Comments on: Rant-o-rama http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/2014/03/18/rant-o-rama/ Theology you can eat and drink Fri, 10 Aug 2018 15:01:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 By: Mike Bull http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/2014/03/18/rant-o-rama/comment-page-1/#comment-31106 Thu, 20 Mar 2014 01:04:33 +0000 http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/?p=14030#comment-31106 Hi Micah – If your pastor is involved in bold witness outside the church, then he is not cowardly and I was not referring to him. If he’s just “preaching the Gospel” within the Church, then I guess I am. I’m talking about reaching the lost. The responsibilities of an elder in the Church include bold witness outside the Church, because that is how the Bible defines “Christian,” and this is the basic duty of every Christian. If we think ministry doesn’t include this, we have misunderstood the entire thrust of the New Testament, and I believe paedobaptism can be a big contributor to this. It gets us looking in the wrong direction, inwards instead of outwards. Driscoll has taken many risks throughout his ministry. In his biography he states that whenever things got comfortable it was time to shake things up that there might be more growth. I’m not saying all such decisions were right, but they are the reason for his Church growth and many pastors can learn from his strengths. The growth was not because he has been telling people what they wanted to hear, like so many other celebrity pastors. Not everyone has Driscoll’s gifts, certainly, but the bitter tone I hear in so many reports is just sour grapes. They don’t see the passion this man has for Christ, and it looks to me like this “bully” in many ways has a softer heart before God than many of his critics do. I would say the same for Doug Wilson, who thankfully doesn’t need to repent, but is also willing to take risks, gets accused of being a bully, and actually has a heart that is pliable before God. Certainly it’s better not to have to repent, but for the world to repent, it needs to see Christians and churches repent where we need to. And one area we need to repent is an aversion to risk. Yes, pastors are shepherds, but Davidic pastors kill lions and bears. I guess we’ll see how it plays out. Thanks for the comment.

]]> By: Micah Burke http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/2014/03/18/rant-o-rama/comment-page-1/#comment-31105 Thu, 20 Mar 2014 00:38:54 +0000 http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/?p=14030#comment-31105 Bull writes: “God has done more through this flawed man than He could ever do with the armies of cowardly pastors who hide in their church”

I for one would gladly take a Confessional, Reformed, Sola Scriptura-holding pastor who limited his focus to the duties and responsibilities of an elder in the church of God as Biblically defined.

Call him “cowardly” if you will, but I believe he’s doing what God has commanded in Scripture, and will never need to repent of it. My pastor does not “hide” in my church, but he boldly proclaims the Gospel of Christ and feeds the sheep of his local congregation, as a shepherd should.

]]> By: hjg150 http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/2014/03/18/rant-o-rama/comment-page-1/#comment-31062 Tue, 18 Mar 2014 13:17:53 +0000 http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/?p=14030#comment-31062 Good insight.

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