Pastor John will be in Brazil October 3-10 to speak at the Editora Fiel Conference for Pastors and Leaders. All of the sessions will be live-streamed on the Editora Fiel website. The time change is just one hour ahead of the US Eastern time zone.
Schedule
(All times EDT)
Hotel Majestic - Águas de Lindóia, São Paulo
Wednesday, October 5 — 7:00 PM
God's Passion for His Global GloryThursday, October 6 — 8:00 PM
God Is Glorified When Christ Is GainFriday, October 7 — 8:30 AM
The Final Price of Showing the Glory of Love
Mackenzie Presbyterian University, São Paulo
Friday, October 7 — 7:00 PM
Don't Waste Your Life: The Essence, Origin, and Appearance of the Un-wasted Life (Part 1)Saturday, October 8 — 9:30 AM
Don't Waste Your Life: The Essence, Origin, and Appearance of the Un-wasted Life (Part 2)
Riocentro Convention Center, Rio de Janeiro
Sunday, October 9 — 9:30 AM
The Most Serious Pursuit in the World-Joy
Interview
Earlier this summer our friends with Editora Fiel did a short interview with Pastor John in view of this upcoming conference. One question was about how he handles the critical label some give him of an “entrenched fundamentlist neocalivinist.” Pastor John responds:
I deal with this kind of criticism mainly by a steady output of sermons and books and articles that are based as explicitly on the Bible as I can make them. Labels of this sort will stick or not, in the long run, because of what we say and do, not by how we answer our critics.
The question is: Over 30 years of pastoral life and public witness and steady publication, do most healthy Christians get helped or get hurt by what I do and say? You will know them by their fruit. I want to be biblical. Being “entrenched” or “fundamental” or “Calvinistic” is quite secondary.
I want the overall balance of my ministry to be defined by the overall balance of Scripture. The body of Christ will make that assessment in the short run, and Jesus will in the end.
Read the entire interview.
