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About Pastor Don Carpenter
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I am a father of four and a Baptist Pastor. Before becoming a senior pastor, I was a youth pastor and worker for over 10 years. If you ask this volunteer a question, you will get the benifit of 20 + years experience in the ministry and the counsel of the Bible, God`s perfect book. Feel free to ask any Biblical or moral questions.
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I have been involved in pastoral type counseling for 20+ years. Most of my experience has been with chemical addiction, crisis intervention, and some types of severe mental illness. I have some secular training in those areas as well as a Bible College degree.
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Evangelical Baptist Church
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Revival Baptist Chronicles
The Fundamental Baptist Voice
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BS in Bible from Baptist Bible College in CLarks Summit PA
Various training seminars in, Co-occuring disorders, treatment of those who have been sexually abused, and Solution Focused Therapy.
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You are here: Experts > Teens > Teen Advice > Teenage Problems > friends and girlfriends
Expert: Pastor Don Carpenter
Date: 9/27/2008
Subject: friends and girlfriends
Question
i am fifteen years old guy, i am the only boy and my parents expect a lot from me. my parents are pastors also. my best friend is a muslim. i really love him cause of his personality. i tried to introduce him to my mother but she hated him cause he's a muslim and thinks he's going to teach me bad stuff. and also my parents tell me its bad to have a girlfriend but i do have one and we abstain from sex totally. please i need your opinion
Answer
Hi Joshua,
Thanks for these great questions. Let me remind you of what the Bible teaches:
Proverbs 4:1-4
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. 2 For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law. 3 For I was my father’s son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. 4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
The King James Version, (Cambridge: Cambridge) 1769.
God gave you your parents by design. They see things that you cannot see yet. It is very unwise to assume that they are wrong and that you understand better than they do. You will be safest following the direction of both your parents and your pastors.
Hebrews 13:17
17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
The King James Version, (Cambridge: Cambridge) 1769.
I know that is not what you wanted to hear, but I hope that it helps. By the way, even if I would make a different call in the areas in question, God did not give me to you as your parent, He gave you the ones you have.... follow them.
In Christ
Pastor Don
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