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Monday Mornings............

Monday Mornings…… Most people start their work week on Monday mornings. It is a day that most people dread. They have just ended their weekend, and often times don’t want to go back to work.    For a pastor, our work week doesn’t start on Mondays, most of the time they start on Sundays, but they can include Saturdays as well if there is a special event going on. So, when Monday comes along, we are already a day, sometimes even two days into our work week. So, Monday mornings for a pastor, means a different thing to the parishioners. 1.     Mondays are for Damage Control Sometimes, during the Sunday services, there are things that happen, that you can’t deal with until the next day. Sometimes its interpersonal disputes, sometimes there are things that failed, in one, or both of the services that you need to fix.  2.     Mondays are for Counseling  From time to time you have people you need to meet with you and you set appointments for Monday.  3.     Mondays are fo

A Look at the SBC through "Fresh Eyes"

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From a young age I have been a part of the Independent Fundamental Baptist Denomination. I was saved in an IFB church, I was called into ministry in an IFB church, and received multiple seminary degrees from an IFB seminary. All of this to say, I know the culture and history of the IFB movement intimately. It is with this understand and with a heavy heart, that in 2015 after 2 years of study, prayer, and soul-searching, I left the IFB to join the Southern Baptist Convention. (Let me say that not all of the churches in the IFB moment are bad. There are many churches in the IFB Moment that are wonderful churches, though I disagree with the methodology, for the majority, we do agree on a theological level. but in the end, I do disagree with their methodology.)  One of the tenants that the IFB movement hold dear is the autonomy of the local church. Now, I say this with the full understanding, the SBC also holds to this belief. But it is hard to convey the degree of importance the