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Originally Posted by bbyrd009
Ah, well, I woke back up to say that certainly not all Pastors have this conflict of interest, at least the unaffiliated ones. With an affiliated Pastor, it is undeniably, unavoidably built in, whether manifest or not; but this is no secret.
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Ok, dang, we'll get to the end of Bell's theorem here in a sec, but I guess this should be clarified, by request. Since it's clear to me, if you notice I did this part wrong, feel free:
It is really tough to become a Pastor; you have just graduated, you're in debt, prolly, you love God, and your offers are, say, $40k + parsonage in a 1500-2500 member church, with perks (the Affiliated church), or please we really need a Pastor, we have 250 members now, our church has gotten too big for us because the Spirit is moving here, + a nice single-wide trailer and we promise to feed you good (unaffiliated).
Now, I've never been a Pastor, and I just made all that up.
What would you do?
The one little catch is, you have to abide by
the "Affiliated" church's doctrine? A doctrine you currently agree
with anyway? For most guys, it's a no brainer. You can retire to that little
Spirit-filled church...
And then you get a revelation about something, say.
The only prob is, it's five years later, and your loans
are maybe only half paid off because, well, just because;
you got a wife, had daughters, bought cars, etc., and this
revelation of yours is clear as the day, man, you just
know.
Only thing is, it goes against your Affiliated Doctrine.
Now, your choices are
deny the Holy Spirit,
or leave that church. The answer would appear self-evident,
but that is just not really fair, when you read into that
vastly abbreviated story the relationships, yours and your fam's,
the habits you have all settled into, etc.
So you try to, sorry, guys, stay on a fence.
You don't
want to be on a fence, prolly,
but there you are.
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