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Faulty Leadership – the Other Side of the Coin (Part 1)![]()
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Last week I published an article on my teaching website entitled, “Is Your Religion Focused on Christ or the Church?” My bottom-line point was that if it is focused primarily on the church, becoming disillusioned, discouraged and critical is difficult to avoid. If it is focused on Christ and imitating him, you will have grace toward the church and its leaders and can serve as a constructive critic rather than a negative one. I didn’t advise saying nothing, to simply grin-and-bear wrong practices, although some took it that way. My main emphasis evidently left that impression with them.![]()
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On this past Sunday, I preached a sermon with the same title, although the content was not exactly the same. You can watch and/or listen to it on the DFW Northeast Facebook page or on You Tube if you want. I received some critiques on both the article and the sermon which were very beneficial to me. They were basically of two types: concerns about what was included and concerns about what wasn’t included. Regarding the former, I did revise a paragraph in the article. What I said and the tone it carried were not good and it needed changing. Some of the rest of it was edgy, but I still think it was appropriate for the intended purpose. ![]()
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Regarding the latter, the critiques were about not saying more about faulty leadership, the church atmosphere created by it and the individuals hurt by it. Those giving the critiques agreed that no matter what happens, we still need to go the way of the cross in how we respond to being mistreated or encountering practices which we believe violate biblical principles. On the other hand, facing such treatment or atmospheres without becoming sinfully critical is understandably very challenging. I understand. I’m in that boat with you. Hence this article (and at least one more) in dealing with some of the specific concerns about faulty church leadership and what it creates. I use the term “faulty” because it can apply to ineffective leadership as well as sinful leadership and everything in-between.![]()
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Faulty Leadership – the Other Side of the Coin (Part 1) | Gordon Ferguson
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Faulty Leadership – the Other Side of the Coin (Part 1) Last week I published an article on my teaching website entitled, “Is Your Religion Focused on Christ or the Church?” My bottom-line point...4 days ago ·
Challenges, Challenges and More Challenges!![]()
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The last year and a half has been a really challenging time for all of us. It has been challenging to each of us as individuals and as families, and as church families as well. I pray that you have allowed God to use it all as a stepping stone to dig deeper into your relationship with him and with others. I pray that if you have allowed Satan to use it as a stumbling block to damage your relationship with him and/or with others that my article can help you get back on track. I want to help us all understand better how God wants us to view him and his family, the church. Please read the article. Thank you very much. gordonferguson.org/articles/is-your-religion-focused-on-christ-or-the-church/
Is Your Religion Focused on Christ or the Church? | Gordon Ferguson
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Is Your Religion Focused on Christ or the Church? The question posed by the title is one of the most important questions that any individual can entertain and it is one that you will answer with your ...1 week ago ·
Biblical Interpretation and Harmony![]()
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As expected, my article “Once Saved, Always Saved” did garner some reaction and disagreement. As I said, I’m not going to engage in debate tactics within Facebook responses, although I’m always willing to carry on further discussions via email, as I noted in posting the article. Here is a thought about biblical interpretation. Any teaching that is accepted by any branch of the Christian faith can seemingly find support by quoting some verses that appear to “prove” the teaching under consideration. The question is whether all passages addressing the topic can be interpreted in a biblically unified way. ![]()
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The responses in disagreement with my article merely quoted verses that appear to support their viewpoint. No attempts to explain the verses that clearly contradict that view were made. I have no problem with the passages others gave, since I did provide the exegetical basis with which to explain them, described so clearly by Robert Shank in his books, namely that the saved believer is one who continues to believe. I mentioned a number of passages in my article which demonstrate that a saved believer can indeed become an unbeliever again and be lost. ![]()
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Pitting verse against verse is not real exegesis, but that is what those with the differing view do, in my opinion. I can explain logically and biblically every passage others have quoted using the exegetical principle mentioned above, but I would welcome email responses that try to do the same with the passages I quoted. I’ve never seen it done convincingly. But consistent biblical interpretation calls for that. A growing number of evangelical scholars agree, whether the average evangelical preacher does or not. The security of the believer is a beautiful biblical doctrine; the security of the unbeliever is a false one.
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