Pastor Shaun Marksbury

Biography; links referenced in the lesson: Baptist Faith and Message , Article 6, "The Church" https://bfm.sbc.net/bfm2000/#vi Saddleback Instagram post announcing the ordination of women pastors: https://www.instagram.com/p/COlsXgCBo9b/  "Rick Warren Reveals Successor, Retirement Date as Saddleback Church Pastor" https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2022/june/rick-warren-retirement-saddleback-church-pastor-andy-wood.html Mike Law's list of SBC churches with female pastors (originally posted at SBC Voices, but the list was taken down, so this is the archive version): https://web.archive.org/web/20230404021912/https://www.baptiststandard.com/wp-content/uploads/Mike-Law-list-Churches-with-Female-Pastors-from-churches.sbc_.net_-compressed.pdf "Video! Rick Warren Rebukes the SBC for Daring to Remove his Church over Ordaining Women" https://protestia.com/2022/06/15/video-rick-warren-rebukes-the-sbc-for-daring-to-remove-his-church-over-ordaining-women/ Ri...

I found these books while cleaning up, and I recommend neither of them.  Still, they illustrate perhaps equal and opposite errors. The first book is The Psychology of Counseling: professional techniques for pastors, teachers, youth leaders, and all who are engaged in the incomparable art of counseling b y Clyde Narramore.  I've marked this book bad theology because the author helped craft the Christian psychology movement and believes a degree in psychology is necessary for counseling. He said so during an interview on the 700 Club where he was asked about Jay Adams. We believe, rather, that scripture is sufficient for all life and godliness, and much of the disease model of the mind is either exaggerated or insufficiently addresses the root causes of problems.  This places far too much faith in the methods of man.  (If you need biblical counseling and you are not in our church, I recommend visiting the website for the Association of Biblical Counselors,...

I recently pulled this book back out for some research.  This is a review I wrote of it back in 2015.  I must have been in a snarky mood that day! Starting New Churches on Purpose by Ron Sylvia My rating: 1 of 5 stars Supersized Church Menu with Purpose-Driven Shake, Bible at market value. A friend gave me this book shortly after I took over a church plant. He thought I might benefit from some of the advice in these pages, and indeed, it provides practical advice. Even so, it’s not an overstatement that this book gives represents everything wrong in Evangelical churches today. Primarily, the book lacks concern for what God has said concerning churches. So, when developing the core values of a church, one should take “time to research churches on the Internet” (57). When planning what to preach, go to a megachurch website to find a sermon series—a.k.a. plagiarism—in case you don’t want to plan an “original series” (146). Readers with no outside knowledge would leave ...