What is a pastor? Is he a good teacher? Is he a good leader? Is he someone good at drawing people together? Is he a counselor? What are his responsibilities? One of the big problems the church has faced is that many people have decided to follow the brick-and-mortar model of a church and appointed themselves to start such a…
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An Exposition of "This Generation" (Matthew 24:34) Part 2
By Michael J. Sullivan We ended part 1 of our exposition of Matthew 24:34 by examining the strong lexical evidence that genea should be understood as the first century contemporary generation that Jesus was speaking to and therefore the language of Christ coming on the clouds, gathering His elect, and the de-creation cosmic imagery (“all these things”) should not be interpreted with a strict…