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Re: Prominent Memphis Area Pastor Resigns
I'm not so sure the Bible is against families working together. Look at the priesthood in the Old Testament...talk about "nepotism."
Family members are often more dependable and more trusted. For those reasons, they can be preferable over someone who is even more qualified. I agree that it can be done badly, but it can also work well. There are plenty of churches that have non-family members in leadership and their leadership structure is no better. It really depends on the character of the senior pastor[s] or elders and how they handle the structure as a whole.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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