Originally posted by Cow Poke
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So, for the last hour, I was in my conference room with the father of a mother of a family that has been visiting our church, and thinking about joining our church.
Lemme back up... a woman, who is a veterinarian oncologist, has been visiting our church with her husband and 4 boys.
She has told her dad, a local cattleman, about our church and me, in particular.
He stopped by to "check me out" (he had called first and made an appointment) and wanted to know what I taught on Revelation.
I told him, very generically, about the conversation I started here, and that I think we sometimes get way too carried away on things we really can't know.
He seemed much relieved, and told me that the church he is currently attending (bigger church than ours) was borderline about to split, because there's an internal battle over various views of eschatology, because their pastor (I know him well) was really pushing a particular view of Revelation, and spending just about every Sunday Morning and Wednesday night message on it.
He echoed my thoughts that people he highly respects as pastors and teachers can't seem to disagree on "future" things, and he is frustrated with the "pushy" viewpoints.
(His pastor is a friend of mine pretty much fresh out of Seminary with his ThD, and loves to show how much he knows - He's still my friend, but I try to avoid "deep" discussions, and try to keep it light.)
Which brings up another point -- some Churches won't even consider a pastor unless he has a Doctor's degree, not even knowing what kind of pastor he would be.
Lemme back up... a woman, who is a veterinarian oncologist, has been visiting our church with her husband and 4 boys.
She has told her dad, a local cattleman, about our church and me, in particular.
He stopped by to "check me out" (he had called first and made an appointment) and wanted to know what I taught on Revelation.
I told him, very generically, about the conversation I started here, and that I think we sometimes get way too carried away on things we really can't know.
He seemed much relieved, and told me that the church he is currently attending (bigger church than ours) was borderline about to split, because there's an internal battle over various views of eschatology, because their pastor (I know him well) was really pushing a particular view of Revelation, and spending just about every Sunday Morning and Wednesday night message on it.
He echoed my thoughts that people he highly respects as pastors and teachers can't seem to disagree on "future" things, and he is frustrated with the "pushy" viewpoints.
(His pastor is a friend of mine pretty much fresh out of Seminary with his ThD, and loves to show how much he knows - He's still my friend, but I try to avoid "deep" discussions, and try to keep it light.)
Which brings up another point -- some Churches won't even consider a pastor unless he has a Doctor's degree, not even knowing what kind of pastor he would be.
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