As many of you know, I am candidating for the postion of Pastor at Eganville Baptist Church. The vote is December 11 (prayers appreciated). They recently had me up to do a Q&A session on various theological topic. I've decided to post these here in order to foster fellowship/conversation etc...
Some answers may be edited from the original.
1. Do you believe
in the rapture?
2. Are you premil or almil?
2. Are you premil or almil?
I lumped the first
two questions together because they are asking very similar
questions. Essentially what my belief is on last things and what I
think the timing is of those things. So I thought what I'd do here is go over the Fellowship's own statement of faith, and then I'll
elaborate a bit: We believe in the personal, bodily and glorious
return of the Lord Jesus Christ; in the bodily resurrection of the
just and the unjust; in the eternal blessedness of the redeemed and
in the judgment and conscious, eternal punishment of the wicked.
That's it, that's not
an excerpt, that's the whole thing, and I'll tell you this, I agree
with that 100%, as to the specific details of when the rapture is,
who is raptured, when the millennium is, when the tribulation is, all
of that, there are good solid arguments on all sides of the issue and
you're more than free to choose any of them. My recommendation is
that you don't let your concern for the future and the end distract
your ministry and mission today.
That's my answer, what do you think? What's your position on last things?
-Kevin
