PASTORS RANKED LOWER THAN COLLEGE TEACHERS!

November 2012: Please Tell Me How You Would Rate the Honesty and Ethical Standards of People in These Different Fields

“Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach… 1 Timothy 3:2 (ESV)

The word for overseer above, in the original language of the New Testament, translates into elder. Every pastor is an elder of his church and the qualifications of this position are, without question, directly from the Mind and Mouth of God. He spoke it and we had better believe it. So what part of that don’t we get?Why are pastors…and the rest of “clergy” listed by Americans lower than College Teachers, who are corrupting our young people with pluralism, evolution and alternate lifestyle glorification – thereby minimizing and even pronouncing hatred of the Word of God? Why? Why are only 52% of Americans seeing American pastors/clergy as being men of integrity, honesty and NOT 100% or close to it

 

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Then let us no more criticize and blame and pass judgment on one another, but rather decide and endeavor never to put a stumbling block or an obstacle or a hindrance in the way of a brother….Romans 14:13 AMP

Can you really turn a stumbling block into a stepping stone?

This next verse in our series mentions BOTH A Stumbling Block and A Hindrance. We all know what a stumbling block is – well, it’s something we trip over and sometimes, in embarassment, almost fall over! The next word, Hindrance, is particularly important as the ORIGINAL word for it is “Scandalon”. If this looks familiar – it is!

The word Scandal comes from it! What the Apostle sent by Christ is relaying is, in this life, people are going to try to trip us up! Literally, morally, spiritually and otherwise, they are going to try to bring us down! An immature believer is just that – immature. At some point in our Journey with Jesus, we were all immature.

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