The Role of a Pastor

[Coonskinner]

Originally Posted by missourimary

The reasoning was that if we needed to be in a good church to go to heaven, to forsake not the assembling of ourselves, and if we needed to be in submission to a good pastor, and the pastor threw us out, then he was essentially condemning us to hell. Especially if other churches followed the manual and wouldn't accept those who tried to transfer without a letter of recommendation. Therefore, if the pastor wasn't happy with us, he could condemn us.

I now love Rom 8:31What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? 32He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? 33Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. 34Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. 35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The Scripture never contradicts itself.

Line upon line, precept upon precept.

We have to take it all. The Bible isn't a buffet where we select what we like and pass on the rest.