What If Your Pastor is Thrown in Jail?

What If Your Pastor is Thrown in Jail?

Losing a pastor to confinement for a short time or even longer has profound consequences for a congregation. Yet a faithful pastor’s biblical preparation can help his flock respond with sound wisdom and grace-filled faith in unexpected and fearful circumstances. Thankfully, whether our churches are large or small, whether we’ve had much teaching or only a little, God has given us everything we need in His Word to “keep calm and carry on” in a God-honoring way in difficult and trying circumstances.

If your pastor is thrown in jail, what should you do?

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What to Do When the End of the World is at Hand

What to Do When the End of the World is at Hand

What would you do if you knew today would be your last day? It’s important for us to understand that faithfulness and obedience to God’s Word matters, all the way up to the last moment we live and breathe on earth. We are indeed living in the last days (James 5:8; 1 John 2:18), as all believers have done since the New Testament era began after Jesus’ death. The Bible also tells us that as the day of Christ’s return draws near, life will grow increasingly more difficult, especially for believers, as the world the world grows more openly hateful of God and His people (2 Timothy 3:1). Yet, we can gain courage by searching the Scriptures for God’s focused, narrowed down, “do the most important stuff” instruction for living well to the very end.

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