Questions For God

  Mrs. Sherry Worthington  is the wife of the Rev. Dr. Pastor T. D. Worthington, the subject of my previous post.  She is also the Principal of  Pathway Christian Academy .  From the few issues of  PathPointe Magazine  that I have read, it looks like she is a regular contributor to the magazine. My task in this post will simply be to expose some of her claims as being: 1 - More true than she realizes 2 - Deceptive #1 -  More true than she realizes : "When is the last time we shared the Gospel with someone? We know how terrible Hell is and yet we go on with our day to day lives as if there is no Hell." ~ and ~ "When is the last time our lives made an impression on other people? If our words and actions are no different than lost people , why would anyone desire what we have in our lives? By not sharing Jesus Christ with others through our words and our lives, we become Satan's assistants. People all around us are going to Hell, and ...

  . . . and it goes just as I would have thought - however- this preacher is my former pastor. Many, many moons ago I was serving a stint in the US Air Force stationed in Goldsboro, North Carolina.  I sought out a church and settled on Freedom Baptist Church which, at that time, was located in one of the old uptown store-fronts off Center St.  Along with my wife and son we attended there for about three years, until I transferred again. Pastor Dr. T. D. Worthington was a good preacher, knowledgeable, not prone to emotional outbursts or techniques such as dramatically raising his voice for effect, or pacing back and forth for effect, or wildly flailing his arms about for effect.  No, he was just a good preacher.  But I really don't think that I got to know him very well personally - not near as well as I got to know some of the other men in the church.  I don't remember ever getting to socialize with him or engage in any discussions (serious or otherw...

After a short stint in a non denominational church when I became a Christian in my late teens, I began regularly attending a Baptist church.  And since I was in the military and moved around a bit, I attended several Baptist churches as my assignment location changed.  From about 1978 to about 1988 I attended four different Baptist churches - two Independent (fundamental) Baptist and two Southern Baptist - so - I am a tad familiar with their beliefs and core doctrines.  There are other Baptist "off-shoots" that I am less familiar with though, but this post isn't really about doctrines or beliefs, or at least I don't think it is :( Why do people go to Baptist churches?  I guess the very same reason(s) that people attend Methodist, Lutheran, Pentecostal, Catholic, Seventh Day Adventist, LDS, and Jehovah's Witness (etc, etc) churches - they were either brought up in such a church or were "led to the Lord" in such a church or got disillusioned with their p...

An excerpt from a recent (4/11/22) comment by the Christian author of The Form of the Fourth blog : ". . . my main purpose when discussing God with atheists is evangelism. I want them to experience the same joy and peace that I experience as a Christian. But as a side effect of these dialogues, I’ve become even more convinced of theism . . ." Allow me to dissect: ". . . my main purpose when discussing God with atheists is evangelism." Surely the author is aware that many, if not most of the atheists that he has had religious discussions with, are former Christians.  Speaking for myself, I find attempts at evangelism to be a waste of my time and I usually discourage such attempts - especially - ESPECIALLY - when they come after I have informed the evangelizer that I was a Christian for 25 years.   I do not enter into discussions with Christians to be "led to the Lord".  Unfortunately most Christians just seem to ignore that fact and offer their desire fo...