UPC Pastor Convicted of Slander in Pulpit!

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Perhaps the lateness of the hour is fuzzing both our brains. Perhaps you would notice I put doctrines in quotes, in response to someone else using that terminology. I do not believe standards are doctrines, but guidelines which the ministry does, indeed, have the authority to set. When Christ upbraided the pharisees for their teachings, he was very specific about what his problem with them was. It wasnt that they made rules, but that they presented those rules as doctrines, and then that they themselves refused to come close to following those same rules. I think the authority to bind and loose is clearly the authority to set guidelines and set limitations.