Help! Members disagree with new pastor!

[Salamander]

Originally posted by bjonson:
This is why every local church should have a plurality of elders instead of one pastor in charge.

Why? That would be unbiblical. If the pastor is sinning persistently the church would vote him out, not have a thing with multiple heads over the congregation.

 

[Salamander]

Originally posted by piaairline:
Praise the Lord for everyone who added to the discussion. I work closely with my pastor and I hold a position in the congregation that requires me to serve as a bridge between the pastor and others. That's why I know a lot more.

The new pastor emphasizes everything from spiritual growth, Bible study, prayer, and outreach. Correcting sin was necessary because we are getting nasty comments about our church being lenient on sinners. It's like house cleaning in progress. The former pastor was powerless in handling such difficult issues.

We are a pretty young church so no one is really qualified to be an elder, other than the pastor.

If I may speak from experience, this pastor needs people to stand with him. If he gets too "lofty" he will only run good people off and thereby get a reputation for being a tyrant and the outreach will not matter, I've already left the church that had such a pastor and knew he was wrong, his family not right, and then a month later he had an affair.

A pastor is just that, a pastor: one who leads a flock, maintains the sheepfold by leadership, not by lordship over God's heritage.

It is hard to speak without being there personally in your specific case. Learn to stand with the man of God, and for best advice, stop being the "go-between" you're liable to get shot in the crossfire.

Stand for what you know is Bible, it may hurt, but people will leave due to their carnality, but it is never advisable to separate the tares from the wheat because some of the wheat will get torn up with the tares. Let the lord take the tares out, teach the carnal to be spiritaul and mature, grow the babes into sound doctrine soldiers for Christ!

 

[EdSutton]

Originally posted by Salamander:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by bjonson:
This is why every local church should have a plurality of elders instead of one pastor in charge.

Why? That would be unbiblical. If the pastor is sinning persistently the church would vote him out, not have a thing with multiple heads over the congregation. </font>[/QUOTE]Uh, Sal- how do you figure multiple elders are unbiblical? Or was Paul mistaken in Acts 20? Or Peter when he spoke of "The elders who are among you"? Just curious!
Ed

 

[Salamander]

Originally posted by EdSutton:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Salamander:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by bjonson:
This is why every local church should have a plurality of elders instead of one pastor in charge.

Why? That would be unbiblical. If the pastor is sinning persistently the church would vote him out, not have a thing with multiple heads over the congregation. </font>[/QUOTE]Uh, Sal- how do you figure multiple elders are unbiblical? Or was Paul mistaken in Acts 20? Or Peter when he spoke of "The elders who are among you"? Just curious!
Ed </font>[/QUOTE]uh, Paul was over them as was Peter