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Timothy Bergsma

1. Accountability: The Mark of a Wise and Protected Leader - 0 views

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counseling accountability

shared by Timothy Bergsma on 17 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Teach people to live out the gospel in all of their relationships
  • Teach people to shun gossip and slander, especially against leaders
  • Repeatedly commend the habit of making "charitable judgments.
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  • Encourage people to distinguish between style and substance
  • Train all of your people, and especially your leaders, how to respond to conflict biblically
  • Timothy Bergsma on 17 Sep 09
     
    Accountability:The Mark of a Wise and Protected Leader
  • Timothy Bergsma on 17 Sep 09
     
    This is the 1st of 2 articles I found that address some comments in our Moodle Question for this week (Sept. 19/09) on "Maintaining Moral Purity" 1. Accountability 2. Approachability
David Murray

Was Adam a Real Historical Individual? « Analogical Thoughts - 0 views

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Adam

shared by David Murray on 23 Sep 09 - Cached
  • 1. On the face of it, the basic literary genre of Genesis 1-4 is that of historical narrative (as opposed to, e.g., poetry, legal code, or apocalypse).
  • 2. The first five verses of Genesis 5 not only describe events in Adam’s life, they attaches specific numerical dates to those events.
  • 3. The author of Genesis presents the book as a seamless historical account.
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  • 4. Adam is named in the genealogy in 1 Chronicles 1.
  • 5. The interpretation of Hosea 6:7 is disputed, but a good case can be offered that taking ‘Adam’ as a reference to the first human being, rather than as a place-name or as ‘mankind’, makes best sense in the context.
  • 6. The genealogy of Jesus Christ given in Luke 3:23-38 traces all the way back to Adam.
  • 7. In Matthew 19:3-9, in answer to a question about divorce, Jesus refers the Pharisees back to the account of the creation of Adam and Eve in Genesis 1-2.
  • 8. In Romans 5:12-21, Paul draws his famous parallel between Adam and Jesus.
  • 9. In the same passage, Paul states that “death reigned from Adam to Moses” (verse 14). Paul clearly means to refer to a specific period in human history;
  • 10. Paul’s parallel between Adam and Christ reappears in 1 Corinthians 15:21-22 (also verse 45).
  • 11. In 1 Timothy 2:12-14, Paul refers to specific details about the creation and fall of Adam and Eve to support his instructions about women teaching in the church.
  • 12. Jude 14 refers to “Enoch, the seventh from Adam”; it’s a reasonable presumption that the author of Jude viewed both Enoch and Adam as historical individuals.
  • David Murray on 23 Sep 09
     
    The Historical Adam
Timothy Bergsma

2. Approachability: The Passport to Real Ministry and Leadership - 0 views

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counseling approachability

shared by Timothy Bergsma on 17 Sep 09 - Cached
  • The Characteristics of an Approachable Leader
  • Maintain a “gentle authority slope.”
  • Fight pride and cultivate true humility
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  • Cultivate a Shepherd’s Heart.
  • Guard against institutional dynamics that can undermine approachability
  • See God’s people as he does.
  • Send convincing signals that you have time for people
  • Be transparent.
  • Pick up on hints.
  • See the good in others (even if it seems outweighed by the bad).
  • Listen deeply before jumping to problem-solving.
  • Be quick to confess sins, whether large or small.
  • Be slow to confront sin in others
  • Make yourself truly accountable to others
  • Timothy Bergsma on 17 Sep 09
     
    article by Ken Sande, Peacemaker Ministries
  • Timothy Bergsma on 17 Sep 09
     
    Approachability: The Passport to Real Ministry and Leadership
  • Timothy Bergsma on 17 Sep 09
     
    This is the 2nd of 2 articles that address some of the comment in our Moodle Question for this week (Sept. 18/09), on "Maintaining Moral Purity" 1. Accountability 2. Approachability
Maarten Kuivenhoven

Those Toxic Non-Attenders - 9Marks - 1 views

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Practicing Church Discipline

shared by Maarten Kuivenhoven on 02 Nov 09 - Cached
  • THE TOXIC EFFECTS OF NON-ATTENDERS1. They Make Evangelism Harder
  • 2. They Confuse New Believers
  • 3. They Discourage Regular Attenders
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  • 4. They Worry Their Leaders
  • everyone who bears the name of Christ, as affirmed by your church, yet who willingly chooses to live their lives apart from the covenanted community of believers is practicing identity theft. They've taken Christ's name, but they don't honestly identify with his body, the local church.
  • Non-attenders are not only reverse-witnesses, they're reverse models. They disregard and disobey countless passages of Scripture and fail to image God's character in even the most basic ways, even though they claim to be his adopted children.
  • Second, non-attenders confuse new believers. New believers are often a mess. Everything they thought was up is down, and everything they thought was down is up. There is great confusion in the first weeks and months and even years of a new believer's life. They need to be taught well.
  • Regular attenders sacrifice to keep their covenant with their local church. They give their money and their time to meet the needs of other members of the body, which is not easy to say the least. Non-attenders don't do these things, at least not with any regularity. So when a church allows non-attenders to remain members, they effectively gut the meaning of membership, which hurts and discourages the faithful.
  • Hebrews 13:17 says, "Obey your leaders and submit to their authority. They keep watch over you as men who must give an account." In light of this verse, a faithful pastor or elder should feel responsible for the spiritual state of every member of his flock. Like a father worried about his son who hasn't yet come home late at night, a good shepherd doesn't rest until all his sheep are accounted for. Non-attenders makes this task nearly impossible.  
  • NOT ALL NON-ATTENDERS ARE ALIKE
  • Those who live in the area and are unable to attend: age or health prevent them. Such elderly or physically suffering members should be treated with special care. This article isn't about them. Those who live (temporarily) outside the area and are unable to attend: military or business assignments prevent them. Such (temporary) non-attenders should also be treated with special care since their travel for work places unique burdens on them and their family. This article isn't about them.  Those who live outside the area and choose to keep their membership with your local church: distance prevents them. Such non-attenders should be encouraged to join a local church they can attend. This article is about them. Those who live in the area and sporadically, infrequently attend: nothing really prevents them except their own choice. This article is especially about them.
anonymous

Of the eternal purpose of grace. - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 07 Oct 09 - Cached
  • they speak of God after the manner of men, as if he were reduced to some straits and difficulties, by the cross demands of his several attributes.
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      anonymous on 07 Oct 09
       
      The caricature of the Son cajoling an unwilling Father, in all its absurdity is not new!
  • What they owe me I require all at thy hands.
  • The earthy man had all the sons of men born into the world included in him, and is so called, in conformity unto them, the "first man": 12 the second Man, Christ, is called the "Lord from heaven," who had all the elect included in him, who are said to be the "first born," and to have their "names written in heaven," (Heb 12:23), and therefore are appositely called "heavenly men"; so that these two, in God's account, stood for all the rest.
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  • And thus have I endeavoured to show you, how we are to conceive of God's eternal purpose in sending of Jesus Christ to help and deliver fallen mankind.
David Murray

Eternal Perspectives (Randy Alcorn's blog): Counting the Cost of Sexual Immorality - 0 views

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Ministry Immorality

shared by David Murray on 05 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Grieving my Lord; displeasing the One whose opinion most matters.Dragging into the mud Christ's sacred reputation.Loss of reward and commendation from God.Having to one day look Jesus in the face at the judgment seat and give an account of why I did it. Forcing God to discipline me in various ways. Following in the footsteps of men I know of whose immorality forfeited their ministry and caused me to shudder. List of these names: Suffering of innocent people around me who would get hit by my shrapnel (a la Achan).Untold hurt to Nanci, my best friend and loyal wife. Loss of Nanci's respect and trust.Hurt to and loss of credibility with my beloved daughters, Karina and Angela. ("Why listen to a man who betrayed Mom and us?")If my blindness should continue or my family be unable to forgive, I could lose my wife and my children forever.Shame to my family. (The cruel comments of others who would invariably find out.) Shame to my church family.Shame and hurt to my fellow pastors and elders. List of names: Shame and hurt to my friends, and especially those I've led to Christ and discipled. List of names: Guilt awfully hard to shake—even though God would forgive me, would I forgive myself?Plaguing memories and flashbacks that could taint future intimacy with my wife. Disqualifying myself after having preached to others. Surrender of the things I am called to and love to do—teach and preach and write and minister to others. Forfeiting forever certain opportunities to serve God. Years of training and experience in ministry wasted for a long period of time, maybe permanently. Being haunted by my sin as I look in the eyes of others, and having it all dredged up again wherever I go and whatever I do. Undermining the hard work and prayers of others by saying to our community "this is a hypocrite—who can take seriously anything he and his church have said and done?"Laughter, rejoicing and blasphemous smugness by those who disrespect God and the church (2 Samuel 12:14). Bringing great pleasure to Satan, the Enemy of God. Heaping judgment and endless problems on the person I would have committed adultery with. Possible diseases (pain, constant reminder to me and my wife, possible infection of Nanci, or in the case of AIDS, even causing her death, as well as mine.) Possible pregnancy, with its personal and financial implications. Loss of self-respect, discrediting my own name, and invoking shame and lifelong embarrassment upon myself.
  • David Murray on 05 Oct 09
     
    Counting the cost of sexual immorality
David Murray

How to cope with evil speaking - Reformation21 Blog - 1 views

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Tongue

shared by David Murray on 13 Oct 09 - Cached
  • From Charles Simeon (in Hugh Evan Hopkins, Charles Simeon of Cambridge [Eerdmans, 1977], 134):The longer I live, the more I feel the importance of adhering to the rules which I have laid down for myself in relation to such matters. 1st  To hear as little as possible what is to the prejudice of others.2nd  To believe nothing of the kind till I am absolutely forced to it.3rd  Never to drink into the spirit of one who circulates an ill report.4th  Always to moderate, as far as I can, the unkindness which is expressed toward others.5th  Always to believe, that if the other side were heard, a very different account would be given of the matter....The more prominent any person's character is, the more likely he is to suffer in this way; there being in the heart of every man, unless greatly subdued by grace, a pleasure in hearing anything which may sink others to his level, or lower them in the estimation of the world. We seem to ourselves elevated in proportion as others are depressed.
  • David Murray on 13 Oct 09
     
    The Tongue
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