Episode 95
#95. What's Needed to Shepherd a Church Through Change?
Pastor Otis (O.L.) Buckley is the pastor of Highpoint Bible Church in the Bronx, NY. He shares his journey in shepherding a church through leadership and theological changes.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:
- Preach the Word
- Patience and Grace
- Apologetics and Care
ABOUT THE GUEST:
Pastor Otis (O.L.) Buckley is the teaching pastor of Highpoint Bible Church in The Bronx, NY. He has lived in various places in the United States and has experienced different denominational theologies. He and his wife, Consuela, have been married 15 years and both have over 20 years in business and ministry.
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TIMESTAMPED SHOWNOTES:
01:31 - late 1980s/mid 1990s pentacostalism
01:42 - Word of Faith influence - metaphysical approach to scripture
02:04 - The Bronx, NY syncretism and witchcraft
02:41 - Resistance to the New Testament
03:11 - Show there is no disunity between the Old and New Testaments
03:27 - Praying with the community
03:43 - Coming from modalism to trinitarianism has help
03:51 - The metaphysics approach created the mind science
04:35 - OL had to raise his understanding of God and Jesus
05:16 - Justification by faith is only possible with God still working in me
06:51 - No new revelation, but the Spirit gives illumination
07:36 - How has OL's journey uniquely prepared him to pastor Highpoint Bible Church
07:49 - In a word... Sensitivity
07:52 - 2 Timothy 4 : 2 - preach the word - reliance on the word of God
08:20 - Be ready in season and out of season
08:41 - Be persistent in the first thing that you are instructed
09:06 - To reprove - heling people understand what is proper - correctness
09:17 - To rebuke - challenging people to come out of any wrongness to restoration
09:37 - To exhort - encourage
09:52 - With complete patience
10:36 - Making major changes at Highpoint
11:31 - Wisdom in the content and wisdom in the action
11:49 - Patience goes both ways
12:03 - Wait for the Holy Spirit to work
12:28 - Two way street of grace
12:34 - Church name change
12:45 - Which change was the bigger challenge: leadership or theology?
13:34 - Understanding what people want from what they treasure
13:39 - For example, ex nihilo uniqueness of God - Romans 4:17
13:53 - What makes something attractive? and then expose it to the human heart
14:38 - Preaching Big God theology
14:58 - John 9 : 1-7 - Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind
15:42 - John 11 : 1-16 The Death of Lazarus
16:08 - God uses trials to show His goodness and be glorified
16:20 - View trials differently
16:42 - Why not trust God's omniscience and omnipotence?
16:54 - Romans 8 : 28-30 - God is going to work it out for my good
17:09 - Balance between apologetics and care
17:18 - NYC demands preaching with an apologetic
17:30 - Do the work of the evangelist in preaching
18:11 - Give answer for the hope within us
18:20 - Walking in Christlikeness when faced with opposition
18:54 - Joy inexpressible in glory creates conversation
19:01 - Caring for souls
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