Dr. Clayton Cloer has served as the President of the Baptist University of Florida since January 1, 2023. Dr. Cloer served as the Senior Pastor of the 2,600-member Church at the Cross and the President of the Central Florida Christian Academy in Orlando from October of 2003 to June of 2022. Dr. Cloer received his Bachelors in Management from Clemson University in 1991, Master of Divinity in 1995, and Ph.D. in 2000 from Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary.
Dr. Cloer is known for his faithful leadership, integrity, and biblical preaching. He served as the President of the Florida Baptist Convention’s 2009 Pastors’ Conference, the state pastoral leader for marriage in 2008, and the leader of the ReVision Task Force for all of Florida Baptists from 2011 to 2013.
He has preached extensively throughout the United States in college chapels, leadership conferences, and special meetings and has led church development, leadership training, and evangelism teams to Paraguay, Yemen, Belgium, China, South Korea, Moldova, Israel, Tanzania, and Thailand.
Dr. Cloer met Linda at Clemson University more than 30 years ago. They have been married for 32 years and have two grown sons.
July 14, 2024 AM
Clayton Cloer
1 John 1:1-10
Three alarming trends:
1) __ That You Can Trust
2) __ That You Can Trust
(2 Peter 1:16-18)
Three present __ influence beliefs:
“Some books were no more than assumptions piled on assumptions…Conclusions were reached on the basis of little or no data at all…The whole case for the non-divine Jesus who stumbled into Jerusalem and somehow got crucified…that whole picture which had floated around the liberal circles I frequented as an atheist for thirty years – that case was not made. Not only was it not made, I discovered in this field some of the worst and most biased scholarship I’d ever read.” – Annie Rice
3) __ That You Can Trust
4) __ That You Can Trust
(John 15:11-15)
July 14, 2024 PM
Clayton Cloer
Titus 2:1-5
1) __ transcends time and culture
4 Objections to Truth:
2) __ is the teaching of the revealed set of truth
Sound doctrine will spring from a __ foundation and extend to a __ manifestation.
3) Doctrine matters because the __ is pure and __ is evil
4) Doctrine matters because you will __ others
5) Doctrine matters because you have to __ the truth to be set free