To: Bismark
Funny, in first Timothy "great speaker" is not mentioned as a qualification for being a Pastor......
Qualifications for Pastor from 1 Timothy 3...
THE SAYING is true and irrefutable: If any man [eagerly] seeks the office of bishop (superintendent, overseer), he desires an excellent task (work).
Now a bishop (superintendent, overseer) must give no grounds for accusation but must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, circumspect and temperate and self-controlled; [he must be] sensible and well behaved and dignified and lead an orderly (disciplined) life; [he must be] hospitable [showing love for and being a friend to the believers, especially strangers or foreigners, and be] a capable and qualified teacher,
Not given to wine, not combative but gentle and considerate, not quarrelsome but forbearing and peaceable, and not a lover of money [insatiable for wealth and ready to obtain it by questionable means].
He must rule his own household well, keeping his children under control, with true dignity, commanding their respect in every way and keeping them respectful.
For if a man does not know how to rule his own household, how is he to take care of the church of God?
He must not be a new convert, or he may [develop a beclouded and stupid state of mind] as the result of pride [be blinded by conceit, and] fall into the condemnation that the devil [once] did.(1)
Furthermore, he must have a good reputation and be well thought of by those outside [the church], lest he become involved in slander and incur reproach and fall into the devil's trap.
To: I still care
mega-meag-dittoes. They cannot ignore the "Blueprint" in God's Word and expect God to bless. This pseudo-preacher violates multiple elements of the 1 Timothy 3 list of qualifications, snubs her nose at them is more precise. And the congregation that voted her in has done the same thing. The blueprint does not seem to be a list of suggestions; qualities "nice-to-have" if possible.
The quotations of other Scriptures out-of-context is further evidence that this church will soon have "Ichabod" written over it's doors.
They will probably learn soon that ideas have consequences.
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