Pastor Jentezen Franklin now Senior Pastor in California - Page 8

Sandra · #1 08-13-2008, 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Steve Epley

There you go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now if Bentley will have a BAM meeting for him all will be complete.

Hush SE and go make me some peanut brittle!!!

Sandra · #2 08-13-2008, 06:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Old Paths

WOW!

With endorsements like this, the guy has got to be solid on the doctrine for sure.

tic

lol

ThePastorsCoach · #3 08-13-2008, 03:00 PM

Free Chapel in Gainesville, Georgia has over 10,000 come thru the doors on a regular Sunday in two services and then Pastor Franklin flies to California for a 6:00 PM service and has about 2,000 there. He is licensed with the Congregational Holiness Church as FC is CH in GA and then he is licensed with the Church of God with Free Chapel in Orange County,CA.
He was just elected to the Council of 18 of the Church of God this week. He has a large family and two incredible churches.
He is a personal friend and my son Nicholas works with him a lot. Nicholas told me last week - he and Pastor Franklin were playing basketball last week and he stepped on JF foot and like to have broke his ankle. He is a great man of prayer and fasting. I esteem him highly. He says the men that influence him the most are T.F. Tenney, Tommy Tenney and Steve Muncie.

Pastor Jentezen Franklin and Free Chapel is at www.Freechapeloc.org and www.FreeChapel.org . Two pretty incredible churches.
I hope that helps!

Sherri · #4 08-13-2008, 05:41 PM

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Originally Posted by AtlantaBishop

News from Free Chapel and Pastor Jentezen Franklin in Gainesville, GA.

Pastor Franklin announced that he was assuming the pastorate of a church (Jamboree Worship Center Church of God) in Irvine, California and was going to pastor both churches. He said several staff members from FREE CHAPEL - Gainesville will move to California and take care of the church and do the Sunday morning services. JF will preach at in Gainesville at 9 & 11 AM and leave on his jet at 3:00 PM and have Sunday night Service at 6:00 PM at the new FREE CHAPLE OC (Orange County) and possibly Tuesday nights and back to Gainesville for Wednesday night service.
He said he is not in anyway going to move to CA - but he feels this is his destiny and he will fulfil it!

He said - All the bills are paid here and this is NO CHALLENGE at all for us so - I need a challenge. He said - I am CRAZY and I need a Challenge and this is it. He will be on TBN this Tuesday night and make the national announcement then.

He is also adding 2000 new seats to the 3700 seat sanctuary and new offices and a 500 seat Youth auditorium at a cost of $30 million.

The people gladly recieved his word.

This is exactly what we do (minus the jet!).

ChicagoPastor · #5 08-13-2008, 06:45 PM

There is a rumor going around that Bishop Tenney has baptized the Franklin family in Jesus name....

Old Paths · #6 08-13-2008, 07:17 PM

Love those RUMORS!

Really sends a great message to the folks.

ChicagoPastor · #7 08-13-2008, 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Old Paths

Love those RUMORS!

Really sends a great message to the folks.

you'd hate for it to be true....

oh wait, you'd still criticize him

ChTatum · #8 08-13-2008, 08:58 PM

I fail to see how one man can pastor a church on the east coast and one on the west coast. He may be preaching at both, but he is not really pastoring them.

I enjoy some of his sermons, BTW. But this is a power play, nothing more, nothing less.

ThePastorsCoach · #9 08-13-2008, 09:04 PM

The way men pastor Mega-churches is different than the way men pastor small churches. I am certainly pastoring differently than I ever have and with every increase - I am delegating more responsibility to others. Our church continues to be a Pastor led church and I can promise you - BOTH Free Chapels - Gainesville and Orange County are Pastor led!
Please don't judge him - He needed a challenge - He found one. He took the church in Gainesville from about 250 to over 10,000 and now the one on CA from around 150 - dissolved it - sent the people to other churches - started over and in just a few months - over 2,000 are there on Sunday.
You can say all you want - but he is doing SOMETHING RIGHT!
God bless Pastor Franklin!

ChTatum · #10 08-13-2008, 09:13 PM

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Originally Posted by AtlantaBishop

The way men pastor Mega-churches is different than the way men pastor small churches. I am certainly pastoring differently than I ever have and with every increase - I am delegating more responsibility to others. Our church continues to be a Pastor led church and I can promise you - BOTH Free Chapels - Gainesville and Orange County are Pastor led!
Please don't judge him - He needed a challenge - He found one. He took the church in Gainesville from about 250 to over 10,000 and now the one on CA from around 150 - dissolved it - sent the people to other churches - started over and in just a few months - over 2,000 are there on Sunday.
You can say all you want - but he is doing SOMETHING RIGHT!
God bless Pastor Franklin!

OK, but I respectfully disagree.

I am outside the mainstream of modern pastoral thinking, but I believe once a church congregation reaches the size where one man is unable to pastor it, a sister or daughter work should be established with a portion of the congregation moving to the daughter work.

Preferably in a another section of a large town, or a neighboring community.

AB, IMO, pastors should be pastors, not administrators of large corporations.

IMO, I said.