YOUR SATURDAY SEVEN

Here is another week of compiled articles! Your Saturday Seven is a hand selection of seven articles from this week that will hopefully be a blessing to you! Enjoy your Saturday seven! You can see more past articles here.

1. WHERE TO LEARN TO BECOME A HEALTHY PASTOR.

By: Bobby Jamieson, 10.15.21

“I’m a big believer in formal theological training, but even more important than seminary would be simply to plant your life in a local church where you can really get to know people and where they can really get to know you—especially if it’s a church that will give you more access to what’s going on in the eldership. It provides great experience if a church’s pastors can actually spare time to bring you along when they do some pastoral counseling or bring you into their sermon preparation process.”

2. 3 CHARACTER BLIND SPOTS A LOT OF LEADERS STRUGGLE WITH.

By: Carey Nieuwhof, 10.13.21

“One of the greatest challenges I’ve faced in leadership is to constantly wrestle down my character issues and blind spots so I can lead (and live) better.  I feel like it’s a constant battle to keep my motives and actions in check. Daily motive checks and honest feedback from people who love you enough to tell you the truth can keep you on the path to progress.”

3. FLOYD RESIGNS AS LEADER OF SBC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

By: Brandon Porter, 10.14.21

“SBC President Ed Litton said, “The issues before the Executive Committee were indeed complex, and it remains true that good people came to different conclusions about the various issues set before them. While I was grateful for the outcome of last week’s Executive Committee meeting, I regret that Dr. Floyd and other trustees feel that this has placed them in a position where they can no longer continue to serve in their current capacities.”

4. DEAR SKEPTIC, OPEN THE BIBLE.

By: Colin Smith, 10.15.21

“Through the Bible, God speaks to us in revelation. He gives us the building blocks to understand who he is, who Jesus is, and why Jesus came into the world, and what God is able to do in our lives today. Jesus invites us: “Come and see.” We discover a God who introduces himself as our Creator. We can look in the Bible and find people who lose their way and a God who keeps reaching out with grace and mercy to make things right with them and to turn things around.”

5. THE CHURCH’S ONE FOUNDATION.

By: R.C. Sproul, 10.11.21

“Historically, the Christian church is, in its very essence, Apostolic. The term Apostle comes from the Greek word apostolos, which means “one who is sent.” In the ancient Greek culture, an apostolos was first of all a messenger, an ambassador, or an emissary. But he wasn’t just a page. He was an emissary who was authorized by the king to represent the king in his absence, and he bore the king’s authority.”

6. SETTING ASIDE YOUR LIBERTY.

By: John MacArthur, 10.15.21

“Exercising our freedom must never come at the cost of offending another brother or sister in Christ. The principle of love demands that, whenever necessary, we willingly sacrifice our liberty for the sake of protecting each other. That is Paul’s theme in 1 Corinthians 8.”

7. DON’T MISS THE MARRIAGE: WHY THE JUSTIFIED LOVE HOLINESS.

By: Marshall Segal, 10.13.21

“Some, it seems, love Jesus for forgiving their sins, for canceling their debt, for providing a perfect righteousness in their place — and then spend the rest of their lives rehearsing our justification, as if that were all that the cross could afford. Make no mistake, the cross is our altar — that central, crucial, and glorious event, that deathblow to Satan and all his armies, that blazing climax of history — but it is the altar, not the marriage.”