Posted on 02/24/2015 6:32:47 AM PST by C19fan
When Pastor Adam Phillips moved across the country with his wife two years ago and planted a new congregation in Portland, Ore., he was heeding the call of his Christian roots, an Evangelical Covenant tradition that today has a primary mission “to reach young people, engage a growing multiethnic population, and develop vibrant local churches that make disciples.”
“Pastor Adam,” as his congregation at Christ Church: Portland calls him, was well suited for such a mission. Young, familiar as much with Tumblr as with theological tomes, and a former director of faith mobilization for the ONE Campaign, the antipoverty group cofounded by U2’s Bono, Mr. Phillips brought a charisma and enthusiasm common to generations of evangelical ministers.
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
He’s one of my heroes in the faith. i stayed at year at his Bethesda Home for Girls in Hattiesburg MS. I’ve often thought how I’d love to go back to that time.
How can a queer be a Christian? Their very core is full of sin and sinful thoughts.
Listen to Jacob Prasch on youtube about these so-called pastors, the false teachers that are leading the flocks into spiritual darkness instead of light. This is apostasy.
Nowadays, one can be an “evangelical” without being a Bible believing Christian.
I know, I'm 60 years old and I don't understand it either.
My uncle operated a similar Christian home for teen girls. His home was situated on a farm. I have fond memories of riding horses and getting to know some of the girls. I have wondered if he made a lasting impact on their lives. Interestingly enough, my uncle died in an auto accident about the same time Lester Roloff died in a plane crash.
I understand that desire to want to go back. I think of all the godly men I was around when I was young and I am so thankful for their influence. It wasn’t just my father, my grandfathers, and the other men in our family, it was their friends, the men in our small church, our Christian neighbors. I realize now that my childhood was unusual, even for the 60’s and 70’s South.
It was strict, and it put me a year behind academically (and I was an honor student), but it gave something much more important, something I can never lose and never want to lose-a firm foundation in Scripture and Godly living—we used to memorise chapter after chapter, and we read the entire Bible through, aloud and individually, over and over. Brother Roloff was a good man, and had a core of principles grounded in Scripture from which he would not be moved, but he was compassionate, and not in the weak, unreliable way which today passes for “compassion”. I remember learning later that he denounced his alma mater, Baylor, for awarding Truman, who cussed, and that was a big thing in those days. More’s the pity that it’s not now.
I also learned to love cottage cheese and Vidalia onion sandwiches with sea salt, on home-made bread :)
It’s becoming apparent to me that it’s soon going to be unwise to claim membership in any of those old “denominations” that we grew up in back then.
I also got over my fear of swimming there-if you couldn’t swim, you had to march back-and-forth across the shallow end. That was boring, so I said that I could swim, and jumped ff the diving board. I swam! LOL!
I agree with you. After a lifetime in the Southern Baptist Church, for the sake of my children I moved my family to a small independent reformed Baptist church. We actively work with similar congregations around the country to take the gospel around the globe, but we have no formal affiliation with any group. By the way, I no longer claim to be a Republican either.
What a blessing!
That’s what I am-independent fundamentalist baptist, and I also no longer claim to a Republican-I’m too far to the right for them these days.
It was, though it took me some growing up to appreciate it fully.
Throw out a few more books of the Bible, that'll make it easier to pretend that non-Catholics haven't rationalized then accepted whatever sin society demands they accept.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.