Everybody must have a pastor?

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Originally Posted by mfblume

That is taken out of context! A human church member as an elder is a covering of the Spirit of God.

If that were the case, how come Moses told people on God's side to come to him, when the people worshiped the golden calf?? Why did Jesus honour the faith of the centurion who said BECAUSE he was a man under authority he himself had authority?

Mat 8:9-10 KJV For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it. (10) When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.

The whole principle was perfect in the kingdom.

Why did Paul submit to the apostles when he first received revelation to get their right hand of fellowship?

I don't think the verse means what you think it means.

We aren't to think that because the roman soldier was a man under authority that it somehow granted him exceptional faith.

Rather, because he was a man under authority, he realized in the same way, the sickness afflicting his servant was under the authority of Christ, and in the same way he could give an order to an underling and expect it to be obeyed, the sickness could receive but an order from Christ, without any other demonstration, and it--the sickness--should obey the Lord.

This is what caused Jesus to marvel at the man's faith. Here a un-covenated pagan understood the Messianic authority over sickness better than the people of God who had been promised a Messiah with power over sickness and disease.