He also said a proposed amendment to the SBC’s constitution to bar churches with women pastors violated the autonomy of local churches - a vital Baptist belief.
Gregory Perkins, pastor of The View Church in Menifee, California, and president of the NAAF. “Many of our churches assign the title ‘pastor’ to women who oversee ministries of the church under the authority of a male Senior Pastor, i.e., Children’s Pastor, Worship Pastor, Discipleship Pastor, etc.,” wrote the Rev. In a letter last week, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s National African American Fellowship asked to meet with the denomination’s president, saying the SBC’s recent decisions to expel churches with women pastors had caused “division within the SBC and may disproportionately impact NAAF affiliated congregations.” Now, the leader of a fellowship of African American Southern Baptist pastors wonders if their churches will be next. It’s really just a gift.Įnjoyed that? Read Tom's answers to your questions in every print issue of Premier Christianity magazine. Subscribe now for £4.Earlier this year, Southern Baptists expelled five churches from the nation’s largest Protestant denomination for having women as pastors. Of course, we must resist any kind of elitism that says “they’re the real deal and the rest of us are just playing around”. We won’t stop loving in God’s new creation, but there are all sorts of things we won’t need to do any more and speaking in tongues will be one of them.īut for now, speaking in tongues is an important reality for many Christians. He’s contrasting that with love, which will be all the more important in God’s new creation. In fact, in that passage he’s actually talking about the ultimate future, and that in the present there are all sorts of gifts which won’t be necessary in the future. Again, that goes back to 1 Corinthians 13, where Paul says where there have been tongues, “they shall cease” (KJV), but he doesn’t actually say when. Some parts of the Church take a ‘cessationist’ view – that the gift of tongues ended with the closure of scripture. Many, many times, when I have needed to pray into a particular situation, but had no idea of what I should be praying for, the use of tongues in private prayer has enabled me to hold people in situations within the love of God.
I’ve never exercised this gift in public, and I’ve no particular desire to, but my cousin was absolutely right. I was very startled.this wasn’t supposed to happen! And she said: “Well, it may be that God will give you a gift like the gift of tongues.” She prayed with me and, the next thing I knew, I was praying in tongues. I remember sharing this with a cousin of mine who was, in a quiet way, a charismatic Christian.
I thought I wouldn’t have a clue what to say to them. The thought of suddenly being plunged into a vivid little community where there were hundreds of people who would come to me for spiritual counsel and help was daunting. I was quite nervous about it, because I had been in academic work for several years. In 1986, I was leaving my teaching post in Montreal to come back to Oxford as a college chaplain as well as a university lecturer. Summer reading guide: 18 books to add to your list.Freedom in Christ founder Neil T Anderson on spiritual warfare, mental health and the end times.Wes Streeting MP: ‘My faith made it very difficult to accept my sexuality’.
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