Offer Of Free Christian Leadership Training?
Q: offer of Free Christian Leadership training?
I would like to offer free Christian Leader Training to your staff,
elders, board, deacons, lay ministers, anyone, anywhere, anytime, any
ministry, multi-language translatable and online at:
http://www.freechristianleadertraining.org
Anybody help me?
A:- we know you would _like_ to offer it, but is it worth what it costs?
At first, I was going to ignore your post, but since I had some free time on my
hands I decided to click on your link after all. And I was very disappointed at
what I found. For the VERY FIRST 'article' in your statement of faith is not
even Christian at all! Yet you would presume to teach 'leadership' to people in
the NG!
This is a disaster! For your first article is a most remarkable _perversion_ of
the Trinity. You say:
God is unique; perfect, eternal; and is comprised of 3 personal characteristics;
G-A-A-A-A-C-K! This is COMPLETELY WRONG! You have confused 'person' with
'personal characteristic'. How _could_ you? A 'Person' in the Trinity is one
thing, the Person's _characteristics are quite another. So for example, the
Father has one characteristic He does NOT share with the other Persons, that of
being unoriginate, as He is not Begotten, nor does He proceed from another
Person. But the Son is (eternally or pre-eternally) begotten, and the Spirit
proceeds from the Father.
Why is all this so important, and what does it have to do with 'Christian
leadership'? It is important, because as Lossky says, ALL theology (in the
deepest, truest sense of the word) flows from the life-saving dogma of the
Trinity. And it has a MAJOR impact on what we think 'Christian leadership' is,
because all authority comes from the Father. But its coming from Him is in turn
influenced by what He is, namely a Person of the Trinity.
So, for example, the Roman Catholic Church used to claim that the notion of
Papal Primacy follows