Pastors Leading the flock???)

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On Tue, 8 Sep 1998 02:51:44 -0500 tlwitness@juno.com (Jerry Welch)
writes:
>And MOST IMPORTANTLY, do we blindly ASSUME that everyone who is >called
a Pastor is following Christ?

Well, if you are praying and the Pastor is praying and you find that he
is saying what you need the Spirit to say to you, it is not a problem to
blindly follow. You have stated you have some previous problems, yet you
do not seem to state if you believe what the Pastor says or not. Now if
you do not feel good vibes, well maybe one of you is not in tune with the
correct mission. I would agree that in the ideas you have mentioned
previously, you would be thankful of any church government to refer to,
when the said Pastor was a ways too far in deep left field.


>If not, then what is a Saint "allowed" to question in a Pentecostal
>Church?

If it were to cause divisions, never. If you wanted to ask privately or
in a small group, well that would seem ok. I would not ask my Pastor if I
can wear green socks on Tuesday, or any other Holiness Standard, or
conviction in front of another. In private, we have disagreed a few
times. I have never stated my disagreement in public except once and it
was not proper as it cast him in a bad light. Given the hindsight, that
also cast me in a worse light. I am glad my current Pastor prays before
he says something.

Brian Berger
Manchester, NH
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