What Church Planter's Workshop is about - Church Planters' Workshop

Contents

1 What Church Planter’s Workshop is about
2 Who is Pastor and Missionary David Cox?
3 My “Style” and Solutions
4 FORMAT OF THE WEBSITE
- 4.1 Most Recent Posts
- 4.2 Upcoming Posts

What Church Planter’s Workshop is about

Welcome to my website. Please feel free to look around, investigate, and send me emails on things you don’t understand, or on issues you would like for me to address.

(Click below to see most recent posts or upcoming posts)

Who is Pastor and Missionary David Cox?

I am a local church pastor and a missionary in Mexico City, Mexico since 1984. I went to Bob Jones University from 1976 through 1982, and graduated with a B.A. in Christian Missions (Greek minor), and have a M.A. in Bible, and a M.S. in Educational Administration and Supervision all from Bob Jones.

I consider my education at Bob Jones to be a normal Christian education for the ministry, but I noticed over my first years of ministry that there were a lot of things lacking in that education. There were a lot of essential Bible principles that I needed for my ministry as missionary, as evangelist, and as pastor that simply I didn’t get in my training. Perhaps I am just dumb, or slow, or I didn’t choose the right major (a missions major wouldn’t be the right major?) or the right classes (I took extra Bible and Greek beyond what they required), but I just don’t think what they gave prepared me adequately for the job.

As I meditated and found my own answers within the Word of God (and I thank God that I did learn how to exposit the Bible, and find the truth in God’s Word while at Bob Jones, and the environment was excellent for individual Bible study, even though $10,000s of dollars per year for a quiet “perfect” environment would seem a steep price but I did grow spiritually while at Bob Jones, and I cannot say that the environment there didn’t have a lot to do with it, it did).

This website is my feeble attempt at correcting the world. 🙁

I know that there is a lot of error out there, and I know that there are a lot of wolves in their nice sheep clothes out there, and there is not much I can do about that except give a good blow on the head every now and then (and that I will do if God permits), but this website is for those very, very few souls out there that are truly looking for the truth, and are not finding it in present-day Christianity.

Note: Since I am a missionary, I have missionary updates and personal information about us and our ministry. If you are interested in reading about what is happening in our church, please visit www.davidcoxmex.com to see our most recent prayer updates, and some more Positional Papers and other things on us. If you would like to donate to our ministry, our financial donation page is also on this website.
http://www.davidcoxmex.com/donating-to-our-ministry

My “Style” and Solutions

Note that I am a pastor and a missionary. Most of my ministry has been done with way less funds than the normal or typical missionary (I won’t get into the why of that), but I have always been working on the “lean side of things.” God has had His hand in that because I minister in Mexico. Most Mexicans likewise don’t have much income, so we have developed a philosophy of making “our own” when we need something (or “bootstrapping” as some have called it). We have 96 MP3/MIDI files that we use with a computer for congregational singing in our church. We made our own hymnal to go with our own hymns (all classical normal church music, nothing “contemporary” about it).

I write my own books and tracts because I feel the necessity (there isn’t much good literature out there) and because it is cheaper, and I can give it away when otherwise I would only be able to give a very choice few any literature otherwise.

My motto as pastor is “what is wrong or broke in the church, God put the pastor there to fix it no matter what it is.” That being the case, on this website I will present to you issues and discuss them as intelligently as I can, always trying to use the authority of Scripture to show you the issues and the biblical answer. You will also find on this website the “tools” to fix or accomplish what a Pastor needs in order to plant or run biblically a local church. You will find sermons, books, and tracts that I have written (which you can download and photocopy without paying me anything) to address issues dealt with on these pages. You can use my sermons as is, or as the basis for your own sermons, and don’t worry about giving me credit. That is up to you personally.

There is just one thing that I want to accomplish with this website, and that is that you fix what is wrong in your church, and that you make it “biblical.” Anything that can be used here to do that will be all the blessing I need from you.

FORMAT OF THE WEBSITE

First of all, I will say that God continues to teach me. As a pastor and as a missionary, God continues to send me “problem people”, for which I thank Him for every one of them. I grow spiritually and ministerially by these people. I don’t run them off, but analyze their problems, their history, and answer them with Scripture. This website is about sharing my reflections and meditations on all of that.

A lot of the pages are empty, and I am working on filling them. The pages will also be changed regularly as I add and clarify more and more issues and elements that are found on these pages. Basically this whole website is a “work in progress.” I will try to update you in posts section (click on the words in the header “Church Planters’ & Pastors’ Workshop” to go to the “front door”, and there, the most recent posts will have what I have recently added, created, or changed.

Most Recent Posts

What should we Preach? September 27, 2024
Improving your Preaching: Detecting poor preaching and mediocrity October 4, 2024
Cox – What are the Marks of a Christian? October 11, 2024
Evangelism is the Foundation for every Church October 18, 2024
Church Planting is about the Desire to Congregate October 25, 2024
Discerning a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing from a Man of God November 1, 2024
Apostate traitors and Spies 2 November 15, 2024

Upcoming Posts

Why people stay in your church Fri 12/13/24 18 CST
The Problem of No Church Unity Fri 12/20/24 17 CST

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Various Informational Ads

Brown The Devil's Mission of Amusement 7 page article from 1889. Hollywood in the church and her ministries. Brown was a student of C.H Spurgeon.
Excerpts:
Different days demand their own special testimony. The watchman who would be faithful to his Lord and to the city of his God needs to carefully note the signs of the times and to emphasize his witness accordingly. Concerning the testimony needed now, there can be little if any doubt. An evil is in the professed camp of the Lord, that is so gross, so brazen in its impudence, that the most shortsighted of spiritual men can hardly fail to notice it.... Amusement for the people is the leading article advertised by each... until the hideous fact has been proved up to the hilt, that "amusement" is ousting "the preaching of the Gospel" as the great attraction... The Concert is fast becoming as much a recognized part of church life as the Prayer Meeting; and it is already, in most places, far better attended.

"Providing recreation for the people" will soon be looked upon as a necessary part of Christian work, and as binding upon the Church of God, as though it were a Divine command, unless some strong voices are raised which will make themselves heard.
Read the 7-page article: Brown, The Devil's Mission of Amusement.

Help Keep us on the Internet

Buy me a Cup of Coffee! To make an old Christian work into a PDF, a module for theWord, MySword, or eSword takes time. These works are scans from old books, and as such, I have to go through the text some dozen times looking for places where the OCR is incorrect, blurred, or just skipped something.

Text Editing.Then there are the old Bible references like John iii. 16. Many young Christians and even preachers do not know the Latin system for books of the Bible. I convert Roman numerals in these books to Arabic (iii. to 3).

I have had to invest days and days in writing macros to read a long text, and make substitutions (for the above, search for "iii" and replace with "3:"). Unfortunately, with Psalms you have to start with 150 in Roman numerals (CL) and work your way backwards. But using macros, it is almost instantaneous the next time I need this. Work smarter, not harder. All this takes time and patience, (and being smart enough to do it in a macro language) (as well as a lot of coffee) and then making the text into theWord or eSword, mySword or a PDF.

Please donate something to me once every 6 months or even once a year, even if it is only $5, so that I can pay my bills for hosting, and also keep things moving along. It costs me about $10 per month to keep a website on the Internet. My websites also contains ads which have links to my sermons, tracts, books, that I have written. These keep my works before visitors, even if they are not visiting the specific website where I have them stored. It is my own "web" internally of my own sites with links to good Christian literature. May God bless for your prayers and donations.

Take a look at a few of our tracts:
salv76 suffering should seek his Savior - explains how we should react to problems and sufferings, we should seek the Savior.
pc15 How to fight against depression - we treat the problem of depression. Depression is not a physical disease, it is an emotional and spiritual disease that "bleeds over" and causes aggravation and physical consequences if not attended to at the spiritual-social-emotional level.
ch15 Congregating because we Love - a tract about why we attend church. Our relationship with our brethren in Christ is highly integrated with our salvation and our sanctification.
SSTeen1-01 Existence of God - Does God really exist? This is not a tract but a teen Sunday School Class that I wrote answering this important question.
fam48 Men are God's Agents - Men are God’s Agents to accomplish His Will, looks at man as God wants him to be. Manhood and the husband-wife relationship.
Donations: paypal.me/davidcoxmex/

Tract Group 1

pc05 Resisting Porn is a tract explaining why and how we resist seeing bad images, and the problems related to this. Topics: Seeing a Woman to covet her | We must be happy | This is why God sets the rules regarding sex very clear. | We must not covet your Neighbor's Wife | The Problem with Divorced People.
From the Tract: Job 31:1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
Matthew 5:27 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: 28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
The problems of pornography fall into three main ones: (1) It is to sin against the Lord - One is coveting what is not his, and for God, coveting a woman is just as having sex outside of marriage (adultery or fornication). (2) It is to sin against your partner - One is disloyal, not faithful, to your partner. If one is not married, he is acting in impurity, youth passions ("Flee from youth passions" 2 Timothy 2:22) which is a sin. (3) It is to sin against oneself, against oneself.
View the Tract: pc05 Resisting Porn

Tracts Group 2

PC29 Don’t be a Gossip. We examine the sin of gossiping and slander in the light of the Word of God. This study guides our thoughts.
Excerpt from the Tract
Leviticus 19:16 Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbor: I am the LORD.
The definition of gossip is a person who repeats news or rumors, even murmurings or conversation that hurts other people’s image, when these people are absent and cannot defend themselves. It is a cowardly form to speak about others behind their backs (or being absent) in order to discover something (true or false) about them that they would not say in front of that person to their face because it is insulting or would humiliate the person. Gossip is an attack against the person they are talking about.
Download Tract from Here: PC29 Don't be a Gossip
See also Church Planting Workshop: Handling Gossip An article about handling gossip within the church.

News

Buy me Steak Taco! You know, I work hard at my websites trying to provide you with good material that is sound doctrinally-speaking and of interest to God's people. It is hard work, but I don't mind doing it, and I feel called to the ministry, and God will bless me after all is said and done. But in the meantime, I do need to cover my expenses. I have a total of 34 websites (half English and half Spanish), and each one costs about $10 per month to keep up. That does not take into consideration my time and effort in writing content. Won't you consider at least a one time donation to this ministry of $10 or $20 dollars? It would be really great if you could gift me and my wife this money so that we could enjoy eating out at least once in a while. (I pay the expenses for these sites out of our living expenses.) God will richly bless you and repay you for your generosity. 1 Timothy 5:18 For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward. If you received some value from my websites, consider at lest a small donation. A big donation would really be nice, too though.
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