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Originally Posted by notofworks
I 100%, absolutely agree and I can't imagine that anyone would disagree. But here's the question...what do we do when the order is violated? Does it give the death sentence for ministry?
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I think that to effectively discuss that, you'd have to get into the whole church setup. As it is, and as it was intended. As Aquila mentioned, you have the 'priesthood of all believers' to sort out, and then how leadership was really intended to operate... elders, deacons, etc. And what the qualifications are for those positions.
Our setup is not perfectly biblical now, anyway, so our standards for 'ministry' have been adjusted to work with the way we do things.
So, how to biblically deal with 'failure' in 'the ministry' is a fairly complicated subject.