The Overopinionated Pastor with Pastor-Teacher Jonathan Burris

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No Holds Barred Biblical Positions by Pastor-Teacher Jonathan Burris Jonathan Burris is a Pastor/Elder at Sophia Baptist Church in North Carolina and the Director of For The Master Ministries. This apologetics and evangelistic ministry focuses on discipling, equipping, and training believers to defend their faith in an increasingly hostile culture while bringing the good news of redemption, rescue, and renewed purpose to the addicted and homeless through the gospel of Christ. He is Calvinistic, creedal, and affirms the 1646 First London Baptist Confession of Faith.

  1. Sep 16

    Responding to Steven Andersons Sermon on Spousal Abuse

    I want to play you something a man said from a pulpit. He is a pastor. He was preaching to a congregation, with a Bible open in front of him. And here is what came out of his mouth. "I'm not saying your husband should slap you down. But if your husband slaps you down and you call the cops, you're evil. What an evil broad. What an evil woman." That is Steven Anderson, of Faithful Word Baptist Church. And in the same sermon, before he got to that line, he had already said it was wicked for a wife to use a camera or a recorder to capture her husband beating her, or forcing himself on her, so she could hand it to the police. And when people in the room pushed back, his answer was, if you don't like it, you can leave. So let me say the thing plainly, and then I am going to spend the rest of our time proving it from the book he claims to preach. A battered wife who gets herself and her children to safety, and picks up the phone and calls the police, has not sinned. Not even a little. The sin in that house belongs, start to finish, to the man swinging his fists. I'm not going to shout at you about it. I'm going to open the Scriptures. Because Anderson wants you to think he has the Bible and the rest of us have our feelings. He has that exactly backwards. So let's go to the text. And I want to build this slowly, one brick at a time, so that by the end there is nowhere left to stand except where the Word of God stands. Steven told said in this clip that he wanted chapter and verse where he was wrong. He said put up or shut up. I will happily accept that challenge head on. Whatever insults and attacks come my way, I do not care. Biblical truth and the safety of the people under his control is paramount to whatever mud is slung my way from this disqualified pastor and his horde of acolytes. LINKS AND CONTACT INFORMATION: https://link.forthemaster.org/linktree

  2. Sep 12

    The Dangerous Heresy of Full Preterism

    There are differences in form and there are errors in substance. There are errors the church tolerates as mistakes of method rather than matter. There are views we can disagree with without excommunicating from the family of faith. But then there are errors that strike at the gospel itself. Full Preterism is one of those errors. Now, I need to define my terms, because this is where people get confused. There's a view called "partial preterism" that most evangelical scholars affirm. Partial preterism teaches that certain prophecies in the New Testament—especially those in Matthew 24 and the book of Revelation—were fulfilled in AD 70 with the destruction of Jerusalem. But partial preterists still hold to a future, bodily return of Christ, a future resurrection of the dead, and a final judgment yet to come. Full Preterism, goes far beyond this. Full Preterism teaches that *all* biblical prophecy—including Christ's visible return, the bodily resurrection of the dead, and the final judgment—was fulfilled in AD 70. In their view, when people speak of Christ's return, they mean His coming in judgment on Jerusalem, not a future event. When they speak of the resurrection, they mean it was a spiritual resurrection that happened in AD 70, not a future bodily resurrection. When they speak of the final judgment, they mean it was the judgment on Israel, not a judgment of all people at the end of history. That's not a difference of interpretation. That's not a debate about how to read Daniel or Revelation. That is the denial of core New Testament doctrine. LINKS AND CONTACT INFORMATION: https://link.forthemaster.org/linktree

  3. Sep 4

    A Christian Nation Worth Wanting — And How It Actually Gets Built

    A Christian Nation Worth Wanting — And How It Actually Gets Built I want to say plainly, up front, so there's no confusion about where I stand: I want a Christian nation too. I want to live to see a land where the name of Christ is honored in the home, in the courthouse, in the classroom, and on the factory floor — where righteousness genuinely exalts a nation the way Proverbs 14:34 says it does. That's not a fringe hope. That's the hope of every Reformed pastor who has ever prayed "Thy kingdom come" and meant it for his own country, not just his own congregation. Jonathan Edwards prayed for it. The Puritans crossed an ocean hoping for it. It is a legitimate, biblical longing. The question in front of us isn't whether we want a Christian nation. It's how one is actually built — and Scripture, the apostolic pattern, the honest verdict of my own Reformed Baptist history, and the actual history of this country all point in the same direction, away from the sword and toward the pulpit. LINKS AND CONTACT INFORMATION: https://link.forthemaster.org/linktree

  4. Aug 28

    Did God Have a Wife?

    God had a wife, the Bible covered it up, and it's just settled scholarship, so you may as well get on board.I want to take this seriously, because a lot of people are shaken by videos like this. It sounds informed. It drops the right names, the inscriptions, textual criticism, the Canaanite pantheon. And if all you've ever had is a flannelgraph Sunday school faith, it can feel like the floor dropping out.So let's do what the video didn't. Let's deal with the evidence, all of it, honestly. I am going to concede everything that is true, and more than you might expect, because the truth has nothing to fear from the facts. And then I'll show you that when you line the evidence up carefully, it does not say what this video claims. Not even close. The very evidence offered to bury biblical monotheism turns out to presuppose it on every page.LINKS AND CONTACT INFORMATION: https://link.forthemaster.org/linktree

  5. Aug 22

    Is Psalm 12:6-7 Preserving Words or People?

    There is a verse that gets quoted in almost every defense of King James Onlyism, and it is quoted with total confidence. Psalm 12, verses 6 and 7. Let me read it to you from the King James Version itself:"The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever."And here is the argument built on it. Verse 6 is about the words of the LORD. Verse 7 says, "Thou shalt keep them... thou shalt preserve them." So, the reasoning goes, God has promised to preserve His words, perfectly, forever, down to the last syllable. And that perfectly preserved word, they say, is the King James Version.It sounds airtight. "The words of the LORD are pure... thou shalt preserve them." Words in verse 6, "them" in verse 7. What could be simpler?I want to walk through this with you carefully, honestly, and without any cheap shots, because I hold the King James Version in high honor, and I have no interest in tearing it down. But I want to ask a simple question: when verse 7 says God will keep "them," who, or what, is "them"? Is it the *words* of verse 6? Or is it the *people* of the psalm, the poor and the needy God has just promised to rescue? We are going to build the answer piece by piece, from the weakest evidence to the strongest, and by the end I think you will see that the case is not close. And the most surprising witness against the King-James-Only reading is going to be the King James Version's own family tree.

  6. Jul 21

    Phoebe Was Not A Deacon - Change My Mind

    Several times over the last few weeks, I have been asked about Phoebe and whether or not she was a deacon in the sense of the Biblical office. And then there was one sad example where when I mentioned how powerfully God used some of the Biblical deacons in the New Testament that someone shocked me by adding, “and some of those were women”. I was immediately taken aback by the comment and I asked, do you mean Phoebe? The person nonchalantly shrugged his shoulders. I interjected that his assertion was very much a misunderstanding of the text, especially since no major English translation even translates the underlying Greek word as anything other than “servant”. The word, deacon, is a peculiar word in English. It is a transliteration. Transliteration is the process of converting text from one writing system or alphabet into another by matching sounds. Unlike translation, which focuses on changing the actual meaning of words, transliteration focuses entirely on spelling or pronouncing them, allowing readers to read foreign words in a familiar alphabet.And that’s what I wish to talk about in this video.LINKS AND CONTACT INFORMATION: https://link.forthemaster.org/linktree

  7. Jul 3

    Are Only Paul's Writings Relevant for Today?

    For the last while, I have been bombarded with King James Only Hyper-Dispensationalists. Seriously, I have not encountered a single one of these people who are not hardcore KJV Onlyists. In past videos, I have asked, what good is a perfect Bible with horrible theology? Why claim a perfect book when you are going to throw away everything except for 13 books in the New Testament that are authored by Paul?

  8. May 17

    Reviewing The Jay Dyer vs Jonathan Shelley Debate on Tradition vs Sola Scriptura

    Around 10 days ago, Eastern Orthodox apologist, Jay Dyer, and NIFB Pastor Jonathan Shelley had, what was called, a debate on Tradition vs Sola Scriptura on the Modern-Day Debate channel. I watched it so you don’t have to.I want to make it clear that I was wanting Shelley to do well. While he says that Jonathan Burris is a piece of scum, fake pastor that hates Jesus and hates the word of God and best thing Jonathan Burris can do is to die and go to hell, I sincerely wanted him to defend Sola Scriptura. Needless to say, I was left wanting.Shelley was ill-prepared and out of his league by an order of magnitude against Jay Dyer. These NIFB pastors like Shelley are comfortable inside the comfort zones of their church's echo chamber where they control the bully pulpit with dictatorial authority, but in the scholarly arena, Shelley proved himself unequipped from a scholarly perspective, and absent the demeanor to go toe-to-toe with someone as arrogant as himself, but much more steeped in Church history and apologetics. I am not a Dyer fan. He converted to EO from a Calvinistic position, and as can clearly be seen in this debate, has the demeanor and character similar to that of the Banned Pastor, the bearded badger himself, Jonathan Shelley.LINKS AND CONTACT INFORMATION: https://link.forthemaster.org/linktree

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No Holds Barred Biblical Positions by Pastor-Teacher Jonathan Burris Jonathan Burris is a Pastor/Elder at Sophia Baptist Church in North Carolina and the Director of For The Master Ministries. This apologetics and evangelistic ministry focuses on discipling, equipping, and training believers to defend their faith in an increasingly hostile culture while bringing the good news of redemption, rescue, and renewed purpose to the addicted and homeless through the gospel of Christ. He is Calvinistic, creedal, and affirms the 1646 First London Baptist Confession of Faith.

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