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Showing posts with label Pastors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pastors. Show all posts
Thursday, July 23, 2026

Pastor problems

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Gallup’s 2025 “Honesty and Ethics Survey” finds that the perceived “honesty and ethics” of clergy has dropped 40 points since its 1985 poll ...
Thursday, June 13, 2024

The Law Amendment

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On April 24th, I posted about Southern Baptists and The Law Amendment . In a vote taken at the SBC meeting Wednesday June 12, 2024, the Law ...
Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Southern Baptists and The Law Amendment

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In a post on March 1 , I mentioned that though I am not Southern Baptist, I recognize and understand that the Southern Baptist Convention (S...
Monday, November 06, 2023

A monstrous tragedy of major proportions

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F. L. “Bubba” Copeland served as the mayor of Smiths Station, Alabama, and the pastor at First Baptist Church of Phenix City, Alabama (a chu...
Thursday, August 24, 2023

Credential Creep, Credentialism, and False Credentials

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Top Southern Baptist Convention news this past week probably is the resignation of Willie McLaurin from interim president and CEO of the SBC...
Friday, August 18, 2023

Bigger problems than women pastors

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The Saddleback Church (i.e. Saddleback Valley Community Church) in Southern California recently has been a news focus by being out of step w...
Thursday, July 27, 2023

Answering William’s Thirty Questions

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Thirty questions on our ecclesiology , by William Thornton, posted on SBC Voices . William is a retired SBC pastor who is quite amiable, wit...
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Thursday, June 30, 2022

Bishops, Elders, and Pastors

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Colin Smothers created a Venn diagram to illustrate the overlapping usage of the words bishop, elder, and pastor in the New Testament. He wr...
Thursday, December 02, 2021

The “Qualifications” of a Bishop

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Having been reliably informed that the requirements for the office of bishop set forth in I Timothy 3 “are the requirements for a perfect p...
Wednesday, December 01, 2021

The Husband of One Wife

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“the husband of one wife” 1 Timothy 3:2 , Titus 1:6 I recently read an online essay about divorce, remarriage, and the qualifications for ...
Friday, May 07, 2021

How Old Must a Pastor or Deacon Be?

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Q . At what age may a person become a pastor or deacon? A . The Bible mentions qualifications for the office of bishop/elder ( 1 Timothy 3:1...
Wednesday, April 17, 2019

The Shepherd and the C.E.O.

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On the SBC Voices blog, Clayton Pruett, an SBC pastor in Illinois, wrote about The Shepherd and the C.E.O . Though I don’t agree with all po...
Saturday, January 26, 2019

Transitioning from One Leader to the Next

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In How to Transition God’s People from One Leader to the Next: Lessons from David and Solomon , David Huffstutler (a pastor at First Baptis...
Friday, August 17, 2018

Pastor searching; how?

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Over at the SBC Voices blog, Tony Jones wrote and posted  We Can Do Something – Thoughts on Protecting our Churches from Sexual Predators . ...