A Christian Perspective in a Divided and Divisive World Where All Lives and Black Lives Matter

My thought is that there is way too much politics infecting our Christian thinking. I know of a guy, though, who has said what I would want to say, but better than I ever could. I can’t condense his words.

I did not listen to the whole service that is in the video below. I listened only to Pastor Schackelford’s sermon, beginning at 37:57 of the video. (Actually, I also listened to the song that begins at 34:30 and loved the vibrato in that woman’s voice.) In fact, I only want to point you to about 20 minutes (ending at 57:40). The rest is great as well, but those 22 minutes and 43 seconds say what I would want to say about our current political situation.

I have embedded this video beginning at 37:57. If that is not working, you can go straight to Youtube. I saw this sermon originally on the Ellendale Baptist Church (Bartlett, TN) Facebook page.

About Paul Pavao

I am married, the father of six, and currently the grandfather of five. I teach, and I am always trying to learn to disciple others better than I have before. I believe God has gifted me to restore proper theological foundations to the Christian faith. In order to ensure that I do not become a heretic, I read the early church fathers from the second and third centuries. They were around when all the churches founded by the apostles were in unity. My philosophy for Bible reading is to understand each verse for exactly what it says in its local context. Only after accepting the verse for what it says do I compare it with other verses to develop my theology. If other verses seem to contradict a verse I just read, I will wait to say anything about those verses until I have an explanation that allows me to accept all the verses for what they say. This takes time, sometimes years, but eventually I have always been able to find something that does not require explaining verses away. The early church fathers have helped a lot with this. I argue and discuss these foundational doctrines with others to make sure my teaching really lines up with Scripture. I am encouraged by the fact that the several missionaries and pastors that I know well and admire as holy men love the things I teach. I hope you will be encouraged too. I am indeed tearing up old foundations created by tradition in order to re-establish the foundations found in Scripture and lived on by the churches during their 300 years of unity.

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