Submission to a pastor

[seekerman]

There is an hierarchy in our relationship with God that must be followed in order to have a proper relationship with God....

1Co 11:1 Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
1Co 11:2 Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.
1Co 11:3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

Paul was teaching that as long as he followed Christ, then follow him. But, don't forget the head of every man is Christ, not the preacher, not the pastor or evangelist, but Christ.

When someone starts teaching pastoral authority, I don't listen to much else they have to say. That means the pastor isn't leading by example. Of course what would help tremendously is for the members of that congregation to actually study and read the bible for themselves instead of looking for a man to lord over them.