That's a great story. I like to read the comments section. Thanks for sharing.

A blessing indeed! Can I ask though, are they cessationist?

@@NicholasPaulFranks What is that?

@@sonnypruitt6639 someone who believes that the gifts of the Holy Spirit “ceased” with the passing of the Apostles, and that therefore the sufficiency of the Scriptures are at odds with the gifts being in operation in the Church today.

Am I correct in saying that there are different theology schools teaching different doctrines? I heard a charasmatic pastor say they opted to do their train in a private college that didnt teach the traditional theology degree. Isnt that where the divide begins and where strange interpretations come from. How are these learning institutions recognised?

Amen, I couldn't agree more. Dr. Lawson is God's special gift to his Kingdom, and to US.

"preach"? You mean obey. Anyone can preach. You people don't want to OBEY GOD'S SIMPLE WORDS.

@@DamirVidovic-pf2pkWhen a Pastor obeys The Lord, he is expected to preach, teach, exhort, and share from the Holy scriptures with fear and trembling.

You want expository Bible preaching. I think something close to Bible bus ministry from J. Vernon McGee. It's on the radio. Where the preacher fears God and wants to get the Word out.

@@mrtdiver yes..I know the teacher I have been listening to makes me sit forward in my seat...it stirs me and I feel close to YESHUA...you don't get that in any church I have been to....except a messianic church I went to a few times but they were small and merged with a larger that is to far for me to drive. So I have bible study daily except one day a week. I feel at least I am full at the end of the teaching.

Memorize the Bible and meditate on it like psalm 1 says. 😮

@@ErranPierce that's one thing I'm not able to do believe me I've tried. But when I need assistance HOLY SPIRIT brings up the WORD I need.

@@mrtdiver that's not "fearing" God. God's Word is the Bible. It's Simple and easy to understand. Just OBEY it. But you people refuse. Read Matthew 25. And the rest....

The two are not mutually exclusive. It is often through training that the Holy Spirit reveals that a person has not been led into ministry.

Again, ministers should only focus on study and preaching the Word, and a thorough seminary training in Greek and Hebrew avoids misinterpretation of the Word which leads to dangerous doctrinal error!

@@kwfinken Jesus calls Every Follower of His into the "ministry". Pastors are wolves in sheep's clothing. We stay away from them. You sound prideful. Do you obey Matthew 25?

@@timothysaye5535 wrong. God's instructions are simple that a child can understand them. People just don't want to obey and want their "ears tickled". Hypocrites

yes!! and i believe we are in the last days.

Hi Caryn how are you doing

Good point definately, and SCN possibly...

Oh look another Jesus following Guitarman

@@andrewclemons8619 Proud to meet you!

Reformed theology is Satanic. God's Word is simple. A child can understand His Word. Pastors complicate it so we stay away from pastors.

We recommend checking out the TMS (The Master’s Seminary) Church Finder (tms.edu/find-a-church/). While we cannot vouch for every church listed, it is a helpful start to point you in the right direction!

Very hard...that's true

It's in HIS WORD. Look to Jesus. Read His Word. It's Simple. Don't Complicate things and thus disobey Him by going to a church building and pastor.

@@kristenspencer9751 Reading His Word and obeying is Not Hard. Your soul is hardened if you need a person/people to teach you something better than the Holy Spirit.

Why not preaching The Gospel? The bible is abaut many things/times/covenants. The Gospel is all about Christ. The bible is not Lord. Christ is Lord.

@@bernhardbauer5301 yes I totally agree. All biblical preaching points to Christ.

@@HickorySpringsKY Not all scriptures are considered in the new covenant. Acts 15:28-29: 28 For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things; 29 That you abstain from anything offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if you keep yourselves, you shall do well. Farewell. Abstain from 1.anything offered to idols 2. from blood 3. from things strangled 4. from fornication This can be found in Acts three times.

Thanks for sharing this story. Expository preaching is the way. We need to glorify God by teaching his whole counsel. And we do that by actually going through the entire Bible. Must people don't get that; both laymen and pastors. They would rather tell a story and sprinkle "proof texts" (verses) over it to validate their sermon. The modern day sermon is wrong; wrong teaching. Pastors say this: "The Lord laid on my heart... " And they proceed to tell us a personal story, which is their sermon. When is the Lord going to lay on your heart a book of the Bible, rather than your personal story?

I wonder how many congregants of this church will be in Hell for eternity?

@@mrtdiver and who obeys Jesus? And who loves Him with their whole heart and their neighbor as themselves? Do you? Of course not. Do you try your best to do it? Of course not. But you talk about... People go to church to hear a sermon they claim sounds good but they don't obey Simple, Easy instructions. A child can understand and Obey God's Word much better than an adult. An adult wants it their way rather than God's simple way. Do you obey Matthew 25?

@@mrtdiver we stay away from church buildings. Jesus would condemn the church goers today like He did the Pharasees

@@bigsteamy you need to PREACH to YOURSELF and DO as the Bible says. Try DOING that.

As long as Sunday is the status quo, NEVER expect reform. It's not my fault the vast majority of professing Christianity is the deliberate subject of 1 John 2:3-4, and I blame clergy, while the Bible is accessible by all, and not ONE WORD about Sunday being holy or, "the Lord's day". When you can explain why this catastrophe exists, you will have a disciple. Is it Satan?

No one was bored with the sermons recorded in the bible... if people preached like that we'd have change

At what age do you think people should stop going to church? Is it 55 or is that too old, or is it 64 and you are out. I know this sounds dishonest as a question but clearly it has merit.

This is an arrogant and entitled story. I don't even call it a testimony. Shame on you.

@@richard8242 you’re offended over something that was not said or implied. But let’s face some reality, if the church has 30 people and they’re all over 75 years old without having a baptism in over 20 years, that is a dying church. If your church is small church with only elderly attendees it’s time to ask what will your church look like in 10 years. Oddly enough the church I now pastor isn’t even 20 miles way and is 125 years old, has elderly and young families with no problems and one of their requirements of me was expository preaching, something the last church knew nothing about. You can be offended all you want that your church is dying or dead and only has elderly people in it, but it’s not the cultures fault, pastors fault, or anyone else’s fault, it is the fault of those sitting there every Sunday refusing to make any changes and refuse to do anything to actually further the Gospel in a personal and meaningful way, while thinking their church can grow if they just hire a young pastor with a family.

@@lkae4 it’s nothing short of the truth. I am sure you’re offended because something I said must have described your own church. Might I offer a bit of advice, ignore everything else you might be thinking and make it a point to share the Gospel with someone today and invite them to go with you to church tomorrow. Instead of wasting your time being offended for no reason and as making assumptions about a pastor you don’t even know who faithfully preaches the Word of God, just do what you’re commanded to do by Christ and go make a disciple and maybe consider doing something to actually help your church.

@@christophercunningham5434 Are you a good person?

Sooo sad😂

@@kevinacres1699 Repent

@@richard8242 because its sad that soo many churches are worshiping this world's system then the true living Christ. I will take the scars of my savior over accepting this worlds doctrine and rebellion

@@kevinacres1699 I am sorry if I misinterpreted your comment. Christ is King!

@@richard8242 amen. Christ alone! No problem brother. Stay strong and faithful.👍

How can you be a pastor? You couldn't get Mathew 10:28 right. It's as if hell is a place where the unforgiven live in torment for eternity, instead of the truth. Hell, is the GRAVE, the pit, the abode of the DEAD. 10:28... DESTROY, not remain living. Never mind. Your Sunday keeping convicts you as it is. Sue your seminary for malpractice, you will win.

​@@eltonron1558spot on, the dead have died! There is no hellfire place of torment, it's a satanic teaching to scare people and to smear God's name

​@@eltonron1558What are you talking about? He quoted it correctly. Please learn sentence structure before spewing accusations.

@oscarfabi_ Small problem. He did NOT quote it correctly. He completely missed the part about who can DESTROY, body, and soul, in the grave(hell). The difference is ,the truth. You die in hell. You don't go on living, as if the wage of sin is the gift of life, to suffer and burn for eternity.

@@eltonron1558 Ok I see, I'm not used to the english translations since I'm Swedish, I apologise. But do you really think that he is denying that? I don't see it, we all know the wages of sin is death. Our only hope is in Christ and to repent and trust what He has already accomplished through His life, penal substitutionary atoning death and bodily resurrection.

How does one become fully immersed and saturated by the Holy Sprit? What does that mean? Is it a feeling? Is there a protocol you follow to accomplish this? If so, where do you find this protocol?

No preacher does that

@HaroldZwingley I'm still waiting to hear what he means by completely saturated with and fully immersed...I don't think he can tell us. How does one accomplish this? How does one know when they've become fully saturated and fully immersed? Where is the Scripture reference for this? I'm not trying to be a jerk about this. I'm a pastor and have been preaching and teaching for over 15 years. I agree we need the Spirit's anointing to preach and teach effectively. But the statement to me sounds like religious jargon that doesn't have an objective meaning. We do have a Scriptural reference for studying the Word to show ourselves approved. That can be taught and explained to all believers and is Scriptural. The above statement sounds pious and most of the church would just "Amen" without even thinking about what it means because it sounds spiritual. But can you teach us how to become fully saturated and fully immersed in the Spirit? If so, I would like to learn to make sure I am before the next time I preach...

First of all, a preacher must be born-again. A preacher must be called by God to be a preacher. A preacher that is God called must get alone with God daily and seek His Face and Praise Him and Worship Him and ask Jesus to come and give him the words to say. A man of God that is annointed by God will preach what the HolySpirit leads him to say. A man of God does not preach ichy ears. A true man of God will want the HolySpirit to have his way. A preacher should be led by the HolySpirit not by education, man's thinking, man's ways. A man must let the HolySpirit have His way! We all need Jesus! It is Jesus that breathes life and speaks life into our souls. It is only Jesus that can make His Word alive to us. There is scripture that says 11 Timothy 3:5 Having a form of godliness but denying the power there of: from such turn away. Jesus can do anything. We serve a Mighty God! A lot of preachers and people have a religion they do not have a personal relationship with Jesus. The answer for all us is to Get alone with God and seek His Face, Praise Him, Worship Him, give Him Glory due unto His Name! Keep asking Him to come and speak to us and keep Reading His Word. Keep calling upon Jesus to come and fill us up with His precious living water. We must keep talking to Jesus, keep calling upon Him until He comes. Jesus can come and restore our souls. Jesus can soften our hearts that can get hardened. Jesus can breathe hope back into our souls. He can heal the broken hearted. He can lift the heavy burdens. When we become thirsty, he can come and fill us up with His precious living water. When we get hungry, he can feed us with the bread of life, His Holy Word, until we are filled. JESUS IS WORTHY TO BE PRAISED! ALL GLORY GOES TO HIM! Let us be looking for Jesus to come and speak to us each day!

Very well put.

Hi joanne how are you doing today

If they were to go to seminary, where would you go? I would venture to say that there are very few trustworthy Bible colleges / universities. I seen the downfall of my own Bible college - Multnomah in Portland, OR. They began to produce female preachers and pastors (like there is such a thing).

@mrtdiver I agree. I'm sure there are good ones, but I don't believe any elder should be disqualified based on a seminary education. People learn differently.

@mchristr ---> It is amazing how faaaaarrrrr away from the original New Testament, 1st century churches/assemblies/chapels/congregations the modern churches / denominations have gone. Church elders and deacons are supposed to come from the congregation. Seminaries and College degrees are NOT mentioned in the N.T. at all. "Search Committees" are a human invention.

What is the gospel?

The gospel is wrapped up in the birth of Jesus, His sinless life, Jesus crucified, Jesus resurrection, and his ascension. Obtaining salvation by faith in believing Jesus died for the atonement of our sins and has risen and is sitting on the right side of the father. We ask that he comes into our lives and make us the people he wants us to be. And than the work of sanctification begins

@donalddunbar2721 I was asking the Rogue, but since you bit, what you described as the gospel, is actually the message/teaching of salvation. Christ declared what the gospel is, and Christianity doesn't preach it. It preaches what you just preached. Why can't Christianity preach the gospel as Christ TAUGHT it? Mt. 24:14 Mk. 1:14-15 As long as Christianity preaches salvation as the gospel, Christ will NOT return. It's maddening. The gospel is in the 2nd verse of the frigging Lord's prayer, and Christianity can't get it right. You either, in the face of scripture. Why can't Christianity read for itself what the gospel is? I HAS to be the influence of Satan, long before our generations, to declare a false gospel, which is ANOTHER gospel, being called the gospel. Or maybe Christianity is not able to read?

@@eltonron1558 I think you are asking a question you know the answer to. The gospel’s were written by the apostles who were inspired by God through Christ to teach His word in truth, in love without compromise. You appear to be looking to debate or tell me what is the right or wrong answer. Your answers like mine cannot be judged righteously by man which is why we call them opinions. Only God is the ultimate judge of what fair and true. Stay in Christ

@RogueRepublican You stated you want the gospel taught as God would teach it. Now you know why I asked. It certainly is NOT being preached by status quo Christianity. I want it taught as Christ taught it, and there is plenty of scripture in which he calls it the gospel, while the status quo, completely prevents his return. It feels an impossible task to ask Christianity to preach the gospel as Christ taught it. This former atheist, is as frustrated as that guy crying from the wilderness. That guy that declared the gospel before Christ did.

How odd that only I gave your comment a thumbs up. But you are correct.

Well spoken.

Yes, churches are run like businesses rather than people coming together, seeking God in prayer and asking Him. We have a form of godliness denying its power. Lord, we need help!! We are nothing apart from You.

I agree, but the problem is that people from all camps (which our calvinist/reformed friends are not exempt) run their churches and seminaries according to business models in the name of Jesus and 'biblical doctrine'.

God will use such circumstances, but should that be the norm? God rescues us in a tough situation, but that doesn't mean we should intentionally get in the tough situation. The Holy Spirit can and does work through Godly preparation and study.

Jonathan Edwards 'Sinners in the Hands of an angry God. Jonathan Edwards Triple Jump World Record Holder. Who has the Gold Medals? or crown? The one who lays it down before the Lamb Of God, slain before the foundation of the world.

Gotta be repentent, otherwise endless lament.

@@kwfinken "godly preparation and study"? That's where you're putting man's ignorance above God. God's words and insurrections are SIMPLE You people just don't want to OBEY.

Agreed.

Needs to be a true calling