{"id":13263,"date":"2022-12-28T22:36:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T02:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=13263"},"modified":"2024-11-18T16:55:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T20:55:42","slug":"bruce-sabados","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=13263","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Sabados"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A\u00a0<strong>Bruce Sabados<\/strong>\u00a0and his wife has visited our church several times now. Though I find myself lack of the opportunity to communicate with them. They were seen talking to our pastor most of the time and occasionally attended our Thursday Bible study. He has a website:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bruceasabados.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/bruceasabados.com\/<\/a>\u00a0according to which, it's likely his background is Baptist. It appears that he was ordained senior pastor in Calvary Bible Church, a Baptist church in NJ (His installation video @1:03:52 of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/livestream.com\/cbcnj\/events\/8847119\/videos\/197515191\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/livestream.com\/cbcnj\/events\/8847119\/videos\/197515191<\/a>) and the only\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/livestream.com\/cbcnj\/events\/8869891\/videos\/198287755\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sermon<\/a> (June 7, 2020, Disciples Understand What is Most Important - Luke 10:38-42)\u00a0of his I could find in short. However, apparently he's no longer the church's staff anymore now according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/calvarybiblechurchnj.org\/about-cbc\/staff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">church's staffs page<\/a>, which is curious, since his installation was in 2019 (Oct. 6), pre-Covid19. I wonder what happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-2-1024x682.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13257\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-2-1024x682.png 1024w, http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-2-300x200.png 300w, http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-2-768x511.png 768w, http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-2.png 1299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This also prompted me in wondering: How does one, graduated, certified, having the right resume, get to work in a church? Questions of denominational principle (i.e. John in our church reminded me that this Presbyterian church would not have hired a Baptist-baptism pastor) is not enough, but also how they relate to the congregants. This is of course, trying already. For I never really support the idea of hiring a strangers on pastoral staffs, but if it must, then there are tons of questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0Bruce Sabados\u00a0and his wife has visited our church several times now. Though I find myself lack of the opportunity to communicate with them. 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