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2581 | Church staff's salary questionable | 1 Tim 3:7 | justme | 169831 | ||
rockfordhx: Welcome to the Forum! After reading your note I can see you are a man of unique faith. I respect your view, but don't agree. However this is not a issue to debate, it is an inhouse disagreement. I was a Bivocational pastor in three Churches, and fulltime pastor at one. I think a bivocational pastor can better have less concern about being terminated, because his family will still be taken care of. Many full time pastors are subject to over pleasing those who give mostto protect their income. Blessings. Justme |
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2582 | Church staff's salary questionable | 1 Tim 3:7 | justme | 169832 | ||
rockfordhx: Welcome to the Forum! After reading your note I can see you are a man of unique faith. I respect your view, but don't agree. However this is not a issue to debate, it is an inhouse disagreement. I was a Bivocational pastor in three Churches, and fulltime pastor at one. I think a bivocational pastor can better have less concern about being terminated, because his family will still be taken care of. Many full time pastors are subject to over pleasing those who give mostto protect their income. Blessings. Justme |
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2583 | Church staff's salary questionable | 1 Tim 3:7 | justme | 169903 | ||
Bereanian: Anyone can formaly ask in written form. If a tax exempt organization refuses that is angainst the law. The IRS can give the exact law if you so wish. It makes no difference what kind of religion they happen to be, they must comply. Justme |
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2584 | Church staff's salary questionable | 1 Tim 3:7 | justme | 171598 | ||
Bereaniam:Perhasp you might want to recheck that. Our CPA says if they are incorperated, yes they do. Blessings justme |
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2585 | appointment of pastors in the church | 1 Tim 3:11 | justme | 209822 | ||
dbondz: Welcome to the Study Bible Forum: You can read more posts on this subject by going to the left upper part of your screen and in the SEARCH box put in the words wonem as pastors or what ever topic you want. The subject of women serving in different positions in the church has diffrerent understandings by the different denominations. Even by baptists there is a wide belief of where women can serve. Ultimately this is not a subject to disfellowship fellow Christians over. No matter what our belief on the subject we all can be minister to those amoung our circle of friends and families. justme |
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2586 | Need the Verse for Bible Is Sufficient | 1 Tim 3:15 | justme | 101713 | ||
Jonhreformed: You answer has kindness and Christian Love all the way through it. I wanted you to know how it reads to others as an encouragement to me and I hope this encourages you as well. Blessings John. justme |
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2587 | The church as the pillar of Truth? | 1 Tim 3:15 | justme | 137283 | ||
junmeskie: I like to read the threads, and less than I once did write a note or so. Whenever I see "Hank" as the author of a note I usually read it, as he is so careful with English composition and cleaver with his imput. I respect him very highly, as Hank has earned it! I am proud to say Emmaus is my brother in Christ that has often responded to me with words of encouragement and remembering me in prayer, as well many of the Christian brothers and sisters her have. BrakK is has a reputation that is also one of a respected brother, and not just by me, but many on the forum. I consider myself a Catholic in the truest meaning of the word. The Church Universal is what Catholic Chruch means. I have been with the forum a good while, not that that means I am near as crediable as Emmaus, BradK or many other who are. I have the utmost respect for the Lockman Foundation, and their boundries they has set in force. There have been times when I have observed some who had agendas other than what this Forum is for. These folks were determined to go against even the most common basis of respect for others. I have seen Hank be more patient with most trouble seekers that they deserved, and I would have allowed if this were a forum I was in charge of. Please do not misunderstand me, I would never want a position like Hank has. I am not qualified in the first place either. Hank goes beyond the call of duty in all areas. I have said all the preceeding to present my views. I have read your notes and those who have responded to you. You are able to communicate quite well, and seem to have your theology down and are steadfast in the Roman Catholic faith. I respect someone who knows from where they stand. You have very strong devotion to your beliefs, which is positive in todays world. No one can accuse you of not wanting to share your faith. However, you are so abrasive and dogmatic and yes offensive, that no one can hear what you are saying. If one wants to be heard and listened to there must be a dialogue based on respect, kindness, and in this forun Christian love. I am reminded that Scripture says that others will know we are followers of Jesus by our love for each other. That must be present if others are to believe what we are saying is truth. To argue points we want to make about Christ is not presented in love than most likely it's not going to be assumilated but rather be returned in the same voice as it was received. I am amazed that you have been extended to privilege of continued dialogue in the forum. When extending a closing to others you have written you have signed off "God Bless", I have difficulty believing those words as genuine heart felt expressions when you have said that the faith others have is false, especially Protestants. Better to be honest than to just put the name of God attached to such caustic remarks. Please consider what I have said, and I would welcome a response. justme |
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2588 | Is the church is infallible? | 1 Tim 3:15 | justme | 137284 | ||
Emmaus, brother in Christ: I read this thread up to the time I am sending you this note. I read with intrest to see if and what you responded to Al with. Your note was kind and respectful, and true. I wanted to say thank you for bringing a Catholic presence in the forum. I have never seen anything but kindness and respect and Christian love from you. Thank you, and God bless yo my brother in Christ. justme |
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2589 | Is the church is infallible? | 1 Tim 3:15 | justme | 137286 | ||
pcdarcan1: I have read several notes you have posted. I notice that in the two days since have entered the Forum you have made a more than normal amount of posts than most. May I suggest that you seem to have made some serious statements about the Forum members and the Lockman Foundation that are in error. There are no elite members. That Hank has the authority to revoke ones privilege to be on the Forum, and Lockman has the utmost respect for Hank and many others that have been faithful for years, not juts two days. I have come to the conclusion that persons that seen to attack and hurt others, are often hurt people themselves. In defence of BradK, he said nothing that should or would be considered out of line or even the remotest thing that would be considered grounds for even a stern warning for. If you are of the opinion that this is a unfriendly or elite group of people you have come to a wrong conclusion. I encourage you to read completely through a thread before making any rash observations, and thus ending an oppertunity for Christian fellowship and renewal. justme |
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2590 | desperate for help | 1 Tim 5:8 | justme | 118535 | ||
Henry and Emmy: Your problem is not insignifacant, and there is much more going on than that shows it's self on the surface. This forum is not the place to seek the help you need. May I strongly suggest a Christian professional Psychologist. Having worked with families in trouble for a munber of yesra as a pastor, I can tell you few pastors are trained or equipped to deal with your problems. Abuse by hitting by book or fist is abuse. This should not be permitted to continue. Please seek out professional help ASAP. If your husband wont go, them go yourself. May God guide you both. justme |
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2591 | desperate for help | 1 Tim 5:8 | justme | 118536 | ||
Rowdy: I read with interest that Emmy's "biggest tradjedy is that you wont be able to remarry if you find you must leave your husband." Rowdy is this really her biggest trajedy? I would hope this would be her least of all the problems she faces. Generally most people are not thinking a bout marring someone else while trying to get their marriage some help. Many counselors are quick to say the "D" word, and may not have the Christian training to guide a couple into reconcillation. I know of couples who have endured many problems in their marriage for decades, because the Christian values demanded they stay and work hard with the love they had. That kind of covenant marriage is what the LORD expects, at least that's my understanding of Scripture. This example is why I think like EdB there is not much help on a Forum for serious marriage problems, and we are better off to refer them to professional Christian help. Blessings. justme |
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2592 | desperate for help | 1 Tim 5:8 | justme | 118561 | ||
Rowdy: Thanks for responding. I can see your points. I fall into a delma when it comes to advising people on very personal problems, on the foru. Here is why; There are so many opinions about what the Bible teaches on marriage, divorce, and remarriage. Some would bluntly tell someone to stay in an abusive marriage. On the other hand some would sayabuse is grounds for divorce. Still others would stick like cement to unless there has been adultery there can be no divorce for a Christian. This is only one example of the wide range of understandings of what the Bible says. One only has to touch on baptism, or etrenal security of the believer, and there is going to be dogmatic debate as to who is right and who'e wrong. We all have what we think is the only answer to these doctrines. Would you not agree? There are those who come to the forum seeking an answer that meets their agenda, be it divorce, remarriage, or you name it. What on the surface seems like a kind answer could be serving to justify ones actions or conteplating action. I have seen good Bible believing Christians make some serious wrong choices by basing the direction they took by a mistaken understanding of Scripture, and they were totally convienced they were doing what the Bible said. So when someone tells me that the Bibles says thus, I want to see it for myself, and in context. We have been deceived by many false teachers and their wild money making "the Lord told me so". I can easly think of five or so false teachers that have fallen in recent years. People followed not the voice of their master. So these are a few reasons that counseling people on serious problems are best left up to professional traind Christians. The one draw back is it usually cost money something most of us hate to part with, especially something we feel should be free of charge. A pastors time is one thing, a professional Christian psychologist it quite a bit different. However there are a great many who all but give away their time for the sake of the people. Somehow we fail to see the pastor as professional, and unless it's a member a pastor needs some value for his time as well, at least I feel so. I hope this helps explain more of where I am coming from. Blesings. justme |
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2593 | Confronting another about sin | 1 Tim 5:14 | justme | 165541 | ||
drcinva: First of all you have made a serious mistake by counseling her at all. Make it a ruel that men counsel men, and women counsel women! You are very foolish to not have refered her to someone who is equipped to counsel and not allow transference of feelings. You had best take heed and run as fas as you can away from all contact from her. There are husbands that might not think twice about beating the heck out of you. You have a serious responsibility in allowing her to become close enough to you to have a "crush". Biblically you are in sin while being intimate with a mans wife, and talking with her and knowing all you do is doing just that. Leave her alone, stay away, and do it NOW! justme |
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2594 | pastors income ? | 1 Tim 5:17 | justme | 50648 | ||
Dear Strongfellow: lCor,9:9 to 14. This specfically says a Pastor is entitled to receive his income from the Church. Even a Bi-vocational minister needs to be supported. The Elders or Decons, depending on how your church is set up, are responsible for three tables. The Lords Table, the Pastors table, and the Poor's table. All pastors serve full time! Some only get part time pay. This is a very sensitive subject for me. I experienced first hand what it was to have to care for our family on 65.dollars a week in 1986 to 1989. We paid all utilities in a rundown 100 plus year old parsonage. Yes the church incresaed the missiom giving every year, but never an increase for our family. I saw hours upon hours of visitation, sermon preperation, and constant interuption of our time with our family time. As a family our children went with out. As a family we were totally supportive of the ministry. We had no health insurance. Their pastor often beat the ambulance to the ER when some called to tell him someone was hurt. Yes God supplied our needs. The people of the church missed out on a deep blessing. Did it have an effect on our children? Oh yes, and it was almost too high a cost. Consider this, it cost over 100,000. dollars to get his BA, M.Div. and MARS degrees. And the Lord, with ways that seem hard to understand, the debt of student loans were paid in full. But not by the church, or amyone in any church. This nearly cost him his life. Was it worth it? Yes! Is ministry painful, yes! Infact it cost Jesus His life. Are we as Families in ministry going to suffer? We expected it would! And with no supprise it did. So what about pastors income? Having been the person responsible for the budget, let me make a suggestion. A full time pastor should make no less than the avarage income of the people he serves. If you have a parsonage make at nice as the avarage church members home. Be generious, remember, how the childrens dad is paid directly influences how they see God as supplying their needs. Make an effort to show some kind of tangeable reward durring Pastors Appreciation Month! Rember the families birthdays, if with nothing more than a cake, show you care! I would insist that the Pastor take two vacations a year. Remember he to needs to recharge his spiritual life, and be alone with his family. Above all else if you have a problem with the pastor, don't go to his wife, or fellow church members! Go directly to him first! Then go by Matt 18:15 to 20. Never fire a pastor with out him being directly involved. Get a third spiritual party to help work through the problem. If leaving is the only answer, then make your parting as kind as possible. Remember the community you live in is watching you. Also remember, the pastors family needs grace and mercy as well. Ther are no perfect churches, and there is no such thing as a perfect pastor either. In the four churches we served, together as a family, we gave more than we ever received from the church. We recieved from the Lord through other people outside the church more than we evrer gave. Many churches miss a blessing by not ministering to their pastor and his family. I am totally convienced that God will care for the pastors family regardless, even if the church is stingy God wil supply the need, some how . Did our children come out as adults with hurt feelings? YES, our three year old, at the time, I can still remembering her asking, why doesn't my Sunday school teacher love me any more? As an adult she has said how much that hurt her. I would say make any leaving experience for the pastors family a kind one. When a pastor resigns bare in mind most likely he has prayed until his eyes were overflowing, before making the final choice. Pastors are a gift from God, and so are churches. So pray four pastor as much as you expect him to pray for you. agape justmer |
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2595 | Hurting words, hurt people? | 1 Tim 6:4 | justme | 57312 | ||
this dialogue with in the andes and others has gone to a level of word darts. Gould we have a brake from this for a while? | ||||||
2596 | Hurting words, hurt people? | 1 Tim 6:4 | justme | 57316 | ||
I did! I also felt an open expression of TIME OUT was needed. I have noticed you have been rather quiet inall this. Wise man who knows when to keep silent. If a fool taklks that removes all doubt. Agape, justme |
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2597 | the farher,son,holy spirit? | 1 Tim 6:16 | justme | 229199 | ||
biblicalman(:-) I have seldon read a better way of explaining the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit! Often I have said that there is no way our very limited human ability can grasp how to explain The Triune God. No theory of using an egg or water comes close in my thinking. I take Deut. 29:29 and trust in what God has allowed to know in the Bible about the Awesomeness of the LORD. Blessings. justme |
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2598 | Who is qualified? | 1 Tim 6:17 | justme | 53603 | ||
In the Andes: In regard to 1 Thessalonians4:12 it says "so that you will not be dependant on anybody." NIV. You are to live to glorify God. I think the simple truth is if some Christian says they feel offended is reason to make a change. If you are having others make judgements on how much you spend then perhaps there is a problem? I find if I ask Jesus to revale some area I need to change, the Holy Spirit will make it known to me. I personally ware all Walmart clothes. Tennis shoes ten dollars, pants twenty two. shirt eight dollars. I am quite content and comfortable, which is what I want. However our teenage daughter is a different matter. But, we make her buy lady like clothes that don't make her look like a street walker, which is so wide spred here.We do compremise at times. There people I know in La Paz, Bolivia that are lucky to have the very basic for clothing. Hope this helps agape, justme |
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2599 | Who is qualified? | 1 Tim 6:17 | justme | 53648 | ||
Dear In the Andes: Oh my, talk about picturing something wrong , I sure did. After reading this answer I KNOW what you mean. Bless your heart. I have seen several missionaries in Bolivia, and Mexico and I came back with a changed attitude. In fact in 1982 when I went to La Paz, Bolivia is what God used to so me I was not a Born again Christian. Can you imagine it took me 37 years anda trip to Bolivia to wake me up? It was March of 1983 I found Christ as my Lord because of my trip to Bolivia! Now, I could not agree with you more on how much misssionaries give up, and sacrifice for being in "the ministry". I do not think it is fait to have missionaries raise their own support. Some go to the field with less than 90 percent of the needed funds. Half way through the year churches forget a month or two and then others who promised to be faithfull supporters have hard times and you suffer even more. Before you know it you are at 55 percent. Then some supporters want to know what you did with THEIR money? Am I right? I was in the pastorial ministry here in the US for a good length of time. In getting my BA degree, my M.Div. and MARS it cost almost 100,000 dollars by the time I finished. At one church I stayed three years with no raise in pay, and we had our fourth child there. No the church did very little, and it was darn very little. However others in strange ways helped in ways only God could done. We had a Ford Van with 165,000 that got 12 mpg. We bought a cheap 4 door Mercury Topaz. We heard about how we misspent our money! I made 65 dollars a week for three years. Ministry is not as glamorous and joyfull as we thought. We suffered, went without as church members has the very best of everything. Yes God rewarded our faith, but the cost was very high. But I feel it was worth it from my point of view. My two oldest children, now adults, have had a hard time resolving their hurts, but have done so. I kow of a Canadain Baptist Missionaary who left Boliva, because they wer going to have board the young children while the ministered to the Bolivians in La Paz. I agreed with his choice. What good are you to God if you let someone else raise your children? Who ever suggested such a stupid thing failed to see priorities that are God given. I believe you need the very best tools and living conditions. Nothing hurts me deeper than to see a missionary come to the church and put on a dog and poney show to begg for support. Sometimes they are not even given food, or gas monet that took to come to the church! I hope you can feel my hurt I feel for you. I believe I can honestly say I understand. What mission group are you connected with? I have seen the Andes, they are the most spectacular mountians I have ever seen. My plane LLoyds Bolivino almost crashed going from Santa Cruze to La Paz. There was a general Government strike. A unexperienced piolet was in charge. The stewardest got sick it was so bad. We bounced all over and the left wing came within 5 feet of hitting the mountians edge! Would you believe I went back to La Paz in 1986! It was in civil unrest and the military shot bullets to get people to move. That was out side our hotel. Well Bless you friend. agape, justme |
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2600 | Are we back to the absurd view...? | 2 Timothy | justme | 80909 | ||
Radioman2: The verses in 2Timothy that came to mind are 3:16 and 16. Though anyone could use these verses to prove their point. I can't help but think of Romans 14. From my perspective, Paul says we are to be accepting of each others ways in the way we belive the Lord has instructed us. Paul simplifies the text down to a "meat and vegtables" type of accepting one another. I have really struggled with the same issue you bring up. For some there is no leway and no way to accept anyone who does not use the KJV. I personally see these type of Christians as the "weaker" that Paul refers to. I have less frustration when I see it that way. Perhaps tradition is what holds some Christians faith tightly bound together. Perhaps the biggest mountian to overcome is no version that is not written in Greek or Hebrew is exact, in translating word for word and thought for thought. There is no perfect English translation. Every English translation has a biasis. The translators come from a pointof common understand. One example is the NRSV. The agenda was a gender inclusive translation. In order to get the result of such a translation there has to be a changing of the orignal language of the Greek and Hebrew. This in my opinion is distorting the meaning. The TNIV which, some of us on the Forum were asked to review, is flawed so badly that the translators have what I believe to be an agenda beyond inclusivity. Romans 1 is so badly flawed that it uses "practicing homosexuals" which in no way can be gotten from the greek no matter how badly you translate it just is not there. I agree that there is a movement to discredit and translation that is not KJV. I grew up on the KJV, and if it was the only Bible I could and would use it. However, it would take some real effort to adapt. I use the updated NASB and I have challenged several verses that I went back and did a word by word search. I have yet to find a verse to fail that personal test by me. I admit I am not profishent in Biblical languafes but I do have the tools to help me take on the task. This is a debate that will not be settled this side of heaven. I pray that we who are blessed by some very good translations will be tollerant to those who come from a sincere place of concern that they remain pure to the KJV. I don't agree withe that view, but I can espress kindness and tolerate their mistrust of newer better translations. The problem is often those who are KJV loyalists are often so demanding there is no room for dialogue. Your thoughts are welcome. Blessings. justme |
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