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#95. What's Needed to Shepherd a Church Through Change?
Episode 9527th February 2024 • Our Urban Voices • Dr. Alfonse Javed
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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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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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