Some KJV-only advocates in effect suggest that the KJV directs them into the human, non-scriptural KJV-only doctrine, which is false doctrine. In my opinion, they actually read their human KJV-only opinions into verses in the KJV that do not teach them.
Some KJV-only advocates may be somewhat misled or directed into a wrong doctrine of church government by the episcopal bias that is in it. Some KJV-only pastors seem to think that the KJV directs them to be lords over God's heritage as one-man rulers over a congregation.
KJV-only author Roy L. Branson wrote: “God commands the pastor to rule” (Dear Preacher, p. 108). Roy Branson declared: “The pastor is called the ruler of the church, Heb. 13:7, 17, and God’s program is directed through him. Moses is the original model and that model was not changed in the transition from the Old to the New Testament” (Most Christians, p. 106). Roy Branson asserted: “The pastor is God’s governor appointed to rule over the church” (Church Split, p. 114). Concerning the pastor, Roy Branson wrote: “Call him a dictator if you will, since God has given him nearly absolute authority” (p. 42).
Evangelist Hal Webb asserted: “The Bible gives pastoral office first place” and “The pastor is the head of the church family” (Fairhaven Fundamentalist, 1997, p. 9). Evangelist Kenny McComas asserted that “God intends for the rulership of the church to lie in the pastor” (God Given Pastoral Authority, p. 10). Kenny McComas declared: “Often by divine direction and not by choice, the pastor must become dictatorial” (p. 31). Would God actually contradict His word and divinely direct a pastor to act as a lord or master (1 Pet. 5:3, Matt. 23:10)?
KJV-only advocate Wally Beebe claimed that “the Scriptures teach us that the church is a body with one head, the pastor, and his head is Christ” (Church Bus News, Jan.-Mar., 1991, p. 16). Wally Beebe claimed that “obviously Paul was the head of the church of Corinth and head of many churches that he started and pastored. The Bible consistently talks about using a man but not a group of men as the leadership in a particular church” (Ibid.). Appealing to Hebrews 13:7, 17 while ignoring the plural pronouns, Wally Beebe asserted: “The pastor (one man) was to rule the church, not a board or group of elders” (Church Bus News, Jan.-March, 1989, p. 7). Wally Beebe claimed that one man “is head or senior pastor of the church” and that “this has always been accepted practice in Baptist churches” (p. 4). Wally Beebe declared: “I read in the Bible where one person is the head of the local New Testament church” (p. 10). Wally Beebe wrote: “In a sense, the pastor is not responsible to anyone but to the Lord” (Second Man, p. 37).
