I listen to such a pastor on the internet, and his church is in Alabama. I am stuck in communist and apostate Red Hampshire where you would NEVER find a pastor such as you describe.
Please share the good pastors name. I too am hungry for the true word of God to be preached!
I try to say a prayer every day for those who are persecuted in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. I also pray for Christians here in the states to have the courage and conviction to stand solid in our faith and continue to preach the good news, true love and peace of Jesus Christ in the face of every increasing persecution.
I’m in Alabama sadly. You are a bit far for me to drive on Sunday’s. :-) (He gave a web site of his church in Texas)
My “doctrine” is the Holy Bible. I am Southern Baptist, but I follow God’s Word over “doctrine”. If the SBC’s doctrine went against the Bible, then I am not going to follow it. I am very simple, according to 1 Cor 15: 1-4, Paul’s stated Gospel: Death, Burial, Resurrection. Jesus Christ is the one and only God. He is the Creator. There is no other. I believe in a pre-trib rapture of the Church according to 1 Cor 15 and 1 Thess 4.
Our pastor’s sermons have become “milk” to people who should be wolfing down “meat” as Paul says. We come in on Sunday for Sunday School, which is good as we have two fine teachers. But, then we bog down in the preaching services. Our night disciple training is nearly non-existent now. Few show up. The Sunday evening worship service is maybe 40-50 people max. Wednesday is fewer than that for Bible study.
We now do nothing outside the church itself. They serve a lunch meal twice a year at the college Baptist Center on campus of the local college up the highway from our small church. Other than doing that twice a year, we have no other outside service to the community. People have become lazy and fat and happy and seem to think that coming to church on Sunday morning for an hour is doing their thing for God.
We have this one guy, whom I invited to Sunday School one morning say to me, “I am a member of the 11 o’clockers”. I said what is an 11 o’clocker? He said those of us who come at 11 a.m. each Sunday morning for preaching. I asked him if he was proud of himself for making that huge sacrifice for the Lord. He just blew it off and walked away. That seems to be the attitude of many today. It is very sad. Everyone is lazy. Fat and happy. Thinking, “well I have it made, so why bother doing anything else.” We are looking to SERVE the Lord. Doing not only in the church, but sharing outside the walls of our church as well. I am looking for a pastor who will talk about these End Times and the world rapidly approaching the coming of our Lord. But, our pastor has become complacent. He will mention the word Rapture, but never preaches a sermon on it. Never preaches on Bible prophesy.
Our attendance has gone down, down, down. We have few children and young people because we don’t have the gym, cheer leading, volleyball, games, fun, rock bands, party time for the young folks. A couple of mega churches in the area have lots of kids because they “rock on” with the drums, git-tars, loud music. THAT IS NOT worshiping God in my book. But, I am 62 years old and a traditional type guy. I grew up in a small country, gospel singing, helm based church. I don’t believe this new rock and roll is worshiping God. If we are there to “entertain” young people instead of telling them the gospel, then we are failing to do our jobs of sharing the gospel.
This new church we have been going to seems to be more what we need. The pastor has preached two good sermons. Their music is more the higher beat stuff. They say they do the traditional hymns but I have yet to hear them in two services thus far. I don’t care if the church has 35 people in it as long as it is a TRUE church.
Thank you for your response to my comment.