The Painted Door Church - Chicago
The Painted Door Church is church family that gathers in Chicago, IL. We are a people who share the same story; we are sinner, saved by grace. We draw our name from the Exodus account in the Hebrew Scriptures, when God spared his people from judgement, passing over all homes that had the blood of a spotless lamb painted across their doorways. Jesus is the new spotless lamb, his death on a Roman cross sparing the people of God from judgment once for all. He reconnects us to our Maker and to each other and invites us to participate in his grand work of restoring all things.
The Painted Door Church - Chicago
Of Crowns and Thorns: Honorable Aims / 2 Corinthians 8:16-24
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Pastor Mark Bergin
Churches are to honor their pastors. But if that honor amounts to blind approval or loyalty, great harm is done both to churches and pastors. The honoring of pastors is not to spare them from critique or provide space for them to retain and cultivate their folly. Rather, the honoring of pastors is an appeal to the honorable Spirit within them. Churches can honor their pastors in hope that they will grow up into the honorable life of Christ. Accordingly, the honoring of pastors is not a passive overlooking of flesh and sin, but an active and expectant watching for God to overcome.