THE BELIEVER'S WELCOME MAT

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Originally began as "Youth-in-View" then "The Pastor Preacher Online" now "BELIEVERS WELCOME MAT" This is a website with an emphasis on the believer in Christ Jesus. It’s aim is to reach Pastors, Preachers, Homeschooling Families, Christian Parents, Young People, Christian singles, and others involved in ministry such as Sunday School Teachers, Youth Workers, Evangelists, Missionaries, and the likes. Of course the website is Evangelistic in nature and seeks to help those looking to find a relationship with Christ. If you want to enhance your Christian life and Ministry or you are looking to find and establish a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ then please drop in and if you would like to interact with a Pastor in Ministry then please do not hesitate to contact me at apastorpreacher@yahoo.com

What I want on my tombstone

Following Christ with no regrets !

ABOUT PASTOR SCHALK & FAMILY

Position Objective: Under the Leadership of the Lord I sense the call of God to Pastor an Independent Fundamental Baptist Church with the intent of Preaching the Gospel to the Saints of God to bring them on to Christ-likeness and effective usefulness in the Lords work. To Preach to sinners with the intent of winning them to Christ. Also, to build a Glorious Christ Exalting, Family Church that brings honor and Glory to God and effectively ministers to the individual. I Preach only from the KJV- 1611 Bible.

My ordination for Gospel Ministry was in the Fall of 1997 held at Lighthouse Baptist Church in Blacksburg, S.C. under the Direction of Pastor Grady Gregory.

· Trained two and a half (2 ½ ) years Majoring in Bible and Second Man Ministries

LYNN HILL INDEPENDENT BAPTIST CHURCH Whiteville, North Carolina ( 2006 – current )

CHRISTIAN HOMESCHOOLERS OF CHEROKEE COUNTY (CHECC) Gaffney, S.C. (2002 – 2006)

· I have served in Childrens and Youth Ministries in several other Churches since 1983.

· I participated in Street Tract ministries at Heritage Baptist Church in Grand Rapids Mich 1983

· Competed in Teens Involved Preaching with College Age Group in Grand Rapids Mich 1983

My wife, Leah, was born and raised in Frankfort, Indiana. Her family is Christian parents who still reside in Indiana. My wife has two brothers who reside in Indiana near her parents. My wife attended a year at Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina majoring in missions before transferring to Fairhaven Baptist College in Chesterton, Indiana for two (2) years then majoring in Elementary Education. After Marriage, my wife and I moved to Shelby, North Carolina and my wife attended Ambassador Baptist College for one (1) year majoring in Church Ministries.

My wife and I have three (3) children: Sarah ( 11 – years old ), Samuel ( 9 – years old), and Savannah ( 6 – years old) All three are miracle babies whom the Lord graciously had his hand over. The two oldest Sarah and Samuel have been saved however Savannah has yet to be saved.

My wife has been home-schooling our children ever since they became of schooling age.

I am currently pastoring the Lynn Hill Independent Baptist Church in Whiteville, NC. I have been the senior pastor for two (2) years. We moved here after having been members of New Hope Baptist Church in Gaffney, South Carolina. Our Pastor there was Tim Osment. At New Hope I was the Adult Sunday school teacher. I participated in the soul-winning visitation outreach of the church as well as the Youth Ministries. Occasionally, I filled in the pulpit when Pastor Tim was away. My wife is skilled in art and has accompanied me in ministry to churches presenting her chalk art followed by my preaching the picture drawn. My wife and children have participated in singing for the church on occasion.

I studied voice in Bible College under the direction of Dr. Don Scoville at Ambassador Baptist College and have sung on occasion however rarely. I mainly studied to develop a conservative approach to music.

I have participated in the County Recreational Sports as a Coach of Little League Basketball and Baseball. Also, this year I have assisted in Little League Football. I have participated in such to provide a platform for meeting with people in the community and availing every opportunity afforded me to share the gospel. Also trained in EMS.

In summary, I am and always have been an Independent Old Fashion Bible Believing Baptist since my salvation therefore my personal statement of faith is that of the Independent Baptist Faith.

In my childhood, I was raised up in a non-Christian environment where the Lord Jesus Christ was never mentioned except as a curse word. God used the death of a classmate on graduation night to cause me to realize how frail life really is. Though I didn’t get saved that night I began thinking about eternity and where I would go when I died. It was a couple of weeks after that that I had contacted a fellow classmate who I knew went to church. I discussed my concerns for eternity with him and he basically told me that If I would say a prayer I would go to heaven and if I had failed to before I died that I would spend eternity in hell. Naturally, I prayed the prayer and got religious. That lasted for three years yet it did get me into church and even led me to where I was attending three churches at one time. On July 22, 1983 at the age of 22 our church had an evangelist who used magic trickery to illustrate bible truths. He did present the gospel and gave an invitation of which I was called upon to assist as a personal worker. That night we had 33 people come forward for salvation. At the invitation while assisting in counseling those who came forward I found myself under conviction. I left the person I was dealing with to another counselor and stepped outside of the building we were meeting in and at the front of the church was a cross out front. It was there that I called upon the Lord believing upon the Lord for salvation. God had brought to my mind two (2) scriptures to bring me under conviction. They were Matthew 7:21-23 and Romans 10:10. From that point I knew that I had passed from religion to salvation. I have claimed Luke 9:62 as my life verse with the purpose of not looking back but rather from then on to be looking up.

Since that day when I passed from religion to salvation there has always been a desire in my heart to be a preacher and that desire has not changed even to this day. I began attending a Preacher Boys Club in our church which consisted of the youth director and college age assistants working with the younger teenagers to prepare them for the work of the ministry. Through this experience I was able myself to learn how to develop and outline thoughts from the Bible. That December I visited Fairhaven Baptist College to train for the ministry.

I attended Fairhaven Baptist College in Chesterton, Indiana for four and a half (4 ½ ) years. While there I spent a year traveling as an Evangelist for Neighborhood Bible Time stationed out of Boulder, Colorado. After that I got married and moved to South Carolina to attend Ambassador Baptist College in Shelby, North Carolina where I was there for two ( 2 ) years. After Bible College I have had a wide variety of opportunities to serve the Lord all the while desiring the pastorate. In 2003 I served as Interim Pastor for a church that had lost its Pastor to death. I served there for five (5) months. In November 2005 I was called to pastor the Lynn Hill Baptist Church of Whiteville, NC where I am currently serving as the senior pastor

My family looks forward with anticipation at what the Lord has in store for our future. I have prayed personally and with my family and feel led of God to submit this resume to your Church Pulpit Committee.

The Holy Scriptures, complete in the sixty-six canonical books of the Old and New Testaments, are inspired by God. He breathed every word from His mouth. The Bible is completely inerrant and is therefore absolutely authoritative in every area of life. The Scriptures have been preserved by the Almighty and will never pass away. The best and most accurate body of manuscripts underlying the New Testament is the Textus Receptus. This then supports the King James Version for which I stand and from which I study and preach. The only correct interpretation of the Scripture is the historical, grammatical, and dispensational interpretation.

There is only one, true God. He is manifested in the Trinity through God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. He is revealed through creation, conscience, and the Word of God. He is holiness, love, wisdom, and power. He is a Spirit, absolutely separate and above His creation, yet everywhere present as the Sustainer of all things. He orchestrates the events of all mankind for His glory. He is the father of all those who receive His Son as their Savior. He is the Creator of the universe and is intimately involved with every part of His creation as the Sovereign ruler of all.

Jesus Christ is God the Son. He was born of a virgin and manifested in the flesh to reveal God to man and finish the work for man's redemption. He is the eternal Word and the only begotten Son of God. He manifested God to us through His miracles, His life, His death, and His resurrection. The Lord was tempted in all points as we are, but He did not sin, nor could He sin. When He died on the cross, He satisfied the wrath of God the Father against sinful humanity; and when He rose from the dead, He made our justification complete. After His resurrection, He was seen of over five hundred witnesses, many of whom saw Him ascend up into heaven. He is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God and is making intercession for the saints on the earth. At any moment Christ could appear in the clouds to take His children home to heaven. He will then preside as the Judge of the Bema Seat. Later, He will rule the earth for a thousand years and finally be the object of our worship and praise for all eternity.

The Holy Spirit is God. He is the Divine agent in nature, revelation and redemption. He convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment to come. His task is to glorify the Father and the Son. He regenerates, indwells, baptizes, seals, and anoints all that receive Christ. He will empower, guide, comfort, teach, sanctify, and fill every believer who yields himself completely to the Spirit's control.

Angels are created spirit beings that are completely dependent upon God for their existence. They are personal, powerful beings that never die, and have been made a little higher than mankind. Their works include praise, protection, ministry, encouragement, direction, and in the past, prophecy. The purpose of their creation was to bring glory to God.
Satan is a very powerful angel and is in charge of all of the fallen angels. He was originally created as a perfect being; but through his own rebellion, he was brought under God's judgment. When Satan was cast out of heaven, he led a host of angels in rebellion. His powers are vast but limited by the omnipotent God. Satan is the influence behind every evil that is in the universe. He was defeated at the cross of Christ and therefore has no power over the believer who is completely yielded to the Lord. Someday, his doom will be sealed as he is cast into the lake of fire to burn forever.

All men are created by God. They do not exist as a result of any form of evolutionary process. Man was created in the image of God and is a tripartite (body, soul, spirit) being. Man is a free moral agent and has been given the choice to obey or disobey the Creator. In the garden, man chose to disobey and fell into certain destruction. This choice resulted in spiritual death, eternal separation from God, and a sin nature that continually rebelled against God's Word. Man is totally depraved, making it impossible for him to please the Lord without the righteousness of Christ. All men are under God's condemnation and are doomed to hell-fire unless they repent and receive God's Son.

Sin is the willful violation of God's Law. It began with Satan and spread to some of the angels, who joined in a rebellion against God. All men are sinners by nature and by choice and are totally corrupted and condemned. Nothing in man can merit the favor of the Holy God. The only way that man can come to God is through the righteousness of Christ.

Salvation is the act of God. It is obtained by faith in God's marvelous grace. It is not by our own works that we receive forgiveness, but rather, it is a gift of God. Salvation is deliverance from eternal punishment in Hell, from the power of sin, and from the laws of condemnation. The Lord Jesus Christ laid down His life as the substitutionary payment for our sin. His blood is the only substance that can cleanse man from iniquity. His death is the propitiation for the sin of the world. If He is rejected, condemnation is sure. If He is received, salvation is certain.
Redemption is the work of God, whereby a sinner is bought back out of the slave market of sin. Justification is the judicial declaration of God that deems a sinner completely righteous through the merit of the Lord Jesus Christ. Propitiation is the satisfaction of God's wrath through His Son. Adoption is the act of God, whereby those who put their faith in Christ are placed into the family of God as adult sons, with all the blessings, privileges, and responsibilities of that position. Reconciliation is the work of God that renders mankind salvable and works a change in the heart of the believer from hatred and anger to love and trust.
The process of salvation began before the foundation of the world. God foreknew who would trust Him. Whosoever will may come to Him, and those who come are chosen in Him before the foundation of the world. The Holy Spirit draws each one who is saved through the message of God's Word. That individual must repent and place his entire faith in Christ Jesus as the only way of salvation. If he does, he is saved forever. His eternal destiny is founded upon the Word and character of the Lord.

God's plan for today is accomplished through the church of Jesus Christ. It is displayed in the Scriptures in a two-fold manner: the universal body of Christ and the local body of believers. Though both have a place in the New Testament, the local church by far, has the most emphasis. The universal church is that group of saved individuals all over the world who have been baptized into the body of Christ by the Holy Spirit at the moment of salvation. It has never met but will someday do so through the rapture. The local church is an organized group of baptized believers in the same geographical location who come together on a regular basis to worship the Lord Jesus Christ. The two offices that are manifested in the local church are the pastor and the deacon. The pastor is the under-shepherd of the flock and is directly accountable to the Lord Jesus Christ for how he teaches and leads the sheep. The deacons are servants and spiritual examples for the flock of God. Two ordinances are to be practiced by the local church: Baptism and the Lord's Supper. Baptism is a public testimony of a person's faith in Christ. It does not save. It only witnesses of God's grace. The Lord's Supper is the regular observance of the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. The mission of the church is to evangelize the lost and to teach the saints how to follow Jesus.

Jesus Christ will appear in the clouds at any moment and receive His saints up to glory. The dead in Christ shall rise first, then those in Christ who are alive will be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. The teaching of Scripture is a premillenial, pretribulational rapture of the saints.
On the earth, the next event will be the tribulation. The Antichrist will set up his domain, promising peace and safety. His rule will end seven years later when the Lord Jesus comes and establishes His righteous, millennial throne. While the tribulation is taking place, the Judgment Seat of Christ will occur in Heaven. At this event, every Christian will be judged for his works.
Then Christ will come to earth and fight against the enemies of God in the Battle of Armageddon. There He will destroy those who come against Him, and He will cast the Antichrist and false prophet into the lake of fire.
For one thousand years Christ will reign upon the earth with a rod of iron. During this time, Satan will be bound in the bottomless pit and will have no power upon the earth. The Judgment of Israel and the Judgment of the Nations will occur at the beginning of the Millennium.
At the close the Millennium, Satan will be loosed and will attempt, one last time, to rally an army against God. He will be defeated and cast into the lake of fire. Following this, God will sit at the Great White Throne Judgment and judge all of the unsaved. Whosoever's name is not found written in the Book of Life will be cast into the lake of fire. God will destroy the heavens and the earth with fervent heat and will establish a new heaven and a new earth.

Heaven is a literal place prepared for those who put their faith in Jesus Christ. It is a place of peace, beauty, satisfaction, rest, and holiness. This is not soul sleep. It is void of sin, because it is where God dwells. Believers will live there forever to worship, praise, and serve God.
Hell is a literal place of torment prepared for the devil and his angels. All those who do not trust Christ as their Savior will spend eternity in this place separated from God. It is a place characterized by darkness, worms, fire, brimstone, smoke, and thirst. Those in hell have all five senses and are very aware of what is around them. They will not be consumed nor annihilated but will suffer in torments forever and ever.

The Word of God reveals spiritual gifts to be inner motivations, spiritual endowments, and divine appointments which are given by the Holy Spirit to the believer, that the Body of Christ might function properly. Knowledge, prophecy, and tongues, all known as the sign gifts, have ceased and have not been in operation since the completion of the canon of Scripture. However, the other gifts play an integral part in the effectiveness of Christ's church.

Marriage is a holy institution that is ordained and sanctioned by God. God's plan is one man for one woman for life. The only correct foundation for marriage is the Lord Jesus Christ. Divorce is never God's plan. The Bible teaches that once a person has been divorced, he or she is to remain unmarried until his or her spouse is dead. According to the Scripture, one who is divorced is disqualified from being a pastor or a deacon. In a God-honoring marriage, the husband loves the wife unconditionally and the wife is submissive to the husband.

Money is only a vehicle for doing the will of God. If it ever becomes anything more than that, it is sin. It is to be managed properly and ethically so that God is glorified. A tenth of every penny is God's tithe. Offerings are to be given above the tithe out of a heart of love for God. My personal practice is giving through the Faith Promise Missions program. With God's help, my finances will be obtained through hard work and prayer.

Ministry is a wonderful thing when it comes under God's priority list. My first priority is to be ministered to by the Holy Spirit through the Word of God. My relationship with Jesus Christ is most important. Next on my priority list is my family. If I lose my family, I have lost my ministry. My wife must and will receive special attention for she is part of me. My children must and do receive special attention for they are a witness of my character. Finally, the ministry of the pastorate takes its place after my walk with God and my family. God has given this ministry to me, and I must be a good steward of it. By God's grace it will always be centered around the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. I will attempt to passionately glorify God by evangelizing the lost and edifying the brethren. May my life always point men away from me and to the Savior.

Separation from evil and unto Christ is clearly taught in the Scriptures and must be practiced by God's people. The Bible teaches that in the last days there will be an increase in apostasy and wickedness. It is from this that I separate without apology. I will have no associations with the World Council of Churches or the National Council of Churches. I will not fellowship with those organizations, churches, or individuals (i.e. the Catholic Church, cults, liberals, etc.) that deny the basic fundamental doctrines of Scripture.
Furthermore, I will not fellowship with those organizations, movements, or individuals (i.e. the Charismatic Movement, the Promise Keepers, The Southern Baptist, American Baptist, and Northern Baptist Conventions, New Evangelicals, etc.) who attempt to bridge the denominational or doctrinal gap between Fundamentalism and error. However, I am actively engaged in praying for them and brining them to the Lord. I stand without apology as an Independent, Fundamental Baptist whose sole loyalty is to Jesus Christ and the Word of God.
By God's grace alone, I will strive for holiness and purity both ecclesiastically and personally. I will strive by faith to be separate from the world and unto Christ. This involves separation from drugs, alcohol, tobacco, pornography, the movie industry, any form of rock, country, pop, jazz, disco, or other worldly music, immoral sex, and involvement in worldly amusements. This also involves separation unto the Bible, prayer, worship, Christian fellowship, soul winning, Bible preaching, and active service for Jesus Christ.

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