Month: February 2023

Episode 295-The Asbury Revival & How God Works

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Disciple Up #295
The Asbury Revival & How God Works|By Louie Marsh

https://www.christianpost.com/news/asbury-university-revival-moving-to-new-sites-as-movement-expands.html

https://churchleaders.com/news/445275-asbury-chapel-speaker-thought-he-totally-whiffed-sermon-2-weeks-later-christians-around-the-nation-are-still-responding-to-it.html

Youtube Revival link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmPgCmwMovk&list=PLkdr1uFrFTIPcB9UYPJmrI1wfJdVCu2Gh&index=1&t=23s

Asbury Chapel Speaker Thought He ‘Totally Whiffed’ Sermon; 2 Weeks Later, Christians Around the Nation Are Still Responding to It

By Dale Chamberlain -February 20, 2023

During his chapel sermon on Wednesday, Feb. 8, Zach Meerkreebs instructed students to ask on another, “Do you love me?” (screengrabs via Asbury University)

What does it feel like to preach a sermon that sparks a weeks-long spiritual awakening filled with prayer, singing, and repentance, and which garners national attention and sparks hope in the hearts of Christians around the country?

For Zach Meerkreebs, it actually didn’t feel that great. In fact, he thought the sermon had bombed.

“Latest stinker. I’ll be home soon,” Meerkreebs reportedly texted his wife after delivering a chapel sermon on the morning of Wednesday, Feb. 8, in the Hughes Auditorium of Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky.

Meerkreebs later told The Free Press he was certain that he had “totally whiffed” the sermon.

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Episode 294-Is John MacArthur Enabling Abusers

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Disciple Up # 294
Is John MacArthur Enabling Abusers?
By Louie Marsh, 2-15-2023

Grace Community Church Rejected Elder’s Calls to ‘Do Justice’ in Abuse Case

While a former leader hopes for change, women who sought refuge in biblical counseling at John MacArthur’s church say they feared discipline for seeking safety from their abusive marriages.

KATE SHELLNUTT| – FEBRUARY 9, 2023 03:00 PM

 https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2023/february/grace-community-church-elder-biblical-counseling-abuse.html

 Last year, Hohn Cho concluded Grace Community Church had made a mistake. The elders had publicly disciplined a woman for refusing to take back her husband. As it turned out, the woman’s fears proved true, and her husband went to prison for child molestation and abuse. The church never retracted its discipline or apologized in the 20 years since.

 As a lawyer and one of four officers on the elder board at Grace Community Church (GCC), Cho was asked to study the case. He tried to convince the church’s leaders to reconsider and at least privately make it right. He said pastor John MacArthur told him to “forget it.” When Cho continued to call the elders to “do justice” on the woman’s behalf, he said he was asked to walk back his conclusions or resign.

 No one from GCC responded to requests by CT to discuss the church’s counseling philosophy or response to abuse, or to questions about specific cases. Six pastors and elders were contacted for comment by phone and email repeatedly over a three-week period prior to this article’s publication, as well as one former pastor and elder. (Update: Following publication, Grace Community Church released a statement: https://www.gracechurch.org/news/posts/3672 “Our church’s history and congregation are the testimony.”)

 “Now that the facts are indeed known, it is not too late to ‘do justice’ even at this late stage, almost 20 years later,” he wrote to the elder board. “One’s own integrity, and upholding justice and righteousness, and being faithful even in the small things, even for something 20 years ago, all matter immensely.”

 “They sided with a child abuser, who turned out to be a child molester, over a mother desperately trying to protect her three innocent young children. “Numerous elders have admitted in various private conversations that ‘mistakes were made’ and that they would make a different decision today knowing what they know now.”

 After that, Cho said, he was told by elder board chair Chris Hamilton that he would need to “walk back” his findings about the church’s mistakes if he wanted to remain an elder. (Hamilton did not respond to requests for comment.) Cho and his wife resigned their membership the next day.

 “the man who taught me that was John MacArthur.”

Those are just a few excerpts from this article, which I urge you to read in full!

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Episode 293-Stewardship IS Good Leadership Pt 2

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Disciple Up #293
Stewardship IS Good Leadership, Pt. 2
By Louie Marsh, 2-8-2023

LESSON TWO:

Good stewards serve Jesus not Tradition.

1) WATCH OUT  for counterfeit philosophies.

 See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ. Col. 2:8

3 Characteristics:

  • HOLLOW
  • DECEPTIVE
  • BASED ON HUMAN TRADITION

 

  • Basic principles of this world

 

2) GRASP your fullness in Christ!

 

  • BELIEVE that Christ is GOD in human form.

 For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, Col. 2:9

  • FIND spiritual fullness in Christ alone!

 and you have been given fullness in Christ, who is the head over every power and authority. Col. 2:10

 SEAL this fullness through baptism.

 In him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of the sinful nature, not with a circumcision done by the hands of men but with the circumcision done by Christ, having been buried with him in baptism and raised with him through your faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead. Col. 2:11-12

 For in Christ there is all of God in a human body; so you have everything when you have Christ, and you are filled with God through your union with Christ. He is the highest Ruler, with authority over every other power.  When you came to Christ, he set you free from your evil desires, not by a bodily operation of circumcision but by a spiritual operation, the baptism of your souls. For in baptism you see how your old, evil nature died with him and was buried with him; and then you came up out of death with him into a new life because you trusted the Word of the mighty God who raised Christ from the dead. Col. 2:9-12 (LB)

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Episode 292 Stewardship IS Good Leadership

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Disciple Up # 292:
Stewardship As Leadership
By Louie Marsh, 2-1-2023

LESSON ONE:

 1st Leadership Principle in the U.S. Marine Corps is this: “Know Yourself – Seek Self Improvement”

 To know yourself as a Christian leader is to know all you have and are comes from God. It is to know you are a steward.

  • Seeking self-improvement isn’t trying to exalt yourself, but to become more like Christ.

 All done from a Stewardship Centric point of view.

  • Leadership

Stewardship as Leadership “7For an overseer, as God’s steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain,” (Titus 1:7, ESV)

  • Good, Better, Best
  • Good stewards chose good over bad, better over good, and best over better.
  • They ask, “How can I do or be better?”

 Moses excuses

 1st Excuse – They Won’t Listen

“1Then Moses answered, “But behold, they will not believe me or listen to my voice, for they will say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you.’ ”” (Exodus 4:1, ESV)

  • God’s Answer – miraculous proof

“8“If they will not believe you,” God said, “or listen to the first sign, they may believe the latter sign. 9If they will not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, you shall take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground, and the water that you shall take from the Nile will become blood on the dry ground.”” (Exodus 4:8–9, ESV)

2nd Excuse – Which God?

“13Then Moses said to God, “If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?”” (Exodus 3:13, ESV)

  • Provides His Sacred Name

 “14God said to Moses, “I am who I am.” And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘I am has sent me to you.’ ”” (Exodus 3:14, ESV)

 3rd Excuse – I can’t talk well.

“10But Moses said to the Lord, “Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and of tongue.”” (Exodus 4:10, ESV)

  • Answer – God can.

“11Then the Lord said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the Lord? 12Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak.”” (Exodus 4:11–12, ESV)

4th Excuse – He gets honest

“13But he said, “Oh, my Lord, please send someone else.”” (Exodus 4:13, ESV)

  • God Shuts Down the Debate

“14Then the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses and he said, “Is there not Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Behold, he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart. 15You shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth, and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth and will teach you both what to do. 16He shall speak for you to the people, and he shall be your mouth, and you shall be as God to him. 17And take in your hand this staff, with which you shall do the signs.”” (Exodus 4:14–17, ESV)

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