Articles by Kevin Baird

Greetings Pastors, Partners, and friends of Legacy Christian Ministries,

Tracie and I have just started a month long ministry tour speaking at conferences and churches, as well as encouraging local church pastors and wives in their assignments. It is a part of our call and assignment and we are enjoying this season.

We always want to start our email updates with gratitude and thanks for the invitations to minister across this country and globe -AND- for the growing number of financial and prayer partners who are helping to underwrite and undergird this ministry. I am not embellishing when I tell you that our nation’s pastors are facing unprecedented spiritual warfare and personal assault. It is certainly true that the Lord is “shaking all that can be shaken” and cleaning His House from unrighteous and unqualified leadership, but there are untold hundreds of thousands of pastors who are walking faithfully in their assigned churches doing the work of the ministry under incredible challenge.

The recent statistics show us just a glimpse of what is going on…

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Umpires are essential participants in the game of baseball. Other sports have referees, but baseball officials carry the term, “umpire”. They are a genuinely neutral official who watches a game or match closely to enforce the rules and judge unbiasedly on matters arising from the play. A good umpire will:

1. Be knowledgable about the action taking place before their eyes.
2. Have the confidence to make a quick decision based on the knowledge of the rules and the application of the moment.
3. Bring total objectivity to the game and apply the rules to both teams fairly and with integrity.
4. Have the mental toughness to stand by their ruling no matter the pressures from the teams or the fans.
5. Demonstrate a calm demeanor no matter the emotional blowback from the decision.

There may be more characteristics, but those are the ones that come to mind quickest. Umpires are essential. Without them, rules are broken, stretched, and ignored. I remember playing some pick-up games of baseball and in later years, softball, and no umpires were used. Everyone on the field was on the “honor” system. You don’t need me to report on how those times turned out. In a close play, everyone defaults to partisan team loyalty. It’s the nature of human beings.

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There is an old European folk tale which revolves around the story of a chicken, Henny Penny, who believes that the world is coming to an end. The fear is spread amongst numerous animals until there is a “mass hysteria”. One of the characters is a fox who seizes upon this frenzied group of animals and leads them to its lair where they are summarily eaten by the family of foxes waiting for this hysterical bunch. The tale comes to America in the story of Chicken Little, who is hit on the head by an acorn, and then creates panic by telling everyone, “The sky is falling”. The dictionary describes a “Chicken Little” as  “a person who constantly warns that a calamity is imminent; a vociferous pessimist”. Another defines it as, “A person who panics easily, or spreads alarm amongst others”. The story is the perpetual playbook of politics. Create widespread fear over an issue or a person and then promise to battle it. It has been around since democracy has existed. It stays around because it works.

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Legacy Christian Ministries, Inc. is excited to announce a new ministry lane to offer pastors and the body of Christ at large. Effectively immediately, scheduling is taking place for counseling and life advisement services from a distinctly biblical framework. These services can be in-person if you are in the Jacksonville, FL. region -or- virtual if distance is a problem.

Pastors may be interested for TWO distinct reasons:

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There are college level text books seeking to reconcile the relationship between Christianity and politics. To attempt to blog out a few germane or relevant thoughts even makes me chuckle. How can one adequately address the nature of this connection? Perhaps the best attempt is to simply identify the inherent challenges alongside the biblical template and let the reader determine how their faith individually and how our corporate faith as the Church determines this relationship.

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