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Originally Posted by NLYP
What I simply mean is that I would be alot more apt to take advice or even rebuke from a fellow minister then just a saint or someone with no spiritual authority in my life.
I am a whole lot more able and willing to admit my shortcoming to another man of God that may know a little more of what a minister goes through then just a "poster".
Hope that explains what I mean.
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Yes, this may be the clearest explanation of the great divide between lay and clergy I have ever seen. And I've seen some clear ones.
OK, folks, on this side of the gap, we laymen must never speak of anyone on the other side, except in a fawning, adoring, approving tone. We may beat each other up, but we mustn't touch the anointed across the chasm.
On their side, they and only they can point out the specks in each other's eye. And the planks in ours, of course. We are "just saints", after all. We don't know what a minister "goes through". We don't know much of anything, I suppose.
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Timmy, I read this the same way you did and agree with you completely. One day God will use a saint, a lowly saint to minister something profound to NYLP and he will see that God can work through anyone.
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