PUTTING PASTORS IN THEIR PLACE NOTES

Just found these notes on line for the message I referenced earlier by Driscoll. These notes were taken by a guy named Jacob Vanhorn and posted on his blog "Under Grace In Austin." Hopefully, this will help you get your head around an incredibly powerful message.

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Putting Pastors in There Place
By Mark Driscoll

In The Beginning
God is the first preacher. God proclaimed, God said, God said, God said, and life came from it. Preaching brings life.

Genesis 3 shows us that God is not the only preacher. The serpent preaches as well.

The question is not, “will there be preaching, but what will be preached”

God comes in Genesis 3:15 after we listen to the wrong preacher. God has raised up preachers/prophets since that time to preach with power and authority.

Jesus comes and the serpent preaches to Jesus in the wilderness the same temptation that he preached to Adam. Jesus responds with scripture. And from that time Jesus began preaching. It is not sharing, it is preaching! That people should repent.

You cannot repent of that of which you have not been forgiven of. If you do not offend people with the gospel then you offend God.

Book of Acts
Don’t go preaching until the Spirit anoints the preacher. One of the evidences of the work of the Holy Spirit is the preaching of the gospel. The NT church is birthed by the preaching of an anointed sermon. Proclaim the word with power and authority and people are saved and the church begins.

The air war and the ground war. People meeting in homes brought together for proclamation. Connect the groups to the sermon.

Acts 4 they continue preaching

Acts 6 they pick out deacons so they can continue in prayer and preaching. Do not allow guilt to take you out of prayer and study.

Preach from conviction from God. Guilt comes from people, conviction comes from God.

Acts 7 Stephen preaches

Acts 9 Jesus preaches to Saul

Acts 9:28 Paul preaches boldly

Acts 11, Acts 12, Acts 13 more preaching Acts 14 they continue to preach the gospel. They almost kill Paul and then he continues preaching! You’ve gotta have courage to preach and don’t miss that.

Acts 17 Paul preaches

Acts 18 Paul preaches

Acts 19 Paul preaches

Acts 20 Paul preaches to the Ephesian elders to be aware of wolves. We have to protect our people from wolves. A few wolves can do great damage in a young flock. Preach to our elders the guarding of the flock. Grace, mercy and kindness are for the flock, not for the wolves.

Paul then goes to jail

Acts 26 Paul preaches to Agrippa

Acts 27/28 Paul continues preaching

2 Tim 4 preach the word, you are worthy of double honor. You preach because of Gods call. Turn your critics into coaches.

Putting The Church In Its Place
The church is both universal and local

The church us both visible and non-visible.

The ecclesia means ‘gathering of Gods people’

The gathering DOES matter! The gathered believers are the church. It is both the large gathering and the church sent out.

Marks of the church
1. Jesus is the head. Jesus is not just humble, but a savior!

2. The local church must have called, local, male leadership.

3. The gospel is rightly preached.

4. The rights are properly observed regularly. Baptism and the Lords table.

5. Church discipline rightly enacted.

We must regularly preach the gospel, provide the sacraments and discipline people who claim the faith but do not walk in humble repentance.

Pride births all other sins. The lie is that we can be our own Gods. When we determine truth, the serpent is preaching and we have bought the lie that we can be our own Gods.

The lie that says ‘no preaching, no authority and no church discipline’ is from the serpent. These are all marks of the current house church and emerging church movements. We must be aware that much of today’s church movement is birthed from the postmodern view of the rejection of authority and truth, thus they reject authority and have no designated leader, they reject objective truth and the community determines truth. The rejection of authority also negates church discipline. The serpent still says, “you can be like God’

Two Last Questions
Is an Internet church a church? There is no sacrament, no baptism, no assembly, and no discipline.

Is multi-campus a church? We must think about what a church is. It requires sacrament, discipline, elders, etc. It is far more than gathering and proclamation. Each Mars Hill campus has a campus pastor, elders and church functions.

If we do not define what a church is, then the serpent says, “Since there is no definition of church then I will plant one myself”

The Final Preached Sermon
Revelation 14:6 an angel preaches

God begins with preaching, we continue preaching and an angel finishes preaching.