I went to a church yesterday to take someone who wished to go and I observed some of the deception of pastor led churches . The deception is that the pastor themselves only wants or thinks they want freedom for the congregation .
In a secret unexpressed codependency contract(checkout Don Franscisco song about Uncle Sid) the congregation agree to 'push the pastor up the mountain while they remain below .'
It reveals itself in the praise as if there is an invisible membrane beyond which the congregation won't go.
It is very real the phrase ' Behold I stand at the door and knock '. Jesus really does.
The answer isn't to remove a pastor and just have what people call elders like Quakers . That just leads to mushiness . Why ?
Because they aren't thirdlevel third stage of growth people either , as in 1 John 2.
David's mighty men had already done things .
In psalm 84 there is a sequence....from blessed is the man whose strength is in Thee....up to when they are revealed before God in Zion .
We can't fake ecclesia . We have either got zöe life or we haven't . If we haven't we don't panic we just know we have to fall like grain into the ground a bit more and let God raise us a fruit bearing plant .
Currently ministry training talks about a minister living a good moral life outside , a bit like the apostolic instructions from Peter, James and Paul.
But Peter ,James and Paul also twinned that with spiritual phrases like Morning Star , let him ask for wisdom , and Romans teachings . These guys had the stuff . Seminaries and current churches are highly questionable .
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