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Old 12-15-2008, 02:33 PM
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Exclamation Re: How close should a pastor get to the members?

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Originally Posted by MissBrattified View Post
Christ is The Shepherd, but there is a reference to the church being the "flock", and those who are their "overseers."

Acts 20:28 "Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood."

I Peter 5:1 The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
I Peter 5:2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
I Peter 5:3 Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.
I Peter 5:4 And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.

The inference here seems to be that elders are like under-shepherds, (to Christ), caring for the flock, until He returns/appears.
Overseer is NOT the Shepherd. He/she is an underling and not the chief shepherd. FEED the flock is their job. Preach, teach, exhort...but NOT boss, manipulate, control, or command!.

It appears that many use these scriptures to be their private interpretation that the pastor is somehow in the stead of Christ [as does Catholicism has it's POPES/priests], but as it does not appear anywhere in the BIble to say the Pastor is the Shepherd!

Blessings, Rhoni
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