Lin

“Help!!!!

Can anyone help me.

Does anyone know, or think they know, or even disagree with,
what I’ve been trying to say about elders/leaders/pastors?

I believe it is a very important part of what is being said here about abuse and those here who have suffered abuse. All? I have.

There is no excuse for abuse.
Physical, domestic, emotional, or spiritual abuse.

It stinketh!!!

Please help, I ain’t been talken good american.”

Amos, I get you. It has been my contention all along that if folks understand that the NT teaches ‘servant’ instead of ‘leader/authority’ most of these problems would go away.

Having what some think is ‘authority’ or leadership over others is a huge sin trap. We see it played out every day in churches all over the place. The problem, as I see it, is that there are so few real ‘elders’ that no one knows what a real one would be like. So, they think the ones with the titles are elders/pastors, etc. I would think we would need to go back to Matthew 5 to see what a real elder would look like. What I call the salt elements.