Pastors
"If you want to make sure that your successor doesn't preach the Gospel, Just admit lots of people into the membership who aren't truly converted."
Mark Dever - "False Conversions: The Suicide Of The Church" at 2012 T4G
In the same address, Pastor Mark Dever explains why it is important to guard your church against false teachers. There is a symbiotic relationship in the church, between false teachers and false converts. "False teachers produce false converts; false converts hire false teachers."
That would explain how it is that some fundamental, doctrinally sound, bible believing churches that I have known, have drastically degenerated in just one generation.
2 comments:
Ralph........so very true.......good post......it's happening all over........
One of the biggest blow-ups I had when pastoring was when I refused to transfer someone in from another congregation because she was not a believer. The problem was not her. I talked with her and we agreed she should not join. It was her parents who were on my board. I managed to survive but it was brutal.
Grace and peace.
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