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If OP doesn't come back but people still wanna talk, hop on over to Liturgical Christianity: we've got plenty of more low church members and everyone is super chill.
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Bel_Canto posted:If OP doesn't come back but people still wanna talk, hop on over to Liturgical Christianity: we've got plenty of more low church members and everyone is super chill. Is this the infamous fishing from other churches' waters? 
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I can field this since the SBC is somewhat similar to PCUSA in its polity, OP can correct me if I get anything wrong if he ever comes back.Antivehicular posted:You said your goal is to become a pastor. In practical terms, how does that work? In practice, how it works is that a prospective pastor goes to an SBC seminary and gets his M. Div, usually in Christian Ministry or Church Leadership. Afterwards, he responds to the call (which is Christianese for a ministerial job opening) of a pastorless SBC church in the same way you'd apply to any other job. This is opposed to denominations with an episcopal polity, like Catholics, United Methodists, Anglicans, Episcopalians etc. where you are ordained by the denomination and then assigned somewhere. Ordination isn't a function of the SBC at the denominational level, but rather a pastor is ordained by an individual congregation. If the pastorless SBC church likes his resume they'll invite him to be interviewed by the elders (in an elder-led church) or a committee of congregants (in the more congregationalist churches) where they'll ask him about his theological views, his ministerial experience and why he thinks that he's a good fit for the church. Antivehicular posted:Is it an actual paying career that one keeps full-time, or is it basically a volunteer thing? Are you employed by the SBC or some other organization, or are you independent/self-employed? Volunteer pastors are pretty rare, and I've only seen it happen, in descending order of frequency: if it's an interim pastor between the old pastor leaving and the congregation putting in a call for the next, if a church is having trouble keeping its lights on and pulls a pastor out of retirement to lead the congregation, or if the church is ultra-small and they just use a rotating group of the laity to preach sermons and do pastoral duties. Antivehicular posted:You mentioned wanting to take over and reinvigorate a struggling church; can you just choose a church and go to town, or will you get an assignment? Antivehicular posted:Are there enough openings in the Southern Baptist clergy for the number of seminary-college hopefuls?
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Jul 6, 2016 11:55
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There's the 7 deadly sins that most people have heard of. Are these biblical in nature? Is there a 10 commandments type section for these sins or are these sins different from the typical christian sins?
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Jul 6, 2016 17:36
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turbomoose posted:There's the 7 deadly sins that most people have heard of. Are these biblical in nature? Is there a 10 commandments type section for these sins or are these sins different from the typical christian sins? That list originates with the Desert Fathers and was imported into Europe by the writings of St. John Cassian, who listed eight, and their number was reduced to seven by Pope Gregory I, who folded Vainglory into Pride. Their monastic origins are evident in the fact that these are sins that have to do with evil thoughts: combatting the seven deadly sins is an exercise in disciplining the mind and spirit. It has Biblical antecedents, since the number seven is a repeated motif in both the Old and New Testaments, but in itself it's not Biblical.
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It's neat that the OP abandoning this thread has lead to it actually having information about being a southern baptist seminary student!
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