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Originally Posted by UnTraditional
I wonder if ministers are better than regular believers? Do they think they can have a different biblical standard than the other believers? Absolutely not! But, I have no problem with preachers having their own forum to support one another and build themselves up on the most holy faith.
As a minister, as a believer, I do not ever want to think that I am leading people to believe I am better or of a higher quality than anyone else. If anything, I covet the prayers of the saints, so that I may walk worthy of the calling, and that my feet step no more to the right or left. I want to be right, and know that when I step into the pulpit, I am under greater condemnation for what I preach.
So, when preachers get big headed and think they are better, pray hard and fast for them that God would humble them under the power of His Holy Spirit. But, let us hold up the warriors in the pulpits, whether they be fiberglass, wood, or street corner, and pray God's grace, mercy, and anointing to keep them in all their ways.
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Good post.
No. A preacher is not any better than anyone else. In fact, sometimes he is less than a proper example before a flock of God's sheep than he should be or could be if he was more consecrated than he might be.
However, regardless of the human flaws in that man of God, when he don the cloak of his God-called office and steps into the pulpit by his divine appointment, it is a fearful thing to touch this man as to his office. It is a fearful thing to do regardless if you are a king or serf or regardless of how little that you might esteem the man in the natural.
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