Victor Sholar

Senior pastor of @MSBCLexKY, husband to @AthenaSholar, father of 4 young men.

[Timothy Brown @tjb654]

On #preaching: “How many sermons have been preached before people, and how few have been preached at them! Yet the sermons that are preached before us are good for nothing, and the sermons that are preached at us are the only ones that are likely to be blessed to us.” – Spurgeon

[Expositors Collective @expositcllctv]

"Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults."

- John Calvin

[Victor Sholar @victorsholar]

@realmattcarr If Israel was never the point then why did God make an irrevocable promise to them? If you deny this then you replace Israel. No other way of looking at it.

[Victor Sholar @victorsholar]

@Tim_Sandborn21 Good morning Bro. Sandborn!!! Our church is currently going through the book of Revelation on Tuesday nights. Please check out our YouTube channel: Main Street Baptist Church, Lexington KY

[Victor Sholar @victorsholar]

@osucowboytc Exactly!!!

[Victor Sholar @victorsholar]

@Gabepluguez This is an extremely arrogant and unloving post. You think it’s godly to drop hints at what church you attended for 9 months just to publicly shame a pastor for being overweight. While gluttony is sin so is body worship to which Paul warned Timothy about (1 Tim. 4:8)

[Expositors Collective @expositcllctv]

“The church that can’t worship must be entertained. And men who can’t lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.”

-A.W. Tozer

[Expositors Collective @expositcllctv]

“The kind of God we believe in determines the kind of sermons we preach. The essential secret is not mastering certain techniques but being mastered by certain convictions. In other words, theology is more important that methodology.”

- John Stott

[Expositors Collective @expositcllctv]

"Do not be too downcast if you happen to have a very bad service... There is a real danger of putting our faith in our sermon rather than in the Spirit. Our faith should not be in the sermon, it should be in the Holy Spirit himself."

-Martyn Lloyd-Jones

[Victor Sholar @victorsholar]

@osucowboytc Amen!!! Thanks for speaking the truth!!!

[Victor Sholar @victorsholar]

@FastbreakHoops5 Jordan is number one. The first player to win MVP and Defensive Player of the Year in 1988.

[Victor Sholar @victorsholar]

@VinnysCorner1 None

[Victor Sholar @victorsholar]

@tanik_tr 😂😂😂

[Victor Sholar @victorsholar]

@expositcllctv Appreciate your response! However, the quote itself isn’t defining the importance of character in preaching but what preaching is, “Preaching is, and always will be, the outer declaration of the inner life.” We are not declaring our inner lives.

[Victor Sholar @victorsholar]

@MattSmethurst @AJWTheology Not biblically true. The quality of the sacrifice and the heart attitude of the worshipper was important to the Lord (1 Sam. 15:15-22; Isa. 1). Christ grants both in His atoning death (Heb. 10:10)

[Timothy Brown @tjb654]

On #preaching: “The conductor must not come between the music and the audience; the preacher must not come between the Lord and his people. We need the humility to get out of the way.” – John Stott

[Paul David Tripp @PaulTripp]

Is mental health biblical?
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Well, here are the two extremes that you want to avoid. The culture, because it doesn't believe in the heart in the way the Scripture defines it. The heart is the center of your emotions, your mind, your will. The heart is the causal core, it's the directional system of a human being. Since the world doesn't believe that, the world tends to biologize everything. Everything is biological or physical. That's an unbiblical view of a human being.

The other extreme is in the church, and it's a tendency for us to spiritualize everything; every dysfunction is somehow a sin issue. And neither one of those two extremes are biblical. The biblical view is I'm a duality. I'm a spiritual and a physical being. The language that is more current is, “I'm an embodied soul.” So, there is dysfunction of soul and dysfunction of body.

For example, I was looking yesterday at an antibiotic, and one of the side effects of this antibiotic, this is very interesting to me, is anxiety. It's not an anxiety that's a failure of hope in God. It's an anxiety that is physiological-induced by a medication that causes you to be unable to deal with the things emotionally that you could normally deal with.

Now, that is a mental health issue. Does it become a heart issue? Sure, it does because everything is a heart issue because the heart is the control center. In the midst of that experience, I could get angry at God; I could doubt His goodness. All kinds of things can happen, but it's not first a spiritual issue.

I had a counseling experience with a guy who had a huge personality change, became a very angry man, and we discovered it was a result of an accident that affected the limbic area of his brain that was swollen. They call that the ‘rage center’ of the brain. He got medication and was fine. By then, his church had already disciplined him for a sin against his wife and family. I heard what was going on; I immediately sent him to a major hospital for a multidiscipline examination, and they found out what was wrong with him.

So, we can't deny the body, and we can't deny the soul. We have to have a category for things, whether you call them mental health or whatever, we have to have a category for body dysfunction that creates behavioral thought-emotion difficulty. And that needs to be part of a Christian worldview; it needs to be part of a system of Christian biblical counseling.

There are body issues. There are mental dysfunctions. We know that there are people who don't process well. Dyslexia is a mental processing issue. ADHD is a distractibility mental processing issue. So, we've got to have a category that remembers that God not only created souls; we're not disembodied souls, but we have bodies. And the fall didn't just affect the heart and the soul. The fall affected the body as well.
#askpaultripp episode 2