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for training in truth and love
Here are a two helpful, quick video snippets from John Piper, who had pastored in Minneapolis, MN for over 30 years. The first video though entitled with 'church buildings' only contains the paying and sermon topics. The second video specifies more about pastoral pay (income, salary, wages). He includes a few New Testament examples and explanations, along with sound thinking and counsel for churches to pay pastors.
We have started a short video series explaining Telos Churches and Telos Center beginning with this overall introduction. This helps explain and share about the word telos, the gospel, churches, pastors, etc. More to come. Email subscribe for more updates and consider generously supporting with the network of supporters financially giving, praying, and wanting to see pastors raised up and lead church communities with this heart and aim.
Dr. Darrell Bock interviews Brian Rosner about money and God's direction and counsel in using money rightly, wisely, and generously through Dallas Theological Seminary's The Table podcast in April 2017 entitled "Money, Greed, and Generosity." When truth drives and love characterizes us, we know God is at work from the heart out aiming our life for his purposes and uses to love him and others. Here are some of the questions posed during the interview with helpful details and further questions and answers:
The late and widely known pastor and preacher, S.M. Lockridge (March 7, 1913 – April 4, 2000), preached the popular sermon entitled "That's My King" what seems to be a 1976 Detroit, Michigan sermon. From the hour long That's My King sermon, short 3-6 minute video snippets collate and showcase the passionate description of Jesus. The whole sermon is just as passionate and call to convictional living in trust to Christ that produces prayer, repentance, biblical-spiritual language, and love for one another.
Not all preachers will methodologically sound the same or sound 'intellectuall' but an inspirational preacher will be one humbled by God to herald or preach the truth and love of God to people regardless on the results or repentance. S.M. Lockridge challenges the audience to become passionate for Christ because of the truth of Christ.
I have been greatly impacted and inspired by people God has affected to live for him throughout history, like Adoniram Judson (August 9, 1788 – April 12, 1850). Adoniram Judson was an American who trusted in the gospel and was led to the country of Burma to share the gospel and God's word to those who needed to hear the gospel of Christ, where he then encountered the greatest hardships of life from the loss of family, falsely arrested by an outside intervening government, and a deep, dark depression that turned hopeful in the end.
Justin Taylor from The Gospel Coalition and Crossway interviews Lecrae and Trip Lee about their life stories and how that turned them to use their music talents to explain these great truths. The 49 minute interview contains a wide spectrum of content and categories starting with where both grew up, what kind of churches they grew up in, their personal lives, what they considered Christianity to be compared to now, rap music, and their music content doctrinally and socially.
God creates inspirational life stories for the world around to taste of his transformative work in people's hearts and lives. Traditionally, these are considered Christian testimonies, and a testimony is one confessing and testifying to the truth of God and their trust in him. We can find God working good in the world and anything good in the world is to be attributed to him and not humanity as God is the beginning and end of all goodness.
Meaning, he provides goodness in order for people to be redirected and end up trusting him as the source of all good, especially the good news of Christ Jesus -- the gospel. God works evil for his good, and the greatest and historical example of that is through the person and work of Jesus -- the epicenter of life, the world, scripture, and our life. Therefore, we are not good -- he is. These life stories have been inspired by and testify of this truth and love that works good in the world for all to hear, see, and taste of God and his goodness.
Pastor Scott Lehr teaches at Dallas Theological Seminary's annual week long Church Planter chapel series with a core topic of "Jesus is Stronger." Lehr provides the convictional core to any pastor servant-leading people in church planting, which is merely ensuring God's mission of making and training disciples of Christ in a local area to see people inspired by truth and love to make life, disciples, and churches all about Jesus." Typically pastoring to localize people around this mission involves difficulties common as well as uncommon to other work in life. We want pastors to be raised up and called to this heart and mission.
We look for song content for contexts to use for singing together, which is different than mere listening to a song for person reasons alike to entertainment. We found a few trusted resources so far, one being the Village Church from Flower Mound, TX, providing them for free use for others to use among their church community especially small gatherings, Bible studies, etc.
Remember, singing is one aspect of worship and not the definition to it.
www.thevillagechurch.net/resources/music/
Lawson passionately, helpfully, and accurately preaches on a timely question, "Is the Bible Just Another Book?" during the 2010 Ligonier Conference. The sermon answers the question in width, depth, and clarity. Lawson does an excellent job in going to an easy to follow yet exhaustive list of why the Bible is not just another book.
Sinclair Ferguson, pastor of 42 years to date of the video and professor, gave a short snippet lesson at the Desiring God Conference for Pastors in 2014 about the life of pastoring, highlighting the Greek and biblical concept of telos (aim, goal) and its relationship to pastoring, the church, and Christ. Watch and listen to the below video to learn of mistakes and wisdom to pastor or learn what to look for in pastors and churches. Listen to how Ferguson references the centrality and aim (telos) of the church being love understood from the verse and context of 1 Timothy 1:5.
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