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Originally Posted by good samaritan
Sean, Do you have any spiritual authority in your life? What does it mean to submit ourselves one to another. I don't make this comment to do anything with tithing. If you isolate yourself from the body it is like severing a limb the result you die. I regularly learn from other men. I believe in church's being structured in a way that prevents a monarchy rule, but I also believe that if submission only takes place when you agree than that isn't submission. Submitting is yielding to another's will over your own.
If my pastor asks me to tithe? I will if I can.
If I don't trust the leaders in my church, I am gonna pray for the Lord to send me elsewhere.
If my pastor tells me I am going to hell if I don't tithe. I would probably want to talk about it deeper privately and then I would tithe if I could (tithing is not explicitly a salvation issue, but giving is). I would then pray for him and I would pray for God's direction. Just because someone isn't doctrinally perfect in every way I will be careful to keep unity as long as the gospel of Jesus Christ is the foundation.
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Some people simply refuse to submit to spiritual leadership.
It is a spirit of rebellion.
I often stayed in churches where I disagreed with the pastor on some issues.
I was willing to submit myself to his leadership because I knew that it is correct to do so.
When the pastor mentioned a subject that I disagree with I simply kept quiet and ignored any urge to correct him or "set him Right". it was not my job to set my pastor right, that is God's job.