[OP_Carl]

Originally Posted by COOPER

In this day and age of organizations, when a minister signs a contract or affirmation statement.....

How can a minister serve God and follow after Gods leading, but yet be under subjection to a collective network.

God is not bound to the authorities of any organization.

How then can a man of God serve God, but then be subject to the final say of his Org and peers?

God is not bound to the authorities of any organization. However God recognizes the value of good standing with both church peers and the "outside world" when it comes to preserving the purity of the gospel message and when it comes to effectively persuading sinners to take a closer look at what Christianity has to offer. Most people can detect hypocrisy from age 3.

1 Timothy 3
1 This is a true saying, if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

4 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

6 Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

7 Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

Titus 1
6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.

7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;

8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;

9 Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.