I could be wrong, but I�m still convinced that First Baptist Church of Glenarden is working toward the goal of making the pastor�s wife, Trina Jenkins, the co-pastor. Church leadership has just been intensely involved with several churches doing the pastor/co-pastor thing. And in the past, the more time John Jenkins spends with one of the Big Dogs the more he matches what he does to what the Big Dogs do. It’s Pastor Dollar and Co-pastor Taffi. It’s Pastor Price and Co-pastor (Mrs.) Price. It’s Pastor and Co-paster (Mrs.) Cherry. And it’s Pastor and Co-pastor (Mrs.) Owens (Mt. Calvary in PG/DC).
And don�t forget, Trina is scheduled to speak at the services of at least two different churches, one in New York and the others here in Prince Georges county. I suspect they are building up her resume as proof she has the call to co-pastor. I could be wrong. But I doubt it.
What�s to keep the co-pastor thing from happening? The leadership of FBCG has demonstrated it�s lack of concern for doctrinal accuracy just by the cast of clowns eagerly welcomed to speak from the FBCG pulpit (Apostle Greenup [apostle?], Prophetess Bynum [prophetess?], Bishop Ellis (Oneness), Bishop Noel Jones (oneness/Word Faith), Tony (near-secularist buddy to the Adulterer-in-Chief) Compolo, T. Dexter Jakes (oneness/Word Faith) and a host of other Word Faith teachers). Adopting the unsupported concept of co-pastor would just be one more in a long line of compromises.
I can assure you none of the elders, deacons, or ministers are going to say anything. Remember the now-pastor who asked me if trinity was in the Bible? My experience with them has been that of men who are more interested in moving into a $22 million facility and keeping their deaconess wives happy than they are in understanding what the Bible actually says and applying it in their lives. They appear to be more interested in what the pastor says and does than in what the Bible says.
I give the church another year to eighteen months (July of 2006 at the latest) to make the co-pastor transition. I hope I�m wrong, but given the declining history of FBCG over the last seven to eight years, I don�t have much hope that I am.
By the way, if anybody can show me the concept of co-pastor in the Bible (please try to restrain yourself and not get too excited pointing to Priscilla and Aquilla � he was not the pastor of a local church) I will attend the installation of Trina Jenkins as co-pastor myself. But be ready to defend your position.
And take a look at the file I have here.
Hmmm…I wonder if she had to go through the “ministers” boot camp and sitthere on the right hand of the pulpit in the bull pen and wait to get the “privilege” to sit in the pulpit.
Guess she gets a free pass for being his wife. hmm…go figure.
Well of course she’s not going to have to go through all of that! She sleeps with the pastor!
Remember - Co-pastor by 2006! Anyone care to take any wagers on this. Any odds you want. I’m going to win no matter what.