Abusive Preachers

[Socialite]

Originally Posted by hometown guy

Brother Pixler is a great preacher but he is taking his church in the wrong direction.

How so?

And do you base your opinion as someone who knows him and his church intimately?

[hometown guy]

Originally Posted by Socialite

How so?

And do you base your opinion as someone who knows him and his church intimately?

I base my opinion on a message he preached at his church on his website this past summer.

[Socialite]

Today's Devotion was equally good (justification and sanctification -- normally a failed understanding in Penny circles) http://blog.stevepixler.com/2011/03/...h-23-2011.html

(I liked everything except where I believe he is wrong concerning his reading of John 3:5)

And of course, what I would call the indwelling Spirit, I would make distinction between that and Holy Spirit baptism.

[Socialite]

Originally Posted by hometown guy

I base my opinion on a message he preached at his church on his website this past summer.

Link? More info? What about the message turns your opinion into: He's leading his church in the wrong direction?"

[Socialite]

3 for 3.

I think I'll subscribe to his blog http://blog.stevepixler.com/2011/03/...h-22-2011.html

[Consapostolic1]

Originally Posted by hometown guy

Brother Pixler is a great preacher but he is taking his church in the wrong direction.

I have many friends that attend his church, please explain your reasoning. Have you actually been to the church and sat through their services to know if they're going in the wrong direction? I listen to their webcast often and to me it seems like they're moving in a great direction which is focused on primarily reaching their city rather than constantly hammering outward apperances as I've seen some do.

[Sister Alvear]

What is WCC?

[Consapostolic1]

Originally Posted by Sister Alvear

What is WCC?

West Coast Conference, formally PSR sponsored by Bro. M in Fresno.

[berkeley]

Originally Posted by Sister Alvear

What is WCC?

West Coast Conference put on by Vaughn Morton in Fresno, Ca. For some it replaced PSR.

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by Consapostolic1

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I have many friends that attend his church, please explain your reasoning. Have you actually been to the church and sat through their services to know if they're going in the wrong direction? I listen to their webcast often and to me it seems like they're moving in a great direction which is focused on primarily reaching their city rather than constantly hammering outward apperances as I've seen some do.

Originally Posted by hometown guy

Brother Pixler is a great preacher but he is taking his church in the wrong direction.

From the podcasts I have listened to and his blogs (and what others have said about him), he strikes me as a very conservative guy personally, who is using his God-given common sense and ability to study scripture to help determine what is important and what is not. He made the statement in a sermon that if blue ties suddenly became a symbol and trademark of homosexuals, he would stop wearing them -not because blue ties were wrong but because of their association (used this example as an analogy to why facial hair was preached against) and if at some point in the future they STOPPED becoming a symbol, there would be nothing wrong with wearing them again. How is this "moving in the wrong direction"?