On Monday we met at the Pastors Acadmy for our book group. This time the book was a local church history by a man called Caleb Morrell. Phil Heaps kindly provided with two sets of questions and a helpful outline.
1. “What Shall the Harvest Be?”: 1867–1878
2. “A Helper of the Downtrodden and Lowly”: 1878–1882 Joseph W. Parker – 1879-82 ~3yrs
3. “With Conscience Void of Offence toward God and Man”: 1882–1884 Wilbur M. Ingersoll – 1882-84 ~2yrs
4. “We Do Our Own Thinking in This Church”: 1885–1889 William H. Young – 1885-90 ~5yrs
5. “We Have a Leader of National Reputation”: 1890–1895 Green Clay Smith – 1890-95 ~5yrs
6. “The Future Is Bright with Promise”: 1896–1912 Granville S. Williams – 1895–1903 ~8yrs
7. “War, Fuel Famine, and Influenza Epidemics”: 1913–1918 John Compton Ball – 1903-44 ~41yrs
8. “No Modernism Will Be Tolerated at All in This Church”: 1919–1943 9. “Holding Forth the Word of Life”: 1944–1955 K. Owen White – 1944-49 ~5yrs Walter Carpenter – 1949-55 ~6yrs
10. “A Beachhead for Evangelical Christianity”: 1956–1960 Walter A. Pegg – 1956-61 ~5yrs
11. “Jesus Doesn’t Need a Parking Lot”: 1961–1980 R.B. Culbreth – 1961-66 ~5yrs John Stuckey – 1967-71 ~5yrs C. Wade Freeman Jr. – 1971-81 ~10yrs
12. “When a Christian Leader Falls”: 1981–1993 Walt Tomme Jr. – 1982-88 ~6yrs
Harry Kilbride – 1990-93 ~3yrs
13. “Preach, Pray, Love, and Stay”: 1994–2000 Mark Dever – 1994-present ~31yrs
14. “Doing Nothing and Church Planting”: 2001–Present
We all found the book helpful and interesting and there was a good discussion among the seven present on this occasion. Blaise Pascal next in May.
Example questions
1. What did you think of the book? Strengths / weaknesses?
2. Are there any incidents or characters that particularly lodged in your mind?
3. ch.1: What were Thomas Ustick Walter’s strengths & weaknesses, p10f? Do these things often go together? Have you ever had to change any strongly held and loudly trumpeted views, p16?
4. ch.3: What did Walter Ingersoll do wrong, and what can we learn from this episode, p59,62,65?
5. ch.4: How important are “youth, energy and enthusiasm”, p70 and “unyielding determination to succeed”, p73?
6. ch.5: Does it always feel like we are in a time of social decay and moral regress”, p82? (p90,95; p168)
7. In the early 1890s, 65% of MBC’s members were women, p98. How does that compare with our churches? etc.
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