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Originally Posted by Sam
We are told to judge a tree by its fruit. The way to tell the real from the fake is to see if they walk in love. Jesus said that the world will know whether we are real or not by whether we have love for one another or not.
There are lots of "pastors" who have large churches, large homes, large cars, large expense accounts and large egos. Some have inherited this like a family business. There are others who live in obscurity and carry on their hearts a small portion of God's flock over which they have been placed as under shepherds. Some of these pastors plus their wives (or husband) have to work full time just to keep clothes on their backs and food on their tables and to pay the utilities and rent or mortgage payment on the church.
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I agree. That is where it should take all the members of the body of Christ to form a local body. (equal responsibility) No two people should hold all the responsibility of the church building. Gathering for a meeting together takes the hands and the feet, as well as the brain and the heart and soul of a meeting. I agree that there are many God-fearing people-loving pastors out there....I just have not seen any that are Jesus Name in my area as of late.
And...I don't have a problem going to a trinitarian church if the people all love one another. That is where Christ is.
It's just that as a saint, who sometimes has been treated like the excrement from the body to be flushed, I do not appreciate being told that I must conform to a look or style that I object to, then be told I must pay them 10% of my household budget to order me around when it comes to the "pentecostal' look and then disguise that 10% as being given to God, when I know that in
some churches, it goes
straight into the pastor's pocket.
Oh how I wish that I could find a little church who wants all of the body to labor together for the cause of Christ.
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