This past Sunday the pastors of Murrieta Valley Church had an open forum Q&A and the public was invited. Besides our church members, many people from the community came. In about seventy minutes we answered eight questions. It was one of the most humbling experiences I think I have ever experienced in my twenty years of ministry. Nevertheless, the response of the people was overwhelming and encouraging as they shook our hands at the end of night and thanked us for explaining Scripture and theology.
Here are a few of the questions that were asked from the floor: Can you explain Leviticus 11 and Acts 10 concerning unclean animals and Peter’s vision? Who were all the people that were living when Cain killed Abel? Did the Pope go to heaven? Why could Pharaoh’s magicians duplicate some but not all of Moses’ plagues? How do you explain election to someone?
We were encouraged to do such a Q&A forum by John MacArthur who does a Q&A periodically in his church and also does several at the Shepherd’s Conference. I strongly encourage all pastors to do something like this periodically. It accomplished several edifying things at once: in sharpens the skills of your leadership who sit on the panel, it encourages Bible study and theological study among your congregation, and it illustrates and reinforces our position of the sufficiency, efficiency, and eternal relevance of the Scripture.
Soon we will upload the audio of this Q&A at www.murrietavalley.sermonaudio.com.
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Jason Robertson is a husband and a father and a pastor. He is dedicated to leading and equipping his the Church with God’s word and biblical theology for life ministry, using a combination of pastoral, church planting and evangelism experience. He holds a Master of Divinity from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He is experienced in church planting, evangelism, missions, and the training of pastors and Bible teachers.
Jason has been preaching the gospel since 1985, serving the first ten years of ministry as a Southern Baptist itinerant evangelist out of Milldale Baptist Church in Zachary, LA which ordained him in 1993. He has preached in hundreds of churches in over 30 States and 4 countries. He planted churches in Siberia, Russia in the summers of 1993 and 1994. He founded Murrieta Valley Church in California, which he planted in cooperation with the SBC NAMB in 2001. He also teaches ministry students at California Baptist University.
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