules of Order, The Church Business Meeting, The Deliberate Church
It is almost 7:00 p.m. and you are about to chair your church’s business meeting. You ask yourself, “Self, what if someone wants to amend the original motion, how will I handle it?” “Self, what if the discussion gets a little out of hand and I need to table the motion in order to do some [...]
Independent Fundamental Baptist Churches Accused of Cover-Up, Part 2
Posted: July 16, 2011 in News, Pastoral TheologyTags: Kevin Bauder's In the Nick of Time
Kevin Bauder, in his In The Nick of Time, has some timely suggestions for all churches in light of these scandals. I will only give the outline of his insights. I would encourage you to read the entire article at his website. Bauder asks, So what are we supposed to do? First Bauder gives responses [...]
Independent Fundamental Baptist Churches Accused of Cover-Up, Part 1
Posted: July 15, 2011 in News, Pastoral TheologyTags: Alan Goldberg, Bob Bixby, Bob Hayton, Compassion or Cover-Up? Teen Victim Claims Rape; Forced Confession in Church, Daniel Leaf, Elizabeth Vargas and 20/20, Fundamentally Reformed, In The Nick of Time, Independent Fundamental Baptist Churches, Kevin Bauder, Penees: Musings of a Contented Misfit, Tina Anderson
The Independent Fundamental Baptist churches have been accused of covering up sexual scandal. Elizabeth Vargas on 20/20 aired a documentary accusing the IFB churches of hiding pedophilia in their churches. The documentary entitled Compassion or Cover-Up? Teen Victim Claims Rape; Forced Confession in Church aired on April 11, 2011. One of the three girls interviewed [...]
A New Website on my Blog Roll: SermonCentral.com
Posted: May 7, 2011 in Homiletics/Preaching, Pastoral TheologyTags: SermonCentral.com
I just started posting sermons on SermonCentral.com and thought I would introduce this resource to you. As you will see there are some amazing benefits. Be sure to watch Why She Gets a Day by The Skit Guys. SermonCentral is the world’s leader in sermon resources and research. We are dedicated to equipping pastors worldwide [...]
Four Important Church Documents
Posted: April 26, 2011 in Church Ministries, Pastoral TheologyTags: Christian Law Association, http://www.startchurch.com/, John Piper, Mark Dever's The Deliberate Church
Because of government intrusion into church affairs and the potential of lawsuits, churches need at least three official documents: a church constitution, a church covenant, and a statement of faith. A fourth document which is also being recommended from such organizations as Christian Law Association is articles of incorporation. Joseph Miller says “in an opinion [...]
Mark Seven of a Healthy Church: Biblical Church Discipline
Posted: March 22, 2011 in Pastoral TheologyTags: Church Discipline, Mark Dever's Nine Marks of a Healthy Church
“Alan Redpath has said about the membership of the average American church that 5 percent don’t exist, 10 percent can’t be found, 25 percent don’t attend, 50 percent show up on Sunday, 75 percent don’t attend the prayer meeting, 90 percent have no family worship, and 95 percent have never shared the Gospel with others.” [...]
Guidelines for Calling a Pastor or Pastoral Courtship
Posted: March 15, 2011 in Church Ministries, Pastoral TheologyTags: Calling a Pastor to a church
When a church has need of a pastor they should go courting a potential candidate. Here are some brief suggested guidelines that certainly can be modified according to the need and policy of the church. 1. The deacons form a Search Committee or sometimes the deacons are the Search Committee. 2. An Interim pastor is [...]
The Steps To Ordination
Posted: February 22, 2011 in Pastoral TheologyTags: Ordination Council and Service
The Ordination Council (Acts 6:1-6; 1 Tim 5:22; 2 Tim 1:6) 1. Inform your pastor of your conviction that God has called you to preach (1 Tim 3:2; 1Thess 5:24; Acts 13:1-3) 2. The pastor will present your name to the church for a vote to form an ordination council for the purpose of examining [...]
