Sunday, September 22, 2013

Mission Statement for Peter, James and John Reformed Baptist Ministries in Seeking Confessional Unity Among the Reformed Eldership

The Mission of this Bible Ministry:

1.)  To Seek An Biblical Yet "Unecumenical Ecumenical" Unity Between All Reformed Baptist and Presbyterian Believers, Local Churches and the Reformed Leadership Concerning Confessional Truth on the Position of the Eldership

2.)  To Seek A Biblical Unity on the Scriptural-Based Understanding of a Plurality of More Than One Elder and Deacon in Light of the Gospels and the Book of Acts

3.)  To Seek a Steady Yet Biblical and Continued Unity on How Someone is Right With A Holy God in the life and death of Christ Alone and Non-lawless Christian living

4.)  To Seek Reformed Yet Not Uncompromised Unity On the Reformed Leadership Among Those of the Confessional Standards in the Reformed Baptist and Presbyterian Faiths

5.)  To Seek A Rejection of the Popes, Anti-Popes, High Titles of Rome, Orthodoxy and Exalted Vestments of High Anglicanism With A Pursuit to Abolish the "Spiritual Cross-Dressing" of Famine and Gay Leadership in the Local Church Concerning the Plurality of the Reformed Eldership

6.)  To Replace a "Single Elder" or "Single Bishop" With A Equal Plurality of the Ruling Eldership No Matter the Size of the Members of the Local Church

7.)  The Word preached accompanies the Spirit, and the Spirit accompanies the Word preached.  It is my mere and worthless suggestion to also have the practice of John Calvin in having the celebration of the Eucharist or Communion every Sunday after the Word is preached, because both the Word preached and Luther's "Sacrament of Eucharist" should go together without monthly submissions but weekly submissions.

8.)  Another "suggestion" to "change things" is to have every Reformed elder and deacon whether Baptist or Presbyterian to create a "preaching blog everyday" at www.google.com or www.wordpress.com.  I realize church people have different times to work so this would give them the freedom to access the "sermon" online but you must tell the local church members your blog site.  Use the Bible to figure out what your ministry name should be unless you decide to use your church name.

9.)  Have a fellowship meal every four weeks because this is how Jesus taught some of His lessons and how the people of God fellowship in the friendship of Jesus. 

10.)  Brothers and sisters should get married with one man and one woman as a Reformed couple and than another couple as one man and one woman in the same wedding.  Why?  It is my view that this gives the couples a better safety net because they have another couple that went through what they have in marriage and have support from someone who sees it through their eyes in a personal way.  That is, "whatsoever is right."  My goal is to cut down on the divorce in the local church as a practical solution in light of plain reason.

"For this reason I left you in Crete, that you would set in order what remains and appoint elders in every city as I directed you..."  (Titus 1:5 NASB).

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