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Warnings to the Church

by | Sep 19, 2024 | Christianity Today, Church leadership, Critical Race Theory, CRT, False Memory Syndrome, Immorality, Liberal Left, Open Theism, Progressives, SBC, Shepherds, Southern Baptist Convention, SRA

The biblical job description of pastors and elders is twofold. First, they are to guard the flock from false teachers trying to invade the church from the outside and from false teachers rising up from within. (Acts 20:28-30) Second, church leaders are also to: equip...

The Evangelical Press and the Church

by | Apr 20, 2023 | Beatrice Chestnut, Beth McCord, Bill Gothard / IBLP, Christopher Heuertz, Church leadership, Claudio Naranjo, Discernment, Eastern Mysticism, Enneagram, False Teacher, Gwen Shamblin, Helen Palmer, Heresy, Occult, Oscar Ichazo, Paganism, Panentheism, Pastors, Perennialism, Richard Rohr, Russ Hudson, Russell Moore, Spiritual AIDS, Suzanne Stabile, Weigh Down Workshop

Pastors and elders have difficult jobs. Biblically, they have two primary tasks. We find one in Acts 20. It is the shepherd’s role of protector: Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the...

Admonishing with Tears

by | May 21, 2020 | Authoritarian, Beth McCord, Church leadership, Deception, Defend the Faith, Definitions, Eastern Mysticism, Enneagram, Gnostic, Guarding the flock, Heresy, Ian Morgan Cron, New Age, Occult, Paganism, Pastors, Suzanne Stabile

Very often when we read Scripture we do not enter emotionally into the story. As a result, we miss the very real human elements in exchanges like the one Paul had with the Ephesian elders in Acts 20 as he gave them a charge which included: Therefore, be alert,...