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10-03-2012, 01:35 PM
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Re: Prominent Memphis Area Pastor Resigns
Would rather have my daughter be my secretary then another woman, no room for accusations.
Many smaller churches run the same way, many out of necessity.
Larger churches..... guess their business.
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10-03-2012, 01:43 PM
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Re: Prominent Memphis Area Pastor Resigns
I'm not so sure the Bible is against families working together. Look at the priesthood in the Old Testament...talk about "nepotism."
Family members are often more dependable and more trusted. For those reasons, they can be preferable over someone who is even more qualified. I agree that it can be done badly, but it can also work well. There are plenty of churches that have non-family members in leadership and their leadership structure is no better. It really depends on the character of the senior pastor[s] or elders and how they handle the structure as a whole.
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10-03-2012, 01:46 PM
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Re: Prominent Memphis Area Pastor Resigns
we are all the priesthood now so that is a poor comparison.
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10-03-2012, 01:48 PM
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Re: Prominent Memphis Area Pastor Resigns
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we are all the priesthood now so that is a poor comparison.
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If that is true, and we are all on equal ground, then the reverse could be stated: family members shouldn't be frozen out of church leadership simply because they are related by blood.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
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10-03-2012, 01:48 PM
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Re: Prominent Memphis Area Pastor Resigns
Of course, its all always the will of God son or son in law takes over church when fathers done.
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10-03-2012, 01:49 PM
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Re: Prominent Memphis Area Pastor Resigns
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If that is true, and we are all on equal ground, then the reverse could be stated: family members shouldn't be frozen out of church leadership simply because they are related by blood.
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maybe have a rotation? I knew of church that asst pastor was rotated.
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10-03-2012, 01:50 PM
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Re: Prominent Memphis Area Pastor Resigns
Not saying family member cant be used, but obvious when family runned.
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10-03-2012, 01:50 PM
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Re: Prominent Memphis Area Pastor Resigns
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Of course, its all always the will of God son or son in law takes over church when fathers done.
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Could be, you jealous?
If you don't like it you could always leave and find another church...
Why should it not be that way if the church agrees?
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10-03-2012, 01:51 PM
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Re: Prominent Memphis Area Pastor Resigns
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maybe have a rotation? I knew of church that ass pastor was rotated.
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That's the problem, too many ass pastors! 
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10-03-2012, 01:57 PM
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Re: Prominent Memphis Area Pastor Resigns
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Could be, you jealous?
If you don't like it you could always leave and find another church...
Why should it not be that way if the church agrees?
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There may be instances where the son or son in law is the right person to take over a church but from my observation a high percentage of the time it is the pastor's will, not God's.
The person taking over a church should be the absolute best person for the job. Not a person who gets it because he is marginally ok for the job but whose main qualificcation is being a blood relative or a relative by marriage to the current pastor.
The harsh reality is that more times than not the succession plan is based on ego, greed, and control rather than what is best for the church.
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"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
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