Hello everyone. I just joined a couple of months ago. I am ....peaceful23@bellsouth.net, Known as Stephen Mobley. I love to discuss the Bible, theology, personal faith, current events, challenging experiences, etc. I have been a minister as a hospital and an institutional chaplain, but I have never been a church pastor. I am a conservative evangelical and Penticostal/ charismatic in experience. I teach English Bible in my church. I hold a very high view on scripture. I am a contingent pacifist, taking such passages as the Sermon on the Mount as my own personal ethic, although sometimes I fail. As to eschatology, I believe in a rapture of the church partway through the 7 year Tribulation period, just before the wrath of God is poured out, but not before the wrath of man (including that of the Antichrist). I believe in a young earth and that there was no death at all until there was sin. I believe in non-directive Christian counseling, but there is also a time for directive Christian therapy where the gospel may be presented, the Good News of Jesus Christ. Christian counseling is founded not on answering the hurts of people, but on the life-transforming experience of coming to know Christ. However, personal acquaintance and rapport must be established. The fact and experience of the New Birth is the basis of healing of all kinds, even though lessor treatments like medicine, surgery, P T, counseling, etc. have a big place, along with prayer. I believe and support the church’s Body Ministry to itself under the ordering of the Holy Spirit with both natural skills and with supernatural manifestations of the Holy Spirit. I have experience as a street minister especially in personal evangelism, although I have never heard a “call to preach”. My ministry is mostly to individuals and in small groups. I do not give uninterrupted soliloques like sermons, because what I have to say is usually based on questions or comments from others. I love feedback. Therefore ministry has not often paid me a salary, I still see myself as a minister and do have an Mdiv and 6 quarters of Clinical Pastoral Education. So I act like a layman, but with a little extra.
Where are your degrees from?
College BA in sociology and psychology. Mdiv from Oral Roberts University.