Pastor Tim Posey has been a teaching elder for most of his adult life. A native Tennessean, Pastor Tim has pastored three churches and planted two churches. He started Spring Meadows Church in Las Vegas in 1988 and has prayed for the physical and spiritual growth of his congregation ever since.
Quote for the week:
It seems desirable to ascertain, as precisely as we can, the reasons why Christians commonly are of so diminutive a stature and of such feeble strength in their religion…First, there is a defect in our belief in the freeness of divine grace.To exercise unshaken confidence in the doctrine of gratuitous pardon is one of the most difficult things in the world; and to preach this doctrine fully without verging toward antinomianism is no easy task, and is therefore seldom done.But Christians cannot but be lean and feeble when deprived of their proper nutriment.It is by faith that the spiritual life is made to grow; and the doctrine of free grace, without any mixture of human merit, is the only true object of faith.Christians are too much inclined to depend on themselves, and not to derive their life entirely from Christ.There is a spurious legal religion, which may flourish without the practical belief in the absolute freeness of divine grace, but it possesses none of the characteristics of the Christian life.It is found to exist in the rankest growth, in systems of religion which are utterly false.But even when the true doctrine is acknowledged in theory, often it is not practically felt and acted upon.The new convert lives upon his frames rather than on Christ, while the older Christian is still found struggling in his own strength and, failing in his expectations of success, he becomes discouraged first, and then he sinks into a gloomy despondency, or becomes in a measure careless.At that point the spirit of the world comes with resistless force.Here, I am persuaded, is the root of the evil, and until religious teachers inculcate clearly, fully and practically the grace of God as manifested in the Gospel, we shall have no vigorous growth of piety among professing Christians.Archibald Alexander, 1845
