Author: Jojo Agot
Pastor at Victory. Faculty and adviser at Every Nation Leadership Institute (ENLI). MA in Theology and Mission at Every Nation Seminary.
Jared C. Wilson on Young Pastors
From The Pastor’s Justification:
Young men, be teachable. You do not know everything. And your theology and your position are never licenses for authoritarianism. If you don’t want others to look down on your youth, don’t look down on their age.
At conferences and other speaking engagements I often meet young men in the ministry who say things like, “I’m in a church where the gospel isn’t important.” They are looking for advice. “How do I,” they want to know, “as an assistant or intern, influence my pastor or elder board toward more faithful gospel-centrality?” The first steps are these: be submissive, be humble, be subject to your elders, and listen more than you talk. Your pastor may not be as gospel-centered as you’d like, but if he is a Christian who’s been pastoring for a while, he still possesses a wisdom that will benefit you greatly. Continue reading Jared C. Wilson on Young Pastors
Five Knowable Categories in the Natural Sciences
In John MacArthur’s opening lecture at the Inerrancy Summit earlier this year, he quoted English philosopher Herbert Spencer who believed that there are five knowable categories in the natural sciences:
1. Time
2. Force
3. Motion
4. Space
5. Matter
By quoting Genesis 1:1, MacArthur believes that Spencer’s five categories are answered in the first sentence of the Bible alone. In the beginning (time) God (force) created (motion) the heavens (space) and the earth (matter).
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Church Planting Is…
Church planting is not franchising a way of doing church. It is planting the gospel that creates the church. Sometimes we get too excited about the prospect of spreading our church brand that we forget it is the gospel of Jesus that must be at the core of our church planting endeavors.
Chasing After Big Visions
We have become so enamored with chasing after big visions that we often forget the power of ordinary living. But God works in the ordinary; and much of the decisive moments of Bible history happened in ordinary places. Esau lost his birthright in the kitchen. Moses parted the Red Sea with an old man’s walking stick. Jesus used bread and wine as symbols of the new covenant. The truth is that big visions are often achieved by faithful, ordinary Christian living, not by sporadic spasms of great deeds.
The Posture of Our Prayers
It used to be that prayers were done in humble postures of the heart: asking, requesting, begging, like a servant bowed before the throne of a great king. Today, much of our prayers are about boldly declaring, decreeing, and commanding the blessings of God to go this way or that way. When did we start taking charge of God’s graces? When did we become too presumptuous?
Jojo Agot 