Pastors Leading the flock???)

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On Sun, 6 Sep 1998 19:35:33 EDT ReedActs@AOL.com writes:

> Bro.  Welch:
>Let me let YOU in on a little secret: There ARE Churches where the 
>Pastor has out and out told people who have to move for reasons 
>of jobs, >etc., that THEIR Church is the only one where that person 
>can get to Heaven from.
> 
> Mike:
> Hmmm.  I didn't know that was a secret.  It is becoming more and more 
>evident to me that some people on this list enjoy setting up "strawmen."
 
>First we talk about whether or not a pastor has the authority to
establish 
>standards in a local assembly, and then we argue the point by 
>saying there are totalitarians out there?  Okay, there *are* some 
>totalitarians out there.

To end this particular point of the thread, do I understand you correctly
that you believe such use of Pastoral authority is an abuse of such power
(the totalitarian) and is wrong?

>What does that have to do with pastors having the authority to 
>establish standards?  God forbid we may have a thief or a child 
>molester out there that is posing as a "Man of God," what does 
>that have to do with the our point?

While I don't know what thieves have to do with this, my point that
"power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely" also works on
Pastors.

My point is that you can't have totalitarians (which do TREMENDOUS
wounding to the saints of God) if standards are not placed on the same
keel as scripture, or made a test of fellowship or salvation.  If we
willingly place stumblingblocks in front of saints, are we not
responsible if they fall?

Jerry Welch

www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/2810/

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