Saved Without A Pastor??

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Originally Posted by Tithesmeister

I have looked up some statistics. I think it is interesting.

Out of the five-fold ministries, which are mentioned the most in the Bible?

Which are mentioned the least?

I'm going to break it down into OT and NT to provide a little bit of context for they who think it matters (which would include me). I am also going to search the base word, not all variations, just to make it easy.

Eph.4
[11] And he gave some, apostle;s and some, prophet;s and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

Apostle

OT- 0

NT- 83

Prophet

OT- 327

NT- 163

Evangelist

OT- 0

NT- 3

Teacher

OT- 7

NT- 13

Pastor

OT- 8

NT- 1

It appears that prophet takes the award for most mentions, and . . .

Pastors take the award for the least mentioned of the five-fold ministries by a VERY large margin. In fact if pastor was mentioned one fewer time in the NT, it would not have been mentioned at all. The Evangelist (as in Benincasa) gets mentioned three times as many as the pastor in the NT!?

Does it seem to anyone that we are out of balance here?

Anyway, I thought it was interesting.

The Apostle is written in place of the Pastors because they were the Bishops to these churches. The letters and the book of Acts is all we have. You act like there is some detailed account of the church besides the book of Acts.

So since we don't live in the time of the Apostles this of course would go to a Pastor. Tell me how many Prophets you know? Who are they and do you submit to them? So do you submit to the Evangelist? Because you alluded the true question.