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Old 07-21-2018, 10:09 PM
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What is the role of a Pastor? What is the purpose of mentors? Is there anyone that we should subject ourselves to-- naturally or spiritually? Is there a wrong way to do the right thing?
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What is the role of a Pastor? What is the purpose of mentors? Is there anyone that we should subject ourselves to-- naturally or spiritually? Is there a wrong way to do the right thing?
Reading your posts on this threads makes me think you might be the sort of person who looks to the pastor to tell them what car to buy, what house to buy, etc, etc.

Jedi may very well be making a big mistake moving. I wouldn't do it without a job secured but then he did say he has free rent for awhile so that does give him some breathing room. However as the person responsible for his families well being he has the right to pursue a better life in another area. If I were him I would have discussed it with my pastor as a courtesy but I would not have felt it was my pastors decision to make.
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A good Pastor will not make this about permission anyway.

Your Pastor loves you and (absent a direct word from God) he is not looking to put you in a situation where you would be breaking your own neck to do whatever it is you want to do.
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Reading your posts on this threads makes me think you might be the sort of person who looks to the pastor to tell them what car to buy, what house to buy, etc, etc.

Jedi may very well be making a big mistake moving. I wouldn't do it without a job secured but then he did say he has free rent for awhile so that does give him some breathing room. However as the person responsible for his families well being he has the right to pursue a better life in another area. If I were him I would have discussed it with my pastor as a courtesy but I would not have felt it was my pastors decision to make.

By heeding this BIBLICAL CONCEPT a person can reap the benefits of making good decisions about natural life simply by speaking and consulting with people who might know more than us and who might have been exposed to more than us.

Sometimes, God uses people to speak to us, people like our Pastors or even spiritual mentors, giving words of wisdom or even advice ordained just for that moment.

God will bless His children, but we circumvent His process and potentially diminish the blessings He would give us when we don't do things His Way.


JediWill,
If you have a Pastor and if you have not spoken with him YET, I want to encourage you to do so. Everyone knows going to NC is your decision to make-- no one questions that at all. However... just do this God's Way.

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