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Families of Faith: Preacher’s Kids – 1
Our ‘Father,’

“Our FATHER..,” we pray. And Jesus said,

I and the Father are one.
https://talkofjesus.com/father-the-hour-is-come-2/

Does that make us ‘preacher’s kids?”

Qualifications to Teach God’s Word

It’s a long list of higher standards to which we should hold the leaders of our church. I do not even qualify.

Do you? How about your church leaders? Does your pastor qualify continually?

Whether hatched before all as a Preacher’s Kid (P.K.) or thrown into the bowl of belief as one called to Christ, the world looks on ‘christians’ with high expectations of our faith and witness.

In deed and in witness we are like: Preacher’s Kids, Elder’s Kids, Deacon’s Kids.
Roger@talkofJesus.com

Summer Scriptural Series RERUN

This 3-part series which did not run consecutively during June & July 2014 will run three consecutive days in the year of our Lord 2021.

It includes familiar Scriptures some churches use for choosing leadership. The HIGH STANDARD of Scripture seems unattainable.

Contemporary churches could find NO LEADERSHIP, but for the continuing grace of Jesus Christ.

Scripture

1 Timothy 1:

Original talkofJesus.com post

PK’s, EK’s, DK’s: Our kids; God’s kids

Original post June 21,2014 – Topic: a true child in the faith

Summer 2021 AD {Scriptural} Reruns
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June 28, 2021
A Picture of Heaven – Chapter 1

A Picture of Heaven Chapter 1 (of 14 episodes)

(Just in case you missed it, here is a link to the Prologue,)

The day and the weeks of that time had begun like any other day in any other week of any other month of any other year.

I say that they had begun that way, not because this day was any different, but because it was the same. We existed from day to day and week to week, alongside the same people in the same places doing the same things.

Some of us went to church when the spirit moved us. Some of us went to church every week (some even more). And some of us would never be caught dead among people who tell us that ‘we have to change’ or we would ‘never get to Heaven.’ But as it turns out on this ordinary day, we all ended up at church.

I recognized some of the people as they walked in the door. They were family and friends; young and old (with some even older). Their smiles were reserved and their embraces seemed more in need of embrace than gifts of hugs. A few held back tears.

We were not the planners of this hastily arranged reunion, but all of us had broken the ordinary busyness of that day and dropped everything from our sacred schedules to meet here at this church on a day like any other: the day of the funeral…

That’s what everyone kept referring to, for weeks and even years afterward:

Do you remember the day of the funeral?

Yes. We all remembered it. I could not put it out of my mind.

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Years ago when I had traveled in Europe I became awestruck at the towering Cathedrals and intricate worn detail of these monuments of religion constructed centuries earlier.

It must have been something of this which brings Jews to speak with some reverence of the Temple. I had seen pictures of many magnificent temples with this same opulence, built like palaces of kings in many lands of other countries with other religions.

What had struck me most about these palatial places of worship was that they seemed to be built more for tourists and pilgrims, than for the poor family around the corner.

And my experiences prior to the day of the funeral seemed to confirm that churches have way too many seats for the number of people who show up.

These churches did, however, often look grand enough for the formal processions of a King or a beautiful bride.

... To be continued

September 3, 2013