Equipping Saints: The Role of Godly Pastors

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"Here at Riverside we say that the gospel matters too much for our preferences to get in the way. The gospel is too important to do things just the way I want to do them or the way I think they should be done." [48:15]

"Godly pastors stay focused on what matters most and make sure that preferences do not take over the church. Without Godly pastors, the Great Commission becomes the great Omission because it is very easy for churches to become insular minded." [49:59]

"What Paul is doing when he lays out this is what an Elder, a pastor of the church should look like, is he's saying it looks very different than what the world looks like, it's different than the culture of the world, it looks different, you act different." #!!01:05:13!!#

"Jesus lived a righteous, holy, self-controlled life. No one else in all of humanity and all of creation ever lived a perfect life except for Jesus." #!!01:07:04!!#

"We as Christians must be and we as pastors must be completely cemented in the gospel and nothing else because there are always people who want to add to the gospel... if the gospel has to have anything added to it then the gospel alone won't save anyone." (#!!01:08:24!!#)

"Our entire culture is built and bent right now with the idea of telling us what is sin and what isn't sin... but that's why we must be submitted in the gospel in the Bible because then we have an authority not just what we feel like, what we want, what we like, we have a truth and pastors must hold unfailingly to the truth of God's word." (#!!01:09:23!!#)

"The church is a place where a whole bunch of sick people come together, and so the church really needs to be a healthy place so that we can help people who are sick get better and so we can help people who are dying find Salvation...the world needs healthy churches because healthy churches send out missionaries, healthy churches reach out with the gospel, healthy churches invest and equip members to grow and do ministry." #!!35:14!!#

"He reminds us here that we can trust in the idea of eternal life, the truth of eternal life why because God cannot lie... God cannot lie so hold on because you don't know the end of the story yet." #!!40:08!!#

"I know right now you might feel like you're in the slavery mode, you might feel like you're in the pain, you're in the suffering and you may not understand why it's not working but I want you to hear me God does not lie... God is working all things together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose." #!!41:45!!#

"Healthy churches require Godly pastors." (#!!53:32!!#)
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