Here is yet another “organization” gone off the rails. It is so easy to do when the organization becomes some “thing” rather than just a gathering of believers with elder believers watching over. There was no “membership” in the early gatherings, no central headquarters to “appoint” or “ordain” those who would toe a party line. There were simply those mature believers who taught, watched over, and got replaced (and asked to leave) when they deviated from the Gospel.
Very good points.
I hear many churchgoers demanding adherence to the Scriptures in the area of sexual perversion, but in other areas seem unconcerned about what God expects. They demand Hollywood accurately represent the story of Noah, and stick to the facts without substituting manmade ideas, but they won’t demand the same from the pulpit.
And so they get perverts in the pulpit - and then complain about it. But it’s as Hosea said: “like people, like priest”.