Featured Requesting elder authority/support regarding street evangelism

What is Evan going to do if the girl he finds on the dating site Google him and finds his posting here. I know when I was online dating before I met my husband I Googled any guy I was going to meet in person. I can tell you I would not go out with a guy if I found out he was looking for money, and could not support his family.

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This is so true. I was 31 before I got married to my wonderful husband and while I did not like being single, I learned to take it day by day. We cannot look for happiness in our spouse as they will fail us. Our happiness or better yet joy is found in Christ who will never fail. That is something I keep in mind with trying to have a baby. A baby can't bring lasting happiness and expecting that is setting that child up for failure. Same is true for a spouse of you are expecting them to keep you happy they will fail, and you will fail them in return.

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No sorry there is no biblical support for such a thing and it would only put someone in further sin.Failure to serve God would be that sin. BY the way serving and worshiping are the same thing.

 

Care to tell us how it's biblical to keep pastoring while a person is in blatant unrepentant sin?

Serving (as engaging people with your gifts) can be a form of worship, but it's not the *same thing*.

Particularly in the realm of an office...pastor, teacher, evangelist, deacon, etc...yes one should stop serving in that capacity. It's difficult for a person laid up in a hospital bed who is on the mend from a heart by pass to be out helping other people. Sometimes getting ministered to is what a person should fully concentrate on.

And that is the heart beat of this thread, you can't minister while you're in need of being ministered to...that's like a person who has suffered a gun shot wound to the head trying to give mouth to mouth to a unresponsive person...hard to do when you yourself are lying motionless on the ground as well.

 

Christ does not command all Christians to make disciples. Take note of the different pronouns in Matthew 28:19-20 ("ye" versus "them"). Those identified as "them" have been evangelized and are Christians but they are still the objects of the commission to make disciples. They have yet to be baptized, they have yet to be brought into a teachng observing assembly. Unbaptized, and untaught believers are not authorized to "make disciples" as that would be like authorizing the blind to lead the blind. In contrast, those being authorzied ("ye...you") "HAVE" already been through this process of discipleship already - they have already been evanelized, baptized and taught how to observe all things commanded. Furthermore, this contextual "ye" are those who are LIKE FAITH AND ORDER with Christ in the SAME gospel SAME baptism and SAME doctrine and practice as the commission does not authorize anyone to go evangelize by "another gospel" as such would be "accursed" (Gal. 1:8-9) or administer another baptism as that would be rejecting the "counsel of God" (Lk. 7:29-30) or teaching another faith and order as that would be a heretic who departs from the faith once delivered (1 Tim. 4:1; 2 Thes. 3:6).

Now, all Christians can be gospel witnesses, but the Great Commission is more inclusive than mere witnessing or evangelization as the command is not merely to witness but to "make disiples" and the three participles describe or define how that is to be done (1) Go with the gospel (2) baptize "them" or the gospel converts and then (3) teaching "them" or baptized believers how to observe all things commanded.

When this commission is reduced to mere evangelization or stops at evangelization the result is not obedience but disobedience to this commission.

 

You must take in all accounts of the Great Commission rather than merely picking and choosing the one you want to obey. "Go" preach the gospel and baptizing are but two aspects of a threefold command to "make disciples" (Mt. 28:19-20). The third aspect is "teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded." Look at my previous post and you will see that not all Christians are authorized to "make disciples" because not all Christians have been baptized or instructed how to observe his commandments and that would be like authorizing the blind to lead the blind, as one cannot teach what he has not yet learned.

 

I understand the frustration to some degree. It seems unfair, and you desperately want to be able to change (i.e. remarriage, in this case).

But is it really "plain HELL"?

I know that I wish I could be healed from my chronic illness, but that doesn't appear to be God's will. His grace is sufficient.

I may not feel like it is sufficient (I often don't), but that doesn't really change anything. My illness often gets so bad that I would probably rather die than to go through another day, but that hasn't happened yet (thankfully).

There are far worse fates than being single. Paul even encouraged singleness, and the fact is that without a partner, you are free to minister (in whatever capacity God calls you) without distraction.

 

But he's an Arminian.