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Originally Posted by Michael Phelps
If this is true, I wonder what the pastor would say to a saint who withheld tithes and offerings because they didn't like the sermon he preached?
My guess is that the pastors response to that situation would be much different.
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I don't want to be misunderstood as applauding pastors withholding their offerings over the NAYC incidents, but I do want to address something in your post.
It is a fallacy to compare a pastor's relationship with and responsibility to a man made organization with the relationship of a saint and their local church.
Never the twain shall meet.
I do understand the frustration of the grass roots with a WEC that seems less and less in touch with them...I'm not sure withholding money from those who need it is the best way to express it though.
But the UPC is the the Church, and elected officials are not "Master Pastors" in spiritual authority over other pastors.
So your analogy doesn't hold up.
That false concept is one of the biggest problems in the organization.
I can say this because I am a member.
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