PART 2
Remember the questions from part 1 and their answers? A quick reminder...
“Who governs the church?”
Remember the questions from part 1 and their answers? A quick reminder...
“Who governs the church?”
“Is there a board of elders and if so how do they function?”
“Do you believe the Bible to be the Holy Inerrant Word of God?”
“How many do you have in attendance at worship?”
“Did you or the Senior “pastor” attend Seminary?”
“Do you belong to a larger church body?”
“Does that body have a leader?”
“How does that leader work with FAC?”
Simple yet direct questions that any pastor should be able to answer quickly and with out feeling backed into a corner – questions any "pastor should expect and that should be on the tip of any seeker's tongue worth his salt – especially that tongue just tasted Chinese!
Yet, brother Josh seemed quite anxious at the questions raised and seemed to become just a tad defensive. Answers to the questions above and in order…
“Pastor Ball.”
“Yes, there is a board of trustees that see to the church.”
“Yes, we do believe the Bible to be Holy and without error.”
“We have about 300 members in this church and 300 on a Sunday and about 120 on a Wednesday night.”
“No. We each attended IU. He worked under his father and I worked under him. I did take a class through a seminary in West Virginia
“Yes, we do.”
“Yes, it does – Bishop Robert Martin.”
“He can say to us that we should do something and then we will pray about it and Pastor Ball will make a decision.”
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And now here in part 2 you will see the orthodox translation of these answers as viewed through TRUTH...
"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!" (Yes - this blog is currently sponsered by 'The Great and Powerful Oz' coming to a theater near you)
"The board of trustees basically makes sure that the toilets flush when flushed. However, they drop the Ball when they don't make sure all of the shit that is spewed on Sundays and Wednesdays goes down the drain."
"That is to say when the Holy Bible doesn't go against our own personal beliefs - and by personal beliefs we mean what ever pastor Ball says. It never says the word 'Trinity' in the Bible you know!"
"When we say 300 members we are counting numbers of fingers in attendance or 30. Hey that's not nice to just give us that one finger - we need to count them all!
"If you mean by "attend seminary" that pastor Ball and I studied Exegesis - Isogogics - Typology - Homoletics - Systematics - Apologetics - Christology - Sotariology - Greek - Hebrew - etc. then no. But if you meant that I let brother Ball turn me into a mini-me full of false teachings with no clear confession other than brother Ball's way or the highway then - YES!"
"Yes - some long bunch of letters and numbers and some jibberish that sounds like tongues with a .org on the end." Didn't even offer us a crayon from the Children's Chancel Drama area of the building!
"Bishop - sounds fancy doesn't it? Tends to give us a little more legitamacy among the mainline churches don't you think? But make no mistake about it - the only leader is Brother Ball."
"Truthfully? That bird doesn't fly. That national level thing is more of an ostritch - very flightless and buries its head in the sand when we don't listen - and we don't listen. That is with the exception of brother Ball - he's alot like that ol' E.F. Hutton guy."
Well thank you brother Josh for clearing up some of those answers for us. Should there be a PART 3? You the reader will have to make...
"Pssst. Hey ATF guy? One more translation for you FAC does not stand for Faith Apostolic Church. Truly it stands for Forever Apostate Cult."
+++ (Oops! That's Trinitarian - sorry)
And now here in part 2 you will see the orthodox translation of these answers as viewed through TRUTH...
"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!" (Yes - this blog is currently sponsered by 'The Great and Powerful Oz' coming to a theater near you)
"The board of trustees basically makes sure that the toilets flush when flushed. However, they drop the Ball when they don't make sure all of the shit that is spewed on Sundays and Wednesdays goes down the drain."
"That is to say when the Holy Bible doesn't go against our own personal beliefs - and by personal beliefs we mean what ever pastor Ball says. It never says the word 'Trinity' in the Bible you know!"
"When we say 300 members we are counting numbers of fingers in attendance or 30. Hey that's not nice to just give us that one finger - we need to count them all!
"If you mean by "attend seminary" that pastor Ball and I studied Exegesis - Isogogics - Typology - Homoletics - Systematics - Apologetics - Christology - Sotariology - Greek - Hebrew - etc. then no. But if you meant that I let brother Ball turn me into a mini-me full of false teachings with no clear confession other than brother Ball's way or the highway then - YES!"
"Yes - some long bunch of letters and numbers and some jibberish that sounds like tongues with a .org on the end." Didn't even offer us a crayon from the Children's Chancel Drama area of the building!
"Bishop - sounds fancy doesn't it? Tends to give us a little more legitamacy among the mainline churches don't you think? But make no mistake about it - the only leader is Brother Ball."
"Truthfully? That bird doesn't fly. That national level thing is more of an ostritch - very flightless and buries its head in the sand when we don't listen - and we don't listen. That is with the exception of brother Ball - he's alot like that ol' E.F. Hutton guy."
Well thank you brother Josh for clearing up some of those answers for us. Should there be a PART 3? You the reader will have to make...
"Pssst. Hey ATF guy? One more translation for you FAC does not stand for Faith Apostolic Church. Truly it stands for Forever Apostate Cult."
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