Mamzelle wrote:
“Deacons can’t be divorced in conservative churches, for starters.
—Deacons are not on topic, dear.
I do not have a clue what you mean by board rooms nor do I find it relevant to howchurch leadership works. Baptist churches are run by their membership and are essentially elected.
—You just answered it! First, “you have to be a member”. A lot of churches I have been in touch with, the ‘membership’ votes ‘you’ in, to become a ‘bona fide member’, otherwise, you are just one of the mmany sitting in a pew that ‘don’t count’. Next, these same churches’ ‘membership’ votes for who is to be on ‘the board of elders’, who really run the church, and who can hire and fire a pastor. (Which, by the way, I have always thought that being a pastor, was actually answering the call, and NOT beholding to a corporate board, i.e., the elders, who could pull your license).
These are board room ethics, and are copies of corporations, and also demonstrate that a church has a federal 503c on file, to become stamped as ‘legitimate’ by the federal government’s IRS.
If a pastors wife is stupid enough to hold her own congregation in contempt in public then she must be accountable, unless you suggest she is a minor child or mentally defective. She would be much happier among episcopalians with their homosexual priestesses.
A pastor’s wife, is no different than good ol’ Michelle Obama, and no one has to date tried to keep her silent, have they? “The wife comes as part of the package.”, or so they say.
Dear? And a deacon us just another name for pastor. Women were deacons in that time, too. Dear. And their husband’s behavior would have reflected on them. Dear. Leaders are expected to be particularly circumspect and if that doesn’t suit, then font expect to continue in leadership. Dear.
A number of us voted to fire her husband. Unfortunately, not enough.
But I have a question for you. Who should be in charge of the church? the pastor? How did he acquire his position? the hiring authority is also the firing authority.
Nobody pulled his license; nobody said he could never work again. Suppose that you were on a website, this one perhaps, and the powers that be decided to crack down on nonsense. Would they be wrong to kick you off? or me, or anyone else who was offending the basic thrust of this site?
Just curious as to what your answer is?