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May 252011
 


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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.

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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. :( Continue reading »

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Don’t shoot the sheep, aiming for the wolves

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Mar 272012
 

By Pastor-Missionary David Cox

To summarize what we understand from the Bible:

1) There are sheep in our fold.

Basically, this means that many (hopefully most or all) of our sheep in our fold are saved people, wanting to serve God and please Him in some degree. Our ministry is to serve the sheep working God’s will and desire for them. On the one hand, we should help them grow spiritually, and on the other hand, we should confront their sin, rebuke it, pray for them, and see them get victory over there sins. Continue reading »

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Where should Mission Dollars go to?

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Mar 232012
 

Let’s start with a definition of what is a missionary. A missionary is very simply a man of God who has the charge from God to carry the gospel message into a land where the gospel is not present, or is not abundant, and he organizes the converts of his evangelism into local churches which [...]

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Why we refuse to charge for Ministry

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Mar 232012
 

Part of our clear understanding of Scriptures regarding the local church is that the financial income of the local church is to be solely based in the tithes and offerings of its people. The local church is not to “sell” anything, not even cakes or cookies. They are not to have bingo nights, or charge [...]

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Size Matters (but not in the way you think).

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Mar 232012
 

Today there is a belief circling in Christianity that bigger is better. We go to the hamburger joint and they want to supersize our fries and drink and put three beef patties on our bun. The thinking is clearly taught to us on one hand that bigger is better. On the other hand the doctors [...]

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Consolidation versus Independence

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Mar 232012
 

Typical Argument – We can do more, and do it better if we consolidate our forces. This is the typical siren of neo-evangelicalism, let’s consolidate our forces. But here we want to look at this from a different perspective. God did not set up Christianity under the structure and form that, for example, the Roman [...]

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Getting People Really Saved.

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Mar 232012
 

  Overview The greatest problem of the church is the unsaved within its own walls. When people slip into the church as members, and even worse as deacons, ministers, or even the pastor, the only possible result is disaster. We look at what the problem is, how to fix it, how we should define salvation [...]

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Verses for Witnessing (Notes)

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Mar 232012
 

Introduction First of all, we need to limit ourselves to the Scriptures. We can neither leave out anything the Scripture includes, nor can we minimize it, nor can we add things the Scriptures do not include in salvation. Here I will try to justify each point of these points. Note that I do not explain [...]

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Verses for Witnessing

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Mar 232012
 

Note: For brevity, I will not fully write out all of these verses, but put a small part of them. Those who wish to use these verses and plan should study each verse and point. (Go here to see notes on each of these points) I. Recognition that you are a sinner. Luke 5:31 They [...]

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A Clear Plan of Salvation

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Mar 232012
 

There are probably hundreds of different valid presentations of the gospel out there. Looking into the actual Bible, we find Jesus presenting the salvation in various different forms. We cannot speak authoritatively about how Jesus witnessed because being God, he could very well discern perfectly the heart of the person that he was dealing with [...]

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What to do after making contact with Pastoral Candidate

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Mar 122012
 

What to do after you make contact with a candidate The best way to deal with a pastoral candidate is with being direct and having an abundance of information both from him, and given back to him. That means you need to supply the candidate with a lot of information about your church. Here a [...]

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