I’ve searched the Internet and looked everywhere I can. I have watched and listened to commercials to see if I can find one. There just aren’t any out there. I can’t find anyone or any business that uses lower standards to bring in business and clients. I can’t find a dentist or doctor that is offering discounts because they sterilize their instruments after every third patient. I have looked for an automobile company that is advertising a lower price because they use lower…
Category: Dr. Jessup’s Articles
When Should a New Church Begin a Missions Program?
Dr. Earl Jessup
Over the past ten years one of the most asked questions I receive is, “When should a new church begin to take on missionaries?” This question comes from reproducing pastors, from church planters, and from others that seem to be concerned about this issue. It mainly revolves around the issue of support for the pastor of the new church. Those who normally ask the question do so because they feel the new church should be supporting the new pastor full-time before starting to…
What Happened to the Sanctuary?
Dr. Earl D. Jessup
Recently, I was driving through the town in which I grew up, and I saw something that concerned me. I saw a sign on a church that supported my wife and me when we first went to Canada as church planters. The sign read, “New home for our ‘Worship Center’.” As I began thinking about it, I realized just how much we have changed. When I grew up in a small Baptist church, I was the typical little boy that enjoyed running and playing around the church. I was constantly…
Welfare Churches
Dr. Earl D. Jessup
“Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine. For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the os that treadeth out the corn. And, the labourer is worthy of his reward.” 1 Timothy 5:17-18
Sometime ago, I pastor challenged me to write an article about churches that are not willing to pay their pastor. Helping churches reproduce churches brings this problem to the forefront more so than for…
Why Everyone Should Distribute Tracts Everyday
Dr. Earl Jessup
How important is it to distribute tracts and information about the church as we go about our daily tasks around town? For most of us, we are unsure if the results are worth the effort. We seldom hear of someone being saved from a tract we hand out and rarely hear of someone coming to church because a gospel tract was given to them. Maybe we should take a closer look at what it means to regularly and faithfully hand out tracts everyday.
First of all, when we give someone a…
There is a Big Difference Between “Is” and “Contains”.
Dr. Earl Jessup
This issue of The Cultivator is being dedicated to the use of John/Romans for the planting of churches and the impact the Word of God has in cities and homes where we use them. We are so thankful for ministries that have helped us by printing and preparing them for the church plants in which we are involved.
I want to take this opportunity to explain our position on the Bible. Recently a new pastor called me regarding a conversation he had with a mission board here in t…
Then Departed Barnabas…To Seek Saul
Dr. Earl D. Jessup
In Acts 11:25 the Bible says, “Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Saul: And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church and taught much people.” We find that one of the first things that Barnabas did after the church was planted in Antioch was get some help with the winning of souls and the discipling of the Christians.
We have heard discussions on the “Team…
The Un-Evangelized Fields of North America
Dr. Earl Jessup
Sadly many parts of North America remain un-evangelized. Hundreds of thousands of people are not reached because churches are not reproducing churches in these areas. Where are these areas that need these good fundamental Baptist churches? They are within minutes of our good fundamental Baptist churches.
As I travel this continent and speak on church planting, I mention the need of churches being reproduced within 20 to 30 minutes of our churches. Because of this I get two…
An Amazing but True Story – The Death of a Child
Dr. Earl Jessup
Several years ago, a fundamental Baptist decided to plan for the birth of a child into their family. This seemed like a great idea but this family wasn’t sure about the whole idea. They were a busy family with a lot of other interests. However, they thought this was something they should do so they began to prepare for this birth. During the preparation process the mother seemed to be more concerned about her well being rather than the well being of her unborn child. S…
The Position of BCPM on the Text issue
Dr. Earl Jessup
Recently we had a church drop our support because of our position on the King James Version debate. In the letter, he wrote: “For some time that has been a movement afoot that goes against historic fundamentalism. This movement seeks to elevate a translation of God’s Word above all other translations. This movement has sought to divide good fundamental schools as well as churches. It is quite evident by your doctrinal statement on your website that you have bowed to that…
