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Wishing you all a happy Wednesday on this 28th of June 2017 and I'm so delighted to have back in the program or on the program. I should say One of my favorite guests one of my dearest friends one of my most Enthusiastic supporters of iron sharpens iron radio ever since it first launched in late 2005 2006.
And it's my honor and privilege to welcome you back to iron sharpens iron radio. Bill Shishko director of Reformation, New York Reformation Metro, New York. Hey, it's good to be with you too, brother.
And our friendship goes all the way back to the late.
1980s I.
Can still remember when you were a guest speaker at Calvary Baptist Church in Amityville, Long Island Which no longer existed as you know merged in to the First Baptist Church of America and became the grace Reform Baptist Church of Long Island, but I can remember in the late 80s at the invitation of Mike Gadosh My pastor who had baptized me not Too long or too many years previous to my meeting you it might have even been just a year or so.
I can remember you being one of the first conference speakers that we had or Visiting speakers that we had at that church and our friendship really took hold pretty quickly and it has lasted all these years.
Thank God. Well, well you were the pastor of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Franklin Square, Long Island, New York for many years and recently you've taken a taken on a new ministry Reformation Metro, New York and you're also host of the weekly live one-hour call-in talk show a visit to the pastor's study on WLIE Radio out on Long Island 540 a .m. On the dial which also reaches the tri-state area of New York during daylight hours and.
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Can be heard globally on the internet. But first of all before we go into our study or should I say our Go into our study Go into our topic at hand, which is going to be the pastoral theology project I want to have you explain in a little bit more detail to our listeners who are Just now discovering you for the first time.
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I'd like to know what is the pastoral theology project on the one hand. And yet at the same time do it in a way that applied to get to that. Ended up being is in one week hours of eight to ten minute enable men to without taking a lot of time.
Is the pride for elders great? Well, we'll make sure that our listeners have all the information they need.
To learn more about that as the interview proceeds. But it probably be good now to start with an overview of pastoral theology from the Apostles to the present.
Yeah, yeah, great. Grew up in. Is that turned? Theology go theology can end up. Emphasizing the so-called pride. Really much interrelationship. Our church history. Even apologetic. Third psalm and. It's interesting.
It is out. Not only his own life as that. They are to shepherd now. We have a.
Listener in the Mastic Beach, Long Island, New York who has a question that I think will help to Add to have add to how you have already set the stage here. But Tyler and Mastic Beach, Long Island, New York says is pastoral theology as a whole best summed up in the shepherding character of the shepherd of our souls the person and nature of God found in the incarnate person of Jesus.
It's got all the elements. I actually had the honor of interviewing him before he went home to the Lord. Yeah, excellent. And and that's honors that. Yeah, that's exactly it. And if amen. And I'm also honored that.
Before he went home to the Lord Thomas Odin wrote a very nice commendation for on a trip in Zion radio. So.
Fascinating. Thomas, I mean we could go on but but see Thomas Odin had earlier. Yeah. Life. Oh, yeah. Oh that amen. In fact my last.
Pastors luncheon. The publisher of his autobiography was generous enough to Give enough copies for each and every pastor in attendance of that autobiography that hardback.
Autobiography of Thomas Odin by. I knew I shouldn't have missed that that breakfast. I'm sorry. I said see what I miss. Yeah, I know. Well that teaches you a lesson.
In fact, I actually I actually want to speak to you about that off the air after the show's over because I may be planning another one that.
That I would love to have you participate in as a speaker. Great. All right, good. Great.
Well, guess what. Tyler in Mastic Beach, Long Island you have won the Westminster Confession a commentary By a a Hodge and this is a beautiful hardback commentary. Retailing for $26 and you're getting this for free.
Compliments of Banner of Truth. The United States headquarters of the Banner of Truth Trust is right down the block from me, I don't know about a less than a 10-minute walk from where I'm sitting and Pat Daly and the kind folks at the Banner of Truth wanted to bless our listeners today because they know that you pastor bill are.
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Thoroughly committed to the Westminster Confession, which is a very beautiful summary of biblical teaching. In fact if you could for the benefit of our friends at the Banner of Truth if you could give our listeners who are just totally unfamiliar with that term because I do have listeners from all different Religious stripes even Muslims on occasion listen.
So if you could let our listeners know what exactly the Westminster Confession of Faith is.
Following them John the shorter catechism and along with that a there's a Calvinistic Baptist that you're giving out a thoroughly confession of faith.
Well, I'm obviously. Since the confession of faith that I love the 1689 London Baptist Confession is nearly identical to the Westminster Confession I have no problem giving out the Westminster Confession.
And you know Chris, I read Charles Bridges post recently for which I wanted to shout like a Pentecostal when it came out. English Banner finally took a project a man great and.
Not to derail the the topic here. But a a Hodge just so our listeners know something about the one who wrote this commentary. He was a 19th century pastor preacher Missionary theologian educator churchman the firstborn son of Charles and Sarah Hodge.
Charles was the very first president of Princeton, wasn't it? She have a print and by the way, this is purely a providential occurrence.
Since I received the phone call, but about five minutes before you called I received a phone call from the great-great grandson of Charles Hodge Greg Hodge who has a a ministry a musical ministry a musical teaching ministry.
Called Princeton revival and I have had him on the program in the past and he is going to be on tour and we were. Having a conversation about that. So it's kind of a Providential occurrence that we're discussing a here.
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Well, what could you tell us about? The pastoral ministry because there seems to be a lot of Confusion and debate over what that entails. What are the duties of a pastor? Sometimes? It's it's always a tragedy.
And a sad thing when I see on one end of the spectrum churches that treat their pastors like janitors and. And take him away from the the actual vital roles that he is called to do. And really diluting his time where it needs to be best spent.
But also you have on the other end of the spectrum you have pastors who are either celebrities or or or wannabe celebrities. And they act that way and you only see them behind a pulpit. Speaking on Sunday morning and perhaps Sunday night and then they disappear.
You never they're never to be heard from again until the following Sunday. So if you could what are the duties of a pastor?
And I say that for they don't believe the Bible but as a model for Christian and and here here some reason got a flowered in the 300s under Gregory of Nazianzus and John Chrysostom and get an author of the city of God and saw the great ship the Concept and their illnesses in dealing with them is and yet Jesus took well.
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This is Chris Arnson if you just tuned us in. Our guest today for the full two hours with about 90 minutes to go is Bill shish go of Reformation Metro, New York and host of the weekly live one-hour call-and-talk show a visit to the pastor's study.
We are discussing the pastoral theology project if you'd like to join us on the air with a question for pastor bill. Our email address is Chris Arnson at gmail .com. Chris Arnson at gmail .com. And I usually don't give a full name for a listener, but because Whenever I hear from a pastor Who I am confident.
I Should plug the church where he serves as a shepherd or as an under shepherd. I like to give as much information as possible. This is also a very first-time Questioner to iron sharpens iron radio. I don't know if you know him pastor bill.
I do not know him But he's a first-time questioner. His name is pastor Ned Suffern of Redeemer Reformed Presbyterian Church in Queensbury, New York.
He has two questions for you. Would pastor bill please give advice about how a distinctively reformed pato-baptist local congregation can maintain Its identity theologically while still connecting with believers in Christ who think differently about the sovereignty of God and salvation.
And who believe differently about baptism? Well, here's a good example right now. Yes, he has a second question, but I'll let you address that one first.
No, that's fine. Go through it again. Chris at all. Sure. Would pastor bill, please give advice about how a.
Distinctively reformed Pato-baptist local congregation can maintain its identity theologically while still Connecting with believers in Christ who think differently about the sovereignty of God and salvation.
Obviously arminians and who believe differently about baptism aka people like me.
Have not liked the term and I don't happen. You like Oiko right Baptist Oiko. You've got it. You're learning your lesson. Well, John Owen yet take all of the learning that he. James White and James White and others.
It's really the Understanding and a high view that you dental tradition. We we when we had a lot of the Geneva's come to sing from Geneva College and there they would. That school holds two Exclusive psalm ity which we have showing our Catholicities a church I guess of a and we struggled with what term to use.
Evangelical biblical credible profession of faith. They met with the elders that to the Lord's Supper. That was our way of making a reformed and Presbyterian. We are Catholics.
In fact grace Baptist Church of Carlisle, Pennsylvania where I am a member they open the fence door when Presbyterians are visiting from other congregations and the fact that we have a lot of Presbyterians preach at Grace Baptist Church like Sinclair Ferguson and others and we have typically had announcements made by the elders that the Presbyterians in fellowship with us that they are welcome to the Lord's table if we happen to be having a celebration of the Lord's table that.
Yeah, I think I was how they And I may not have that kind of work are going to have to show that while they may not be out. Amen.
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Give it to somebody else somebody who's perhaps coming to you for counsel or considering Joining the church there in Queensbury, New York, and let me give a plug to them. Their website is RRPCA .org RRPCA .org.
Their I love their slogan where the Redeemer grows faith and builds his family in the foothills of the Adirondacks. Oh, yes, that's right. I'm sorry. Thank you. You reminded me before I went on to another questioner we have.
Do you have advice on reaching unbelieving parents whose children attend youth groups and other children's programs, that's interesting because we had a Listener ask a very similar question recently to another guest.
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Just get it. Well, that was his final question. And thanks again pastor Ned and by the way, I don't think I completed my My sentence about what you've won not only have you won the a a Hodge commentary and the Westminster Confession compliments of our friends at the banner of truth you've also won a free New American Standard Bible since you are a first-time questioner and we thank the publishers of the NASB for supplying these Bibles for us and Please keep listening to iron sharpens iron radio there in Queensborough Queensbury New York and and keep spreading the word about the program.
We hope to hear from you again with another question a pastor Ned and We have another listener from Ben Salem, Pennsylvania Jenny. She asks who is William Blakey and how has his teachings impacted you in your own ministry?
Century, it's a very base formed pastoral theology that was seasoned with. The kind of evangelicalism that really were a mean every healthily consideration of print that really endlessly after that where we had what we call the raw materials for either elder or deacon and We would we would either Read or we would speak with the man and say we want you to know serving as a deacon or an elder and we would Talk with him and always urge him to and desires the off.
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This is Chris Orns and if you just tuned in our guest today for the full two hours with a little less than an hour. To go is my dear friend of many years going back to the 1980s a bill Shishko with Reformation Metro, New York and Host of the weekly live one-hour call-and-talk show a visit to the pastor's study heard globally via live streaming at wlie540am .com and also in the New York Tri-State area, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Rhode Island on 540 a .m.
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If you would like to join us yourself with a question of your own our email address is Chris Arnzen at gmail .com. Chris Arnzen at gmail .com and Pastor Bill. Would you like to have anything to say before I take any more listener questions?
Yeah, let me up and that five different categories one in which I spent the and magically his story and in the last day. This is kind of tip G classes. They took and I I developed but I think and the three things I would if I really don't know of anything like it.
Even in the end in the exist One is second is formed in its character my labors and franklin square and then working with others. It's not a heady.
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And I should add Chris. Oh, well just before I take my next listener question.
Our previous listener Jenny in Ben Salem Pennsylvania when she learned she won the AA Hodge Commentary on the Westminster Confession of Faith that the banner of truth United States headquarters in Carlisle was so generous to provide for us.
She said God works providentially for sure this coming Sunday barring any complications. I plan to go to an Orthodox Presbyterian Church since there aren't any Reformed Baptist churches in my area. So this book will serve me well to better understand those statements that the London Baptist Confession of Faith either dropped or edited.
Great. Well, thanks again Jenny. And we have Scott in Bryan, Ohio. Says dear brother Chris. I like to listen to the pastor's study and I particularly enjoyed the recent ones about Distractions of local.
I'm sorry the distractions of social media. My question is how would he suggest those in ministry balance? Involvement in social media in their lives. I've had him on probably four times, but not not very recently.
I'd like to have him on again. Yeah, dr.
Reynolds is an Orthodox Presbyterian minister up in what was Scott Scott in Bryan, Ohio. Well Scott I've said to people with all of these means of communication He a man of God with young ministers. Our son Jonathan our second of five sons is Is a minister in Queens.
Very fine after the Presbyterian Church app. Terrific. It's an emotional life and so on but the time that goes is time that that much time reading the scriptures and praying. As he would like thankfully he done.
Non-technological aspect, I mean I text thing but see that's not pornography anymore meant men can just be Lesser. And then I guess the third thing and then I mean, how do you know way that really that important like Facebook?
Amen, and you know, I've noticed something over the past number of years.
That.
I'm sure you've heard of the term beer muscles. Well, I think that there is a phenomenon called keypad muscles. Where where people behave in a way they let their anger boil over to an extreme that they Most likely would never allow to happen in person face to face with someone.
And you have these disagreements. Turing turning into these ugly slanderous hateful arguments that have really polluted the.
Internet and have destroyed the reputations of good men and has wasted an awful lot of our.
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Right now I am going to our final break pastor bill. I'm going to email you. I'm gonna forward you an email from our listener in Slovenia Joe because I'm not sure if you want to Take the question because it's off topic.
He is really Challenging you on an area of Pato Baptist Belief and I'm not sure I want any more converts away from Reformed Baptist. I think Jenny Jenny already has become a worthwhile Presbyterian convert.
I'm only kidding you can you can feel free to answer his question if you want to but I will Email it to you forward it to you. So during the break, you can look it over and I just said I just sent it to your gmail account.
All right.
And if anybody else would like to join us do it now because we're running out of time and our email address is Chris Arnson at gmail .com. Chris Arnson at gmail .com. Don't go away. We will be right back.
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We are talking about the pastoral theology project and our email address If you have a question to ask is Chris Arnson at gmail .com. Chris Arnson at gmail .com. And do so now if you intend to ask a question because we're running out of time.
Pastor Bill, did you want to include our listeners question from Slovenia?
Well, I don't know. You're the Calvinistic Baptist.
I'm completely fine with asking the question. Joe in Slovenia says dear brother Chris. Thanks for having brother Shishko back on the show. We are always Sharpened by his pastoral visits. He says my question has to do with the pedo credo.
Baptist discussion among reformed brothers. Presbyterians often cite the cases of Lydia and the Philip Philippian jailer being baptized along with their whole households after the two aforementioned expressing personal faith in Acts 16.
If we can assume that in these family units there were mature adults such as a husband to Lydia and a wife of the Jailer and possibly their parents on both sides and other adult siblings brothers sisters aunts uncles, etc.
Are we to assume that all these unbelieving people without exception for no apparent reason submitted themselves to the rite of Christian baptism? You join a socially Marginalizing religion in which they had no belief and no connection or commitment to either its founder or teachings.
Wouldn't that require a very big stretch of a very active imagination in comparison to the understanding that the Apostle and new converts? Subsequently shared the same gospel with the family members and they too Repented and believed before being baptized.
Thanks so much for your dedicated service to our Lord Jesus Christ.
Well, I appreciate I do very usually that the thing that to say well our view of the New Testament Accommodates all in Christ and we're back for household up for a fall here in this. Repented and believed before be an act 16 and verse 30 and I am increasingly struck house or it's the text and acts the same way.
He rejoiced Along with his entire household and again with all doers that you get talk about the issues on your program.
Well now that I have discovered something incredible that I was unaware of before called uber conference call, which is free I can have guests from different parts of the world on at the same time on the phone.
I did not know I had no access or awareness of that before until very recently. And for those of you who don't know but pastor Bill is speaking about me. And I also want to direct people to the YouTube To see the debate that you had with our mutual friend. Dr. James R. White of Alpha Omega Ministries on that very issue of Krato versus Oiko baptism and I would love for our listeners to get access to that because I thought it was done with the utmost respect and Friendship and it was an intercollegiate.
Debate amongst brothers in Christ. So it was a really good time. It was a joy to have dr White preach in the pulpit for a way of stating that while we differ on baptism.
Well, we have another listener. We have Ronald in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, who says. Although I am fully aware that no sin would prevent a human being from Returning to Christ in genuine humility and repentance Should the Holy Spirit be genuinely within that person and all such individuals no matter what sin They have ever committed Should be after a credible evidence of repentance and faith.
Welcomed back into the fellowship of whatever church he may have belonged to. But my question to you is.
Are there sins that would forever ban a man from the pulpit in problem with me? And they soon find themselves with a man will be old think that's in repentant at least for and I'll tell you over the yearly a wounded helper.
And that's that. Temptations that come to us and let's face it the temptation on faithfulness. Frankly just a big of getting at.
Yes, and it's also painful to see the Speed with which many of these men return to the pulpit. Yeah, and Obviously, I'm assuming that whatever the sin is that you would perhaps Consider when one is being restored after repentance you would consider having a man return to the pastoral office or to the pulpit.
You would want to see a reasonable span of time and proof being given.
Fruits being born out of a genuinely repentant heart. Yeah. Oh exactly. Exactly, right. And on that let me. Yeah, I wasn't.
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He wants to know when will pastors ever learn that they are Signing their own death warrant in a spiritual sense when they continue counseling women Privately many have given the excuse. Well, I leave the door open or the secretary is in the building.
But in my opinion that is not enough to prevent not only adulterous affairs from being kindled But also false accusations being made against godly pastors who were well-intended but naive in this area.
That's exactly right that action at here again. We're in the realm of a powerly that overload is chapter 2. And so one of the things pastors can and strain. Women in the congregation obviously are mature and gospel-side laud too bad.
You don't have a free gift to the gift.
Yeah, you know something I'm going to find some Appropriate book and because of that nudging I will make sure the Christian gets a gift and well, I want to make sure that you have the time to Summarize what you most want etched in the hearts and minds of our listeners before we leave before I take any additional question right now.
Yeah, I appreciate study Complementary taking some form church life it's a way of intrude disciples these things and almost giving kind of a radio version of an MRI and. So so I thank you for promoting visit would be let your light so shine before and glorify your father who is in heaven although some metaphor for radio.
But the other is as I mentioned just praying for the development of the of the pastoral theology Project, which I'll be working on in a couple months ahead. It's gonna be elders the our our H I as they communicate with us.
I develop a kind of a pastoral tie even if through the internet and that that has been a great blessing. One of the foremost. But why I'd leave.
Amen, and please hold on pastor bill because I want to speak with you after the broadcast is over about that opportunity. With the pastors luncheon, but I want to thank everybody who listened today especially those who took the time to write in.
I want to especially obviously thank pastor Bill Shishko of a visit to the pastor's Study and Reformation Metro, New York. And by the way, you can visit those websites at Reformation Metro NY org, that's Reformation Metro NY for New York org.
And you could also go to a you could go to visit the pastor's study org. Visit the pastor's study org. I want you all to always remember for the rest of your lives that Jesus Christ is a far greater Savior Than you are a sinner.
We look forward to hearing from you and your questions for our guests tomorrow on iron sharpens iron radio.