What's wrong with this picture?
Pastor I am gifted to teach, can I restart my class (the one you canceled) in another part of the facility?
Pastor returns after praying about it. Here are five or six things you can teach on. Which one do you want to teach on?
He chooses one of the 5 or 6 subjects or books of the Bible as mandated by the pastor.
You can teach but here's what you have to teach. You get to choose between five or six subjects of books in the Bible.
Am I the only one who sees something wrong with this picture? What's wrong?
posted by Bob Carder @ 11:50 PM
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Is this a real event, or something thought up just for discussion?
It's real alright. This happened recently to one of the finest lay Biblical teachers, a better teacher than a allot of professional clergy.
Gosh, real, huh? I would say the church has a pastor problem. I like that a pastor gives GUIDANCE to the educational direction of the church, but this sounds like much more than mere guidance. This sounds like a dangerous need to control every part of the church. And then, who's church is it?
Mike, How do you know this would not happen in your church?
Because I know my pastor.
Without full knowledge of the situation you're talking about, it's hard to offer real input. For instance, knowing what the topic of the class was and why the pastor felt compelled to cancel it would be helpful.
When you were my pastor, I gladly submitted to your leadership because I could see the integrity on which you stood. You never told me I couldn't do something, but if you had I would have listened out of my desire to be submissive to your leadership.
But, if I felt you were abusing your leadership, I would also have, biblically, called you on that.
I've said it before here and I still believe it. I think we, as a people, need leaders -- not, necessarily, to tell us what to do, but to enable us to do what God is calling us to do and, yes, to serve as a sort of "clearinghouse" to protect the church from the teaching of false doctrine.
When this becomes a problem, for me, is either when:
A. the pastor becomes enamored of the "power" he has and begins to rule rather than guide.
B. or the pastor chooses not to exercise the power he has and instead allows others to run roughshod over him.
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