Metropolitan Tabernacle

The Metropolitan Tabernacle is a large Reformed Baptist church in the Elephant and Castle in London. The Tabernacle church dates back to the year 1650, 30 years after the Puritans and Pilgrims of Southwark departed for the New World and after Parliament had forbidden the meetings of the Baptists. Became world-famous Metropolitan Tabernacle preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon by his. The congregation grew through him so strongly that they soon had congregations of 10,000 people. Therefore, the Tabernacle from its original site in the New Park Street Chapel had to move several times and finally settled in its current location, where the martyrs were burnt Southwark. Therefore, the foundation stone bears the inscription " The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. "

The Second World War, the number of parishioners fell sharply. When Dr. Peter Masters 1970, the new pastor, he had a congregation of 30 people, but this number has increased over the past 38 years to an estimated 1000. The Metropolitan Tabernacle is now large enough to hold an annual School of Theology, as well as to offer a part-time training for Reformed pastors.

Church services and other events

The church holds two worship services on Sunday. A morning at 11 clock, be interpreted in the ongoing biblical texts, and one in the afternoon which serves to seekers at 18.30 clock, especially the preaching of the Gospel. The services include not only the sermon, which lasts 35-45 minutes, the singing of hymns and psalms. In addition, there is a Sunday school for children, and a Bible lesson and a lesson in Christian doctrine.

During the week, Monday and Wednesday prayer meeting at 19.30 clock is a Bible study where God's Word is also taught. This is attended by about 500 people. All sermons and Bible study can be downloaded from the homepage of the community. Every Thursday night is also offered a Bible study and prayer group for the deaf.

On Saturday afternoon there will be a Bible study for those Chinese who still have problems with the English language. These sermons are now also available in Mandarin.

More offers of this ministry

TV and radio

The services are broadcast daily on the television UCB TV and Sky 677, beyond the sermons of five radio stations in the U.S. and New Zealand are included in the program.

Sword & Trowel

The Sword & Trowel magazine first appeared 1863 CH Spurgeon and now enjoys a large readership worldwide, especially among pastors and church leaders. In 2003, the magazine and its format now appears in each case together with a book publication. The large number of subscribers, it enables both the magazine and the books to be offered at a very low price.

Annual School of Theology

The annual School of Theology of the Tabernacle was the first time held in 1976, since then each over three days in the first week of July. Details of the topics and speakers will be published to the respective March.

Tabernacle Bookshop

The special feature of the Tabernacle Bookshop is that all the books on offer is a well-founded Reformed doctrine is based. The bookstore is keen idea to keep books that represent a dubious doctrine from the range.

London Reformed Baptist Seminary

The seminary LRBS began in 1976 as a part-time course over four years. The students are made up of pastors, lay preachers, church leaders and men who have a strong interest in theology. The study includes an intensive reading program, and once a month a full-day lecture series.

Clergy offices abroad

The Tabernacle currently supports 20 world pastors and their church start-ups, many of them visited the LRBS for their education. Supported by the Tabernacle churches are found in Belarus, Ghana ( four ), India ( three ), Indonesia, Mali, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Romania, Saint Lucia, Slovakia, Spain, and Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.

Lessons for Life project

This project has the objective of promoting, Sunday schools in the UK and abroad. To achieve this, in the early 1990s and started a book series to life, which makes it easy to understand the biblical teaching with graphic aids for children. The books have now been translated into French and Bengali. More translations see currently take into Portuguese, Spanish and Chinese.

Pastor

• William Rider, 1653-1665 (12 years)
• Benjamin Keach, 1668-1704 (36 years )
• Benjamin Stinton, 1704-1718 (14 years)
• Dr. John Gill, 1720-1771 (51 years )
• Dr. John Rippon, 1773-1836 (63 years )
• Joseph Angus, 1837-1839 (2 years)
• James Smith, 1841-1850 (8.5 years)
• William Walters, 1851-1853 (2 years)
• Charles Haddon Spurgeon, 1854-1892 (38 years )
• Arthur Tappan Pierson, 1891-1893 (2 years)
• Thomas Spurgeon, 1893-1908 (15 years)
• Archibald G Brown, 1908-1911 (3 years)
• Dr. Amzi Clarence Dixon, 1911-1919 (8 years)
• Harry Tydeman Chilvers, 1919-1935 ( 15.5 years )
• Dr. W Graham Scroggie, 1938-1943 (5 years)
• W G Channon, 1944-1949 (5 years)
• Gerald B Griffiths, 1951-1954 (3 years)
• Eric W Hayden, 1956-1962 (6 years)
• Dennis Pascoe 1963-1969 (6 years)
• Dr. Peter Masters, 1970 - up to now