One of the most exciting times as a pastor was when I completed my initial seminary studies and ordination as I prayerfully considered callings from different churches. However, I was dumbfounded by some of the comments made by those tasked with selecting candidates. One committee of a very famous church said, “We hope you are not one of those pastors who always preaches the gospel as part of each message.” Another said, “We don’t want messages with boring doctrine, we want messages with lots of interesting stories.” Needless to say, I respectfully declined to proceed in those cases, but it brought to mind that these churches wanted their ears tickled and/or they needed to learn what is the importance of sound Biblical doctrine. Read more of this article from Dr. Michael Williams
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 12:58:08 +0000
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