May 29th is “A Mind to Build Day” at First Baptist Church of Glenarden. The announcement on the web site doesn’t say exactly what the good folks at FBCG will be doing that day, but here is the graphic they use to announce the day.
I’d like to think the “Mind to Build Day” is a day the leadership talks about building up the Body of Christ. You know, edifying the saints, helping them to grow and mature in Christ so they can each go into the community and make a difference. Or if they want to work in groups, they would be able to do so on their own. It’d be nice if the leadership would talk about real live discipling, not just running people through a bunch of classes and making them think that because they did that, they have somehow grown in Christ, while all the time telling them that they “…are the head and not the tail…and remember, your breakthrough is coming…so make sure you run with the horses…etc.”
It would be nice if the “Mind to Build Day” is a gathering of the saints to pray for the leaders of the church and to prepare to send members of the church out to establish another church in another section of town or some place else in the county.
But somehow, just somehow, I suspect “A Mind to Build Day” is going to be about making another push to get some more money to build on the monument in Kettering, Prince Georges County, Maryland.
So, while the graphic they use on the web site is the two hands holding a hammer, I suspect it should actually look more like this.
Hold on to your wallets.
:lol:...
“Hold on to your wallets.”
Priceless. Your writing style is becoming tighter and more witty.
Maybe it’s really “A Mind to Bilk” day?
what are you doing to encourage others to build(in any capacity) or are you too busy tearing down?
I see you that you’ve visited fbcglenarden.org, how come you chose not to talk about youth day or evangelism night. Come on brother if you are going to tell it,tell it all. Your website is about certain persons misleading and misguiding or decieving from the pulpit with 1000’s listen in on, what about you misleading or misguiding on the the internet where millions have access.
Pastor John k. jenkins sr is really doing a wonderful job kingdom building and teaching others to the same. You said it yourself that you visited pastor Goddlock’s church and was impressed. Well we all know where he came from. A CORRUPT TREE CANNOT BEAR
GOOD FRUIT matthew 7 verse 18
Lamar,
I did not say I was impressed. I said I was wrong, that is, Godlock did not butcher the scriptures as he did at First Baptist. He didn’t shout and try to get everyone excited. After seeing that, one might easily ask why he did those things at FBCG and stopped doing it once he “got his own church.”
But this kind of discussion gets a little too close to trying to see what is in a person’s heart. I work at only addressing what is. I cannot deal with motive except where there is pretty obvious - for example, charging people to attend a service or teaching a specific doctrine and refussing to enage in a real biblical discussion - John saying that Jesus suffered in hell for our sins and even though he can’t show me from scripture where it is so and ignores a multitude of scripture that exactly contradicts that. One o the things I have never said about john is that he is studpid. He is not. The question then becomes: Why does he ignore the clear teaching of scripture in favor what what is at best a stretched interpretation of a single verse?
Refusing to even examine the possibility that he might be mistaken in such a significant deviation from orthodoxy, and his refusal to address his willingness to associate with men who deny the Trinity paint the picture, not of a man seeking the truth, but one who is participating in the expedient, and participating at the expense of you, the congregation.
And no matter how many “good” things he may do, the compromises are the most telling. When Jesus was talking about the judgment when He returns, notice who he was talking to: The men who had done good things in His name. But notice what he says about them. He will say that he NEVER knew them (Luke 13:27).
Mormons do good things. They teach people how to live wholesome lives. But they deny the essentials. Does that make everything okay? Not really. At least that doesn’t seem to be how Jesus sees it when he tell the people to depart from Him.
And we won’t even talk about the fact that Hezekiah, a king of Judah, was a very Godly king. However, his father did much evil in the sight of God. What God does with one person is not automatically an indicator of the person they were under. Samuel and Eli are another example that comes rather readily to mind.
Melvin
Dear Beloved,
“Finally, works of piety and love are infinitely better than
indulgences, and yet these are not preached with such ceremony
or such zeal; nay, for the sake of preaching the indulgences
they are kept quiet, though it is the first and the sole duty
of all bishops that the people should learn the Gospel and the
love of Christ, for Christ never taught that indulgences
should be preached. How great then is the horror, how great
the peril of a bishop, if he permits the Gospel to be kept
quiet, and nothing but the noise of indulgences to be spread
among his people! Will not Christ say to them, “straining at a
gnat and swallowing a camel”?
Martin Luther (1514)
LETTER TO THE
ARCHBISHOP ALBRECHT
OF MAINZ
OCTOBER 31, 1517
It’s funny that things don’t change, everything remains the same under the sun. Abuses by leaders in the Church have been going on for a long time. Praise the God of Grace and Mercy that He moves on people to speak the truth. Continue my friend to proclaim the truth of the Lord, that He came to die for all, that all may be saved through Him. Simple plan of Love (Agape).
Jude 21,
Jose
Thanks for the encouragement Jose.
Melvin
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