Who is ACCOUNTABLE to God for your life?

Amazing statement.

Is not a Pastor responsible to his Flock for what he teaches them?

The problem with bad doctrine is that it begets bad doctrine.

 

RD2..., if I understand you correctly.

There are no less than 21 specific scriptural references to "individualism" within the Bible. One particular is as follows. "For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ." (1 Cor 12:12)

I really don't believe our Lord intended to have a following of robots. He created each and everyone of us as individuals with different emotions, needs, likes, dislikes, etc.

Personally, I've do not hold fast to the belief that one can lose their salvation. I see no need to speak in tongues. Or confess anything to a priest. Attending church from Friday evening until Saturday evening is a bummer, to me. Handling snakes? ...you must be kidding and the list of differing belief's and doctrines go on Ad Nauseam. What we are required to do is the emphasizing of God Grace through Jesus. The rest will take care of itself..., in my opinion.

If HolyJoe needs to believe that he can lose his salvation then so be it. Who am I to tell him otherwise? Or, if one believes they need to speak in tongues, again, who am I to tell him otherwise. Now, if one who holds differing belief's than I do asks then I will do my best to explain why I believe the way I do.

To jump up in another's space and accuse them of being "wrong" because of their personal opinion on any matter..., they are only making fools of themselves. If you have been given the gift of "shoveling snow" for the elderly in their neighborhood who am I to tell them they must move to Florida? That would be like me insinuating that because of where you live you must be a bleeding heart, cry baby liberal when in fact, you live where you do because you can't get out and go elsewhere.

Some people need to attend a church where they have speakers the size of VW's with people jumping pews and sashaying in the isle while I need a little bit more conservative atmosphere. In the end, the Lord will work it out.

During the tribulation days those who are left behind after the rapture due to the error of their ways will come to grips with their error(s) and take an appropriate stand. Where is this "multitude" of souls to come from if they aren't converted from the error of their ways during the era of grace?

I personally believe that anyone, anywhere, who finds it necessary to point an accusing finger at another declaring they are right and you are wrong is in need of some serious soul searching and otherwise not worth the time. You kick the dirt off your shoes and move on.

 

I don't know about you but I was judged at the cross... Jesus Christ took my sins and all the sins his Father gave him and nailed to his cross... I come from heaven not to do mine own will but the will of him that sent me, and this is the Fathers will that has sent me of all the Father has given me "I SHALL LOSE NOTHING"... but raise it up again at the last day!... You speak about an era of grace that was it!... Gathered around the Great White Throne is a mulitude no man can number of the redeemed of God as the sand of the sea and the stars of the sky... God looks through the work and sacrifice of his Son to us... The Sovereign Grace of Almighty God... Brother Glen

 

Certainly a pastor - or any teacher of the church - is responsible for what they teach. But they are not responsible for how it is received, if it is received at all. The hearers are responsible for themselves.

We also need to consider that this "teaching" does not just involve doctrine. In fact, I am convinced we learn more from Christian leaders by how they act than what they say. If you have a pastor who is highly critical of others and shows "grace" only when people fall in line, he or she is teaching evil.

That is why we need to be careful here on BaptistBoard. Each one of us is a leader/teacher of sorts. We need to have an eternal perspective on what we say and the attitudes we have toward others. Those attitudes are contagious.

I am at another crossroads as to whether or not I should remain here. There are some who bring out the worst in me, the attitudes that are still not fully transformed by the work of the Holy Spirit.

We need to be mindful of what we say and do.