Should they leave or stay?

[freeatlast]

Originally Posted by Pianoman

In this situation, the paster knew of the young preacher's potential. He had plans to use the young man's leadership abilities to help grow his church.

In my opinion, the pastor knew that it would be a huge loss for his church, so he told the young preacher that it wasn't God's will!

My point is that the PREACHER's WILL was made to be GOD's WILL!

Yup..... I got your point.

at my old church it was very difficult to get permission to go to bible school.

Talented preachers were not allowed to preach out.

Why? same reason PM. They were expected to help grow the kingdom of God.

It seemed to be more the preachrs kingdom.

When retirement time came he orchestrated putting his son in law in as pastor.

SIL took over 200 K out of the church his last year there before resigning, and most of the year he didn't even preach. he had an evangelist in for most of the year who got paid more than most pastors on this forum made.

They were paid off in a nice building, but are now gouing deep in debt to build a building twice the size of the one that was no where near filled up.

So glad I escaped when I did. Went to assit a nieghboring pastor. I had to leave against the WILL of THE pastor...but I have never doubted GOD WILL was in my move.

[Whole Hearted]

Originally Posted by freeatlast

Yup..... I got your point.

at my old church it was very difficult to get permission to go to bible school.

Talented preachers were not allowed to preach out.

Why? same reason PM. They were expected to help grow the kingdom of God.

It seemed to be more the preachrs kingdom.

When retirement time came he orchestrated putting his son in law in as pastor.

SIL took over 200 K out of the church his last year there before resigning, and most of the year he didn't even preach. he had an evangelist in for most of the year who got paid more than most pastors on this forum made.

They were paid off in a nice building, but are now gouing deep in debt to build a building twice the size of the one that was no where near filled up.

So glad I escaped when I did. Went to assit a nieghboring pastor. I had to leave against the WILL of THE pastor...but I have never doubted GOD WILL was in my move.

Why in the world would a pastor want the headache and stress of a building program when it wasn't needed.

I don't understand why any pastor wouldn't want good young men to come out of his ministry.

Doesnt make sense to me.

[freeatlast]

Originally Posted by Whole Hearted

Why in the world would a pastor want the headache and stress of a building program when it wasn't needed.

I don't understand why any pastor wouldn't want good young men to come out of his ministry.

Doesnt make sense to me.

Yeah..but we just preacher bashing wholeheated;

What do you call it when YOU are under men that act as Lords over Gods heritage.

[freeatlast]

Originally Posted by Whole Hearted

Why in the world would a pastor want the headache and stress of a building program when it wasn't needed.

I don't understand why any pastor wouldn't want good young men to come out of his ministry.

Doesnt make sense to me.

I was told he could'nt get along without my tithe if took a leave of absence from my job to go to college.

Greed and selfisness might be the reasons, that a pastor wanted to hoard the talent to build his own kingdom/church, instead of allowing God to use people in HIS KINGDOM.