Church Discipline

DALLAS MEGACHURCH PUTS ON MASS WEDDING FOR DOZENS OF COHABITATING COUPLES

September 18, 2019 | by Guest Authors | Church Discipline, Church Legal Issues, Counseling, Family Enrichment, Moral issues, Sexual Abuse, Shared Articles 2

www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2019/september-web-only/megachurch-mass-wedding-cohabitation-pastor-bryan-carter.html INTERVIEW BY MARIA BAER As cohabitation continues to rise and more research details the instability of the arrangement for families, churches that champion marriage inevitably have to grapple with the issue. In a 2011 survey, more than half of Protestant pastors said they would marry couples who had been living together. Leaders at churches […]

THE APOSTLES NEVER ‘SHARED’ THE GOSPEL, AND NEITHER SHOULD WE

August 6, 2019 | by Guest Authors | Apologetics, Biblical Study, Christian Workers, Church Discipline, Church Planting, Evangelism, Historical Study, Holy Spirit, Pastoral Development, Pentecostal Revival, Scriptures, Shared Articles, Uncategorized 1

www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2019/july-august/elliot-clark-evangelism-exiles-sharing-gospel. THIS HAS TO BE ONE OF THE MOST CHALLENGING ARTICLES I’VE READ IN A LONG TIME. IT IS A MUST READ. EVERY PASTOR AND CHURCH CAN BENEFIT. Pastor Frank By: Elliott Clark I first awakened to this reality while doing language study in Central Asia. As I took a course in spiritual terminology, a missionary teacher […]

PENTECOST SUNDAY IS THIS SUNDAY: “RECEIVING THE HOLY SPIRIT”

June 5, 2019 | by Frank Tunstall | Biblical Study, Church Discipline, Church Growth, Evangelism, Pastoral Development, Pentecostal Revival, Scriptures, Uncategorized 0

By: Frank G. Tunstall, D. Min. When Jesus wanted to teach about receiving the Holy Spirit, He chose to tell a story about a man who was on a journey and stopped about midnight at his friend’s house. Of course, the traveler was hungry, but the host was out of bread. So, he went […]

SEXUAL ABUSE AND THE CLERGY

February 23, 2019 | by Frank Tunstall | Church Discipline, Church Legal Issues, Moral issues, Pastoral Development, Sexual Abuse, Shared Articles 0

www.snapnetwork.org/abuse of faith_feb19 Debbie Vasquez at 14 By: SNAP Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests February 19, 2019 SNAP is the largest, oldest and most active support group for women and men wounded by religious and institutional authorities (priests, ministers, bishops, deacons, nuns, coaches, teachers, and others). She was 14, she said, when she […]

AFTER MAJOR INVESTIGATION, SOUTHERN BAPTISTS CONFRONT THE ABUSE CRISIS THEY KNEW WAS COMING

February 23, 2019 | by Frank Tunstall | Christian Workers, Church Discipline, Church Legal Issues, Emotional healing, Moral issues, Pastoral Development, Sexual Abuse, Shared Articles 2

https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2019/february/southern-baptist-abuse-investigation-houston-chronicle-sbc.html I have absolutely no desire to gloat over what our Southern Baptist friends are walking through; instead, I hurt with them. My goal with this blog is hopefully to warn us all, sharing what is now public information. I lived through a sexual abuse lawsuit in my tenure as a conference bishop when a Christian Day School […]

WILLOW CREEK ELDERS AND PASTOR HEATHER LARSON RESIGN OVER BILL HYBELS

August 16, 2018 | by Guest Authors | Christian Workers, Church Discipline, Church Legal Issues, Emotional healing, Moral issues, Pastoral Development, Sexual Abuse, Shared Articles 0

https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2018/august/willow-creek-bill-hybels-heather-larson-elders-resign In sharing this story, I have no desire to sensationalize, or to celebrate the pain of Willow Creek Church or its founding pastor. In addition, everything in this article is now public information. My motive is sincerely to warn. I am convinced the devil’s first strategy is to get a pastor into a trap. His next […]

THIS IS DESTROYING MORE CHURCHES, PASTORS, MARRIAGES, AND PEOPLE THAN ANYTHING ELSE IN HISTORY

August 7, 2018 | by Guest Authors | Apologetics, Biblical Study, Christian Workers, Church Discipline, Emotional healing, Evangelism, Family Enrichment, Moral issues, Pastoral Development, Pentecostal Revival, Sexual Abuse, Shared Articles 0

ministrytodaymag.com/life/deliverance/25176-this-is-destroying-more-churches-pastors-marriages-and-people-than-anything-in-history “The greatest threat to the cause of Christ in the history of the world.” – Josh McDowell BY: CONQUER SERIES 8:00AM EDT 7/16/2018 As we see the daily political and social turmoil in our society, Christians are praying for God to send a spiritual revival to stir the church and ignite the fire of repentance […]

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