Dealing With Pastoral Pathological Antagonists

Rev Brian Abshire on May 10th, 2008

The Rev. Dr. Peter Hammond: Frontline Fellowship, Capetown South Africa
A review of “The Wounded Minister - Healing from and Preventing Personal Attacks”
Dr. Guy Greenfield
Some years ago we witnessed an extraordinary campaign of hate and slander launched by disgruntled ex-members against an outstanding mission in …

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Position Paper On Voting Requirements in Presbyterian Churches
Rev. Brian M. Abshire
A fundamental problem that afflicts confessional churches concerns the issue of voting membership. Members have to elect officers, ruling elders, and as occasion demands, teaching elders to rule over them. The problem arises because elders are held to a different standard than the average member …

Household Voting In Presbyterian Churches

Rev Brian Abshire on May 10th, 2008

The early American Republic was based, not on Greek philosophy or Roman political systems as is commonly taught in modern public schools, but on a consistent application of Reformed theology applied to the civil realm. Both the Puritans in New England, and the Presbyterians in the South self-consciously attempted to develop …