Pastor Gene Pensiero

Pastor CalvaryHanford... Chaplain Lemoore PD & Hanford Fire... You are the passion of Jesus!

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@bennyjohnson Is it fair to ask, "when did we start negotiating with terrorists?"

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@TheGadFlyRising @docpresley2020 The small church I am most aware of is people simply staying home from church.

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@MarkGrote @MikeWingerii A little vulgar, don't you think?

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@CadenJCooper James very much seems to function as a leader over the others. This would be normal for them having grown-up in the synagogue where there were elders and a presiding elder. Co-equal? Yes. One who presided, and led? Yes; nothing unbiblical about it.

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@CadenJCooper I don’t see that there needs to be a prohibition, or that it is an un biblical human tradition. It’s the way the Jewish synagogue functioned

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@CadenJCooper Synagogues had elders. There was a ruler who led & presided. The NT shows us James as a presiding elder.

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@CadenJCooper James stands out as exercising a measure of leadership in the Jerusalem church.

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@AwaitingChrist Literal, future, time of Jacob’s trouble, wrath of God, all Israel saved

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Can we go back to the 140 character max on X? I don't have time to read your tome.

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@farmingandJesus Weekly, and only in the evening! After all, it isn't the Lord's breakfast or brunch.

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@MoussaA41664651 @CherylSchatz Quote: "No, the word is not used only for becoming like Jesus, but its New Testament usage is overwhelmingly centered on God’s saving purpose in Christ rather than on every event in general history."

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@MoussaA41664651 @CherylSchatz 1 Sam 23:1–13 God tells David Keilah would deliver him to Saul. This was foreknowledge... except that David left, and it didn't happen!

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@MoussaA41664651 @CherylSchatz Systematic theologies, esp Calvinism, cannot fathom a relational theology in which God can change His mind. He says that He can and does. We can't dismiss it simply because we can't understand how.

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@TheRealJamieKay Israel did welcome foreigners but it was not an open-borders system in the modern sense. Foreigners could live among Israel, enjoy certain legal protections, and even become part of the covenant community, but they were expected to submit to Israel’s God and laws.

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@CadenJCooper I think it does indicate different roles. Otherwise, why mention it at all? My question is, "how does a plurality of co-equal elders govern?" Especially when there is disagreement.

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@AwaitingChrist Synergy

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@CadenJCooper 5:17 "Let the elders who rule well" differentiates btwn elders. There are also "those who labor in the word and doctrine."

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@CadenJCooper Where in the NT are we told how the plurality of elders are to function as a group? Was unanimity necessary? Was it by a majority? Is it impossible that one man among them might be raised-up & recognized as the lead?

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@CadenJCooper “When conformity takes over, a group can be every bit as wrong as a single individual.”

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@CadenJCooper 1Tim specifies elders have different responsibilities and callings. No passage definitively establishes that there cannot be a lead elder.