So a Calvinist using his education to soften Calvin ( who had his friend murdered) and puritans who were sent by the Church of England to establish the churches beliefs and colonize the land! Glad I came here and canceled his book on Amazon
The Book of James 3:1 says, "NOT MANY of you should become teachers..." Just because someone goes to seminary DOESN'T make them a good pastor, and not ALL who stand behind the pulpit are born again. We have the internet now and many healthy churches are live and online. My advice is to find a healthy, born again pastor online. The man that took over for Charles Stanley is a good place to start. Also, Pastor David Jeremiah at Shadow Mountain El Cajon CA. I pray those of you who are victims of spiritual abuse find God's love grace and healing.
The perfect church on Earth does not exist and you cannot make the perfect church. If you can prove me wrong and find this church DO NOT JOIN IT!!! If you do you will spoil it.
This proverb is repeated to keep people in abusive churches blind to the fact that they are in a church with abusive leadership. Yes, no church is perfect. Yes, some churches are abusive. We should be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. As a person who stayed in an abusive church for a decade and then found an imperfect arm of the church that isn’t abusive, I judge this comment irrelevant at best in this conversation.
So powerful..grew up with Pastor Skip..he was and still is the real deal..just deeper, wider and higher than ever before.. May God bless you both richly for the truth which sets us all free. Thank you for sharing such encouraging words of wisdom.
I attended school, and played in band with Bob. He was genuinely good person then, and I'm elated to see that he's remained grounded in his perspective of the often overlooked, hard working tradespeople in our society.
My new goal: become a "Disney-esque" communicator. 8:31 Excellent interview. True to Doriani's form, the discussion with Phil highlighted the genuine ways that God is at work in even the most mundane of our daily grind. Also, the discussion of not ascribing evil motives towards others (34:18) is a sentiment we should all embrace in our current social climate. Looking forward to more interviews like this in the future.
Great interview, Dan, and I so enjoy Joe Buck on TV, I also remember seeing him in CENTRAL Pres. Church and he was 3 feet from where I was as sitting, but what a phenomenal memory and knowledge of his craft! I truly enjoyed that conversation!! DAN, YOU DID A GREAT JOB!!!
