 |
|
05-18-2015, 05:15 PM
|
 |
Registered Member
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 2,710
|
|
|
Re: Sitting under a pastor?
I know some people who have ruined there health trying to be skinny so that is why I felt to chime when in it was said that it was a reproach for people to be overweight. I think the content of character is a better way to judge people and not by image.
|
05-18-2015, 05:50 PM
|
 |
Administrator
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 16,840
|
|
|
Re: Sitting under a pastor?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Michael The Disciple
Who gets to judge which is which? Lets do this. Tell us the things you believe are MAJOR.
|
For any group I would think that "major" would be their core salvational doctrines. By minor I mean things that are not salvational such as church government, eschatology, etc.
For example at my church I know there is one elder who doesn't believe we should celebrate Holidays. I sincerely believe he has the right to be wrong on this issue as he is. However I don't stop going to my church because a elder has this belief and he doesn't stop coming because the pastor doesn't preach this from the pulpit.
__________________
"I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
|
05-19-2015, 07:41 AM
|
 |
Registered Member
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 1,258
|
|
|
Re: Sitting under a pastor?
Just being curious .... What were the names of the Pastors of the 1st Century Churches at Rome, Corinth, Galatia, Ephesus, Philippi, Colosse, or Thessalonica? I can't seem to find the name of an individual serving in such a capacity in any of the New Testament letters written to these churches? Just wondering who the Pastors were that the saints of these churches were "sitting under"?
|
05-19-2015, 08:25 AM
|
 |
Registered Member
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Portage la Prairie, MB CANADA
Posts: 38,161
|
|
|
Re: Sitting under a pastor?
Quote:
Originally Posted by good samaritan
gluttony is a sin being overweight from it is irrelevant. gluttony is a sin even if you are not overweight from it.
|
That's why I said overweight due to gluttony. Admit it. Most overweight people eat too much. Most.
__________________
...MY THOUGHTS, ANYWAY.
"Many Christians do not try to understand what was written in a verse in the Bible. Instead they approach the passage to prove what they already believe."
|
05-19-2015, 09:12 AM
|
|
Registered Member
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 1,778
|
|
|
Re: Sitting under a pastor?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Lafon
Just being curious .... What were the names of the Pastors of the 1st Century Churches at Rome, Corinth, Galatia, Ephesus, Philippi, Colosse, or Thessalonica? I can't seem to find the name of an individual serving in such a capacity in any of the New Testament letters written to these churches? Just wondering who the Pastors were that the saints of these churches were "sitting under"?
|
Don't ask, let it go.
Good question though.
|
05-19-2015, 09:19 AM
|
|
Registered Member
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 1,258
|
|
|
Re: Sitting under a pastor?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Michael The Disciple
For the most part it means showing up at the meeting and listening to the sermon. Not much more than that.
|
Oh, Michael! You failed to mention retrieving one of those small envelopes, usually located near the doorway leading to the auditorium, in which you're expected, yea, demanded, to deposit a minimum of 10% of the "filthy lucre" you earned from your labors since your previous visit. After repeated visits, and failing to do so, will surely result in a private consultation with the "sitting pastor," who will indoctrinate you on this requirement. LOL
|
05-19-2015, 09:31 AM
|
|
Registered Member
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 1,778
|
|
|
Re: Sitting under a pastor?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Lafon
Oh, Michael! You failed to mention retrieving one of those small envelopes, usually located near the doorway leading to the auditorium, in which you're expected, yea, demanded, to deposit a minimum of 10% of the "filthy lucre" you earned from your labors since your previous visit. After repeated visits, and failing to do so, will surely result in a private consultation with the "sitting pastor," who will indoctrinate you on this requirement. LOL
|
Private? Not anymore!
|
05-19-2015, 09:49 AM
|
|
Registered Member
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Portage la Prairie, MB CANADA
Posts: 38,161
|
|
|
Re: Sitting under a pastor?
Pastors are literally shepherds, and that means sheep must be under the pastor/shepherd, like sheep are under a shepherd. So if there were not any people under the pastor, then there were not pastors like the bible says there were!
If there were pastors, then who were they and who were the sheep who were guided by these shepherds?
__________________
...MY THOUGHTS, ANYWAY.
"Many Christians do not try to understand what was written in a verse in the Bible. Instead they approach the passage to prove what they already believe."
|
05-19-2015, 11:42 AM
|
|
Registered Member
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 1,778
|
|
|
Re: Sitting under a pastor?
Quote:
Originally Posted by mfblume
Pastors are literally shepherds, and that means sheep must be under the pastor/shepherd, like sheep are under a shepherd. So if there were not any people under the pastor, then there were not pastors like the bible says there were!
If there were pastors, then who were they and who were the sheep who were guided by these shepherds?
|
With the invention of the internet that can reach into remote areas could people be shepherd using this technology I wonder?
What's your take on this?
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
| |
|
Linear Mode
