How to Reform a Church Without Losing the Parishioners w/ Pastor Scott Pettus
How do you take a dying church with women elders and lead it into a confessional, Reformed denomination without losing the people? 🔥
On CrossPolitic One-on-One with the Waterboy, Gabe Rench sits down with Pastor Scott Pettus, head pastor of First Church Artesia in Artesia, New Mexico. Scott grew up in Artesia, served 25 years in the Marine Corps, came into the Reformed faith in 2017, and took the pulpit of a small Presbyterian church in 2021. The church was down to three families and eight people, with two women elders who hired him knowing where he stood. Four years later it is seated as a…
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