Disaffiliation with the UPC????

[pelathais]

Originally Posted by hometown guy

the problem with a committe ran church is that you have a pastor who will dance around most things.verble bean talks about this in the book "the battlefeild"(i think it was that book)you should all get it and read it.the book is really good.

On another thread there is a discussion of a very "conservative" pastor who had no "committee" but still found he was forced to do the dance you describe; and it had horrible consequences for his family.

I personally was involved in a church where the pastor attempted to exercise autocracy. His failing was that he too was subject to the manipulations of unscrupulous people and his family suffered rather badly as well.

You've no doubt seen some of the "example cases" that so-called anti-cult" groups have put up on the web. In all of the notorious cases of "abuse" it was because of a lone "conservative" pastor who was simply trying to "follow his conscience" in the way he managed his church. These cases have brought a great deal of shame upon the UPC fellowship and on Apostolics in general.

Because of the television ban we have not had to suffer humiliation from the much celebrated scandals of televangelists. But we really have never needed television to humiliate ourselves in public. What better way to stifle these abuses then to have our pastors accountable to the people they purportedly are serving?