From the Pulpit to the Door

By Pastor Jane Felton

The Bible warns all believers to beware of the wolf in sheeps clothing. But what do we do when it is the very shepherd of the flock who is endangering the sheep? What do we do when our very own pastors and church leaders are using their positions to deceive, abuse, and ruin the lives of children and vulnerable members of the church?

In From the Pulpit to the Door, author and pastor Jane Felton shares her own sad but informative tale of dealing with the people who are supposed to take souls closer to Godbut who are in fact doing the opposite. Pastor Felton hopes to teach people to be aware of the signs of what can happen when a church leader is deceiving or harming the children in the church, and she implores fellow believers to remember that the Word of God tells us to watch as well as to pray.

So much of what is happening to vulnerable Christian youths can be eliminated if Christian parents remember to be more watchful of their children. While abuse by pastors and church leaders happens in many faiths and can often be covered up, God reveals all sins and will deliver justice for any who have been harmed by deceitful, abusive shepherds.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Sep 5, 2017
• ISBN: 9781532029400

Pastor Jane Felton

Pastor Jane Felton was raised in a small farming town in New Jersey, and she received her education in Pennsylvania. She came from a large religious family, and she was married early and had four children. Today she is a pastor and travels to meetings, and she has raised numerous foster children. Before retiring, Pastor Felton worked as a classroom assistant and noontime aide.

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ISBN: 978-1-5320-2939-4 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5320-2940-0 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2017912094

iUniverse rev. date: 09/01/2017

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Epilogue

Introduction

God’s Church

Yahweh Had a Plan

A fter carefully considering all the different ways He could establish the world, God decided to use the Genesis plan. Being the Master Architect, He had had many more plans on the drawing board of His mind but had finally picked Genesis.

Being a spirit, God could be in all places and know what was going on at each one. With Him, there is no time. He is eternal. He could have created it all at the same time but didn’t.

He lavishly furnished the heavens and the earth with every good and perfect specimen. He left nothing out. He decided to create heirs to watch over it for Him and to enjoy it. He made living souls who would watch over it and maintain it for their pleasure.

He finished His creation in six days and made the seventh day for a time to rest, relax, and enjoy the works that had come from His mind. The week can never be altered. It begins on the first day of the week and ends on the seventh, which He named the Sabbath.

It was God’s desire for His likenesses (man and woman) to always remember what He had done at the beginning of the Creation. It doesn’t matter how many centuries have passed. The established fact is that a week consists of seven days, and the seventh day is the Sabbath—a day of rest for the people of God.

It doesn’t matter which day of the week you choose as your