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I like to introduce myself as…
A committed citizen of Heaven, currently hanging out in South Africa, Earth. The happy husband of the world’s best wife (no seriously). The doting dad of three exhaustingly cute Archers-in-training. The pastor of a vibrant flock of Christ’s sheep.
I was saved in my college years, in South Africa, where I grew up. After graduating with a degree in English and Info Science, I taught high school English (or made a valiant attempt at it). I spent some formative time in Israel working as a garbage man, waitron, and general lackey to the Kibbutz conglomerates. I then translocated to Los Angeles to pursue studies for the ministry at The Master’s Seminary. In six years I got an MDiv, a ThM, and a wife. Oh, and a slightly mongrelized accent. I later returned for the DMin in Expository Preaching.
I directed the Short-Term Missions department at Grace Community Church (no, John MacArthur and I didn’t hang out much). Since 2005 I have served as the pastor of Hillcrest Baptist Church near Durban, South Africa. I have a labrador called Spurgeon and a passion for preaching, travel, writing, gadgets, and vanilla custard.
Short-term missions have taken me to Bhutan, Botswana, Egypt, France, Ireland, India, Japan, Russia, Spain, and Switzerland. I wish I could tell you where this picture was taken, but it was a highly sensitive mission to an persecuted church…
The Archer quiver:
My wife, Kim, is so amazing it messes with my doctrine of angelology.
My firstborn son, Noah Knightley, is a theologian of note (at age five he answers questions about election and the resurrection with insight and conviction).
My girl, Autumn Dawn, is a sunbeam of feisty joy, and I think I’ll need a shotgun for when the suitors start lining up at our door.
Jude Hudson is a charming rogue with a disarming sense of humor, and a casual coolness that he must have inherited from distant relatives.
Our latest (and final?) addition is Adelaide Jolie. She smiles more easily than any other Archer–which is saying a lot. I’m pretty sure she’ll fit right in if she keeps up laughing at my jokes, even when she understand them.
I am a writer. Being able to write that sentence is a dream come true. Up with being a pastor and family man, writing is my third great passion.
Besides the chapter, Short-Term Missions: Supporting Those We Send, published in John MacArthur’s Rediscovering Evangelism (Thomas Nelson, Nashville, Tenn., 2011) I wrote my first a book on eternal rewards for preachers, called The Preacher’s Payday, published by Day One Publishers. It is based on my doctoral research, which shaped by world view and affected my ministry decisions in many ways.
Another collaborative work, on intimidating doctrines, released in 2014 with Harvest House Publishers. It’s intriguingly titled, Things that Go Bump in the Church.
Also released in 2014 was a book on Short-Term Missions called Holding the Rope (William Carey Library Books). It was born of my research and experience as STM co-ordinator at Grace Community Church in Los Angeles.
I have two more books due for publication: The Home Team (Shepherd’s Press, 2014) on the family working together as a team to conquer the stresses of modern life; and A Visitor’s Guide to Hell (Sterling Books, 2015), based on the biblical doctrines of Hell, written as an evangelistic work.
I contribute every Monday to the team-blog TheCripplegate.com
My heroes are George Whitefield, Charles Spurgeon, and whoever’s biography I am reading at the moment.
Best advice I got in seminary: “If it breathes, preach at it” -Dr. Alex Montoya.
My preaching is best in my home pulpit at Hillcrest Baptist, where I am seven years into a 40 year ministry (DV).
After that I’m sure they’ll need volunteers for a short-term trip to Mars.
Feel free to e-mail me at my personal address, seminoid@clintarcher.com
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