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It Ain’t About the Benjamins

May 11, 2011 by Mike Bergman

The nation’s economy is in a crunch.  Unemployment rates are high, gas is high, utilities are high, the dollar is falling…translate this to church and the SBC: giving is down and the Cooperative Program is down.  Many churches are having to slash budgets (including mine—our budget year ends the last day of June and it looks like we are going to have a 20%+ budget shortfall).  And now come the calls that we need to give more—pastors do it from the pulpit, deacons do it (I personally know of one church from my past where a different deacon is now getting up in front of the congregation each … [Read more...] about It Ain’t About the Benjamins

The More Excellent Way! Paul’s Solution for a Splintered SBC

May 11, 2011 by Dave Miller

Paul had some great churches that he had planted, but he had one dysfunctional fellowship that he was continually correcting and trying to set back on the right path - the church at Corinth.  Corinth was a splintered church in just about every way.  For goodness sakes, they even found a way to observe the Lord's Supper in a divisive way!  Paul corrected their arrogant, divisive attitudes, their immorality, their wrong attitudes about marriage, their disagreements over matters of personal conscience, their abuse of the Lord's Supper.  Then, in 1 Corinthians 12, Paul addressed their divisions … [Read more...] about The More Excellent Way! Paul’s Solution for a Splintered SBC

It’s My Party (I can cry if I want to…)

May 10, 2011 by Mike Bergman

We love our drama.  We love putting other people down and raising ourselves up—it is a part of our sick, corrupt, twisted, and less-than-human (the way God created us, at least) nature. I talked to an ex-student of mine.  She told me about all the soap-opera like events going on at the school ranging from personal conflict to extreme favoritism.  She said it was better when I was in the administration there and I need to come back.  I smiled and shook my head and said, “People complained about the exact same stuff when I was there.”  It’s the same ol’ song and dance with the cards shuffled … [Read more...] about It’s My Party (I can cry if I want to…)

Why I love the SBC

May 10, 2011 by Dan

Yes, that's right, I love the SBC. I am a 34 year old Associate Pastor in Iowa, surrounded by people who either marginally like, don't care or just flat out dislike the Convention. I have been part of the SBC since 9 month before I was born, but it's not cause my parents were die hards. Before I was born, my dad wasn't a church goer and my mom never drove. Closest church to the house was an SBC church. By the time I was born, my dad was saved and Baptized and serving in the church. I got involved young, serving on youth counsel, doing different types of ministry in the youth … [Read more...] about Why I love the SBC

Let Us Hope that Exclusionary Attitudes Do Not Prevail in the SBC

May 10, 2011 by Dave Miller

Jerry Nash is the Director of Missions of the Harmony Baptist Association in Trenton, FL.  He is, I'm sure, a man of God who loves Jesus and serves him faithfully.  But in the article he published at SBC Today on Monday, entitled "Hold the Hearse, I Have an Idea!" he demonstrates to me a spirit of arrogance, exclusion and anger that is causing the splintering of the SBC of which I wrote last week (here and here). I want to be clear.  I think the spirit and tone of the Nash article is precisely what is splintering the SBC.  I am confronting it here because it was published at SBC Today.  It … [Read more...] about Let Us Hope that Exclusionary Attitudes Do Not Prevail in the SBC

Monday’s Ministry Musing: The Necessity of Harnessing Excitement

May 9, 2011 by Mike Leake

A pastor will typically spend hours studying over a text to preach it on a Sunday morning.  He wrestles through the difficult parts of the text.  There is much sweat and labor that goes into preparing a message.  Often times God will preach the sermon to our own hearts before we preach it to others. I think the best sermons that I have preached have been the ones that have rocked my heart and soul before I even stand in the pulpit.  When I feel the weight of a text and see the beauty of the gospel therein it causes me to be very passionate about the sermon I am getting ready to preach.  I … [Read more...] about Monday’s Ministry Musing: The Necessity of Harnessing Excitement

What is the Great Tribulation?

May 9, 2011 by Mike Bergman

This is a follow-up to some of the discussion in my Something Old, Something New post.  I posited that my position on the relationship between Israel and the Church does not lend to a pre-tribulation rapture.  This brought up the common notion of the tribulation being the wrath of God poured out upon the earth.  This, of course, is a main tenant of dispensational pre-tribulation theology (and the other day I even watched a rerun of Adrian Rogers preaching that tribulation is God’s wrath, talk about timing). I grew up in a church that assumed dispensationalism, and matured in a church that … [Read more...] about What is the Great Tribulation?

Judgment Will Fall in Two Weeks!

May 7, 2011 by Dave Miller

Biblical scholar and theological genius Harold Camping has demonstrated with devastating exegetical precision that the Rapture will occur on May 21, 2011, followed by five months of judgment on earth with the end of the world occurring on October 21, 2011.  You can read the tract here, but the logic is brilliant beyond disputation. I would like to help you interpret some of this information and make some decisions to prepare for what lies ahead. 1)  There seems to be no reason to keep your bank accounts or other assets.  Money will mean nothing when the judgment comes.  I have designated … [Read more...] about Judgment Will Fall in Two Weeks!

Why the brick and mortar church is doomed

May 6, 2011 by Dan

I spent a week at the Exponential Conference, a church planting conference in Orlando FL. It pushed me and challenged me in ways I had never considered. One of the things I came away with is a quote from Alan Hirsch, he said "the church doesn't innovate". The more I think about that, the more i think it's true. Think about it, we have only had one part of the service change much, that's the music and it's caused huge divisions. We call it the "worship wars" over organs vs guitars. One change and we take sides, arm ourselves and begin the warfare. While the rest of the world speeds to … [Read more...] about Why the brick and mortar church is doomed

Something Old, Something New (a theological discussion on the relationship between Israel and the church, and why it matters)

May 6, 2011 by Mike Bergman

Throughout the entire story of redemptive history, the children of Abraham were, are, and always shall be the only and singular chosen people of God. The Bible starts with a rapid succession of events spanning from creation to sometime after the flood.  While in the first two chapters everything is good and very good, from chapters 3 to 11 the main event seems to be the extent of sin’s corruption.  During this time God did not so much work through a people but through families—the family of Adam, the family of Noah, and the family of Terah in particular.  In fact, as the story of the flood … [Read more...] about Something Old, Something New (a theological discussion on the relationship between Israel and the church, and why it matters)

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