If I only had a Church going....

[MatthewPoole]

I could get this building...

www.churchrealestatesales.com/1385_goodard,_lincoln_park.htm (http://www.churchrealestatesales.com/1385_goodard,_lincoln_park.htm)

$169.9 Thousand gets this little Church...

"Lincoln Park Fundamental Baptist Church" has a nice ring to it. :)

But, Alas, No Church, No flock... No Money.. :sigh:

Someday though...Someday...:prayer:

It is ironic, that I did pray about the Lord Opening a door for me to start a Church and that building goes up for sale...

Just thought I'd mention it...

It's around the Corner from my House!

MP

[Cright]

Ummm.. that church is only about 25 miles from my house! We're practically neighbors!!


Hopefully another attractive offer such as this one will pop into view once your more prepared.


:wave:
Carina

[HumbleMan]

Matthew, just out of curiousity, have you ever considered a tent and a PA system to start off with? I know many preachers who started out on the evangelist/revival/circuit preaching road.

[MatthewPoole]

Matthew, just out of curiousity, have you ever considered a tent and a PA system to start off with? I know many preachers who started out on the evangelist/revival/circuit preaching road.


Uhmmm... it's a little cold here to do that! ^_^

[HumbleMan]

Uhmmm... it's a little cold here to do that! ^_^

Sorry, dude. Don't know where you're at. Sometimes I forget that not everywhere is like balmy MS, where the temp was 75 yesterday.

[MatthewPoole]

Sorry, dude. Don't know where you're at. Sometimes I forget that not everywhere is like balmy MS, where the temp was 75 yesterday.


I'm in the cold north... Michigan, where it's 34 degrees and raining at the moment... :sick:


MP

[MrJim]

Well could get the offerin' plate goin' but ya'd still have to hustle up a flock.

Tell ya what, work in that flock and the building will come. If you're being led you'll be given a place to do your work--just might be a kitchen or a basement for a while...and like HumbleMan said about the tents-that'll work too. Preach down here in PA and I'll come hear ya!

[MatthewPoole]

Well could get the offerin' plate goin' but ya'd still have to hustle up a flock.

Tell ya what, work in that flock and the building will come. If you're being led you'll be given a place to do your work--just might be a kitchen or a basement for a while...and like HumbleMan said about the tents-that'll work too. Preach down here in PA and I'll come hear ya!

Ya gonna bring your Calvinist buddies too? ;) ^_^ :P

MP

[mlqurgw]

Ya gonna bring your Calvinist buddies too? ;) ^_^ :P

MPYou do realize that your namesake was a Calvinist?

[MatthewPoole]

You do realize that your namesake was a Calvinist?

I disagree. Here's his Bio.

Matthew Poole was Born at York, England, in 1624, and educated at Emmanuel College, in Cambridge. He became minister of St. Michael-le-Quernes, London, in 1648, and devoted himself to the Presbyterian cause. However, he was ejected from his charge because he was considered a nonconformist, after publishing a treatise on the value of preaching by non-ordained individuals.
He then devoted himself to Biblical studies. The first fruit of his study was produced in 1669, in the Synopsis Criticorum (5 volumes), a monument of Biblical learning which has served many generations of students.

Matthew Poole died while writing his commentary, English Annotations on the Holy Bible, and his friends completed the work, which was published in 1685 and is still published to this day in three volumes and available in SwordSearcher Bible Software.

Poole also took part in the Romish controversy, and published two very effective works: The Nullity of the Romish Faith, or, A Blow at the Root, etc. (London, 1666), and Dialogues between a Popish Priest and an English Protestant (1667). Because of this he was greatly hated by Papists, and his name was on the list of those condemned to death in the Popish Plot. He retired to Amsterdam, and died in October, 1679.

C. H. Spurgeon (http://www.swordsearcher.com/christian-authors/Charles-Haddon-Spurgeon.html) said of Poole's commentary: "If I must have only one commentary, and had read Matthew Henry as I have, I do not know but what I should choose Poole. He is a very prudent and judicious commentator... not so pithy and witty by far as Matthew Henry, but he is perhaps more accurate, less a commentator, and more an expositor."

Considered one of the great Puritans, few names will stand so high as Poole's in the Biblical scholarship of Great Britain.

Notice where it says..."He was ejected from his charge because he was considered a nonconformist, after publishing a treatise on the value of preaching by non-ordained individuals".

A Non-Conformist? That's hardly a Calvinist. and I've read his Commentary and I've yet to see any Calvinistic Doctrine's in it.

MP
:preach:

[blessedmomof5]

May i ask, what kind of a church it was before?and did people attend? can i assume not because it is for sale?

now do you think it would be possible to rent with the option to buy? i only ask, because how many in your area are looking for churches? maybe in time when the building just sits you could suggest that? ok well thats my idea. might just work and then you get the loud speakers and preach to the whole neiborhood....how far is that from NY, i will come and hear you....

[mlqurgw]

I disagree. Here's his Bio.



Notice where it says..."He was ejected from his charge because he was considered a nonconformist, after publishing a treatise on the value of preaching by non-ordained individuals".

A Non-Conformist? That's hardly a Calvinist. and I've read his Commentary and I've yet to see any Calvinistic Doctrine's in it.

MP
:preach:My friend you need to do a great deal more study before you ever become a pastor. Poole was a non-conformist because he was a Puritan. I have read his commentaries many times and yes he is a Calvinist. I bet you think Spurgeon wasn't either.

I edited this because of some words that said more than I meant.

[MrJim]

Ya gonna bring your Calvinist buddies too? ;) ^_^ :P

MP

I'm not a calvinist anymore-haven't been for 5 years or so...

[MatthewPoole]

My friend you need to do a great deal more study before you ever become a pastor. Poole was a non-conformist because he was a Puritan. I have read his commentaries many times and yes he is a Calvinist. I bet you think Spurgeon wasn't either.

I edited this because of some words that said more than I meant.


Agreed, He was a puritian. My bad, I forgot about that. :doh:

I've been Saved 24 years my friend, I think I know the Bible very well, Thank you very much. Further more, I know the difference between blantant Calvinism... and Normal Bibical Doctrines. :) :angel:

MH
:preach:

[mlqurgw]

Agreed, He was a puritian. My bad, I forgot about that. :doh:

I've been Saved 24 years my friend, I think I know the Bible very well, Thank you very much. Further more, I know the difference between blantant Calvinism... and Normal Bibical Doctrines. :) :angel:

MH
:preach:I received this advice from a man that I highly respect who has been preaching for many years: " Choose your words carefully because someone will take them and run with them."

[JPPT1974]

I received this advice from a man that I highly respect who has been preaching for many years: " Choose your words carefully because someone will take them and run with them."

That man is right
We are to choose carefully our words
Because someone will indeed take and run with them. :amen: