Greg Mathis
@GMathis89
Husband | Dad | Pastor | PhD Student @MBTS Writing on Spurgeon & Puritanism📚 | Rural Church Health | Vol Firefighter 🧑🏻🚒 | NC ➡️ SC ➡️ KY
I’m so thankful for the strictures and safeguards that come with an Episcopal and Anglican authority structure. One could never imagine such rigid authority structures falling into unrepentant sin…right?
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What if you’re not really retrieving the medieval church? What if the medieval church is retrieving you?
I’m noticing that in many evangelical circles, a soft Prosperity Gospel is advancing under the banner of an ill-conceived Tithing theology.
"Positive error is not so dangerous as partial truth." -C. H. Spurgeon (1865)
Persuasive
If paedobaptism was biblical, the debate over circumcising Gentiles in the church never would have occurred. “Baptism replaced circumcision” would have ended the debate. Not one person ever took that line of argument.
"The times are perilous; yet if we speak a word of warning, we are called sour Puritans." - C. H. Spurgeon (MTP 38:81).
“God grant us grace to keep in these peaceful paths, even though others should call us Puritans and ridicule our holy fear of sin. Amen” - C. H. Spurgeon (1879)
I’m no fan of Wolfe or his interestingly funded “Baptist Center.” But man I loathe the tendency to point to the scoreboard. Nothing has better seeded pastoral burnout among the obscure faithful laborers. Nothing accelerates ecclesiological pragmatism quicker.
So predictable 4 @William_E_Wolfe & his defeated gang to attack @jdgreear . JD has accomplished much more than any of them have: thriving church, 100s of missionaries sent, SBC Prez, 1000s baptized. Gr8 example. Instead, they cherry pick sermon clips to slander, b/c it’s all they…
"The godliness of Puritanism will not long survive the sound doctrine of Puritanism. The coals of orthodoxy are necessary to the fire of piety." - C. H. Spurgeon, 1887
Best way to balance PhD dissertation, pastoring, and fathering? BushHog therapy.
This is right. Leatherwood should step down for the good of the entire CP. Staying in place would be a vanity venture.
When 43% of the SBC wants the @ERLC to make significant changes or dissolve, that will significantly hinder the ability of thousands of churches to give the Cooperative Program, which in turn affects all entities of the SBC.
On our @SouthwestAir flight with an inoperative APU. Fun fact: the APU was what helped Sully land safely in the Hudson. Prayers appreciated! #SBC25
"Satan will endeavour, by making division, to get dominion." - John Trapp, 1647