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Where? Where are the verses then and as you do not know everyone on this board, your claim is totally without foundation. The end of Acts 4 says NOTHING about giving to a pastor.

I'll take this and the rest of your post as a comment to avoid acrimonious debate.

Whose Korah?

That sounds like a very good doctrinal statement to me.

I think that is another issue altogether. I was involved in a University Campus ministry. This particular one functioned as a ministry and a church. Prior to this ministry, no church was reaching out to the campus students. There were a couple of Christian groups on campus that never talked...

For what it is worth, I have been on every side of this discussion. One, I am a bookworm. I am never happier than when I am reading a good book. I have over 1,000 of them in my personal library and love reading them. Two. I have a theological degree from a bible college and I studied...

For me the clue is when Jesus said "I will build MY church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it." When Jesus is the head of the church, the gates of hell are not prevailing against it. Where man is head of the church the gates of hell are prevailing against it. Most churches...

I see no biblical justification for a senior pastor full stop.

Can you show me any scriptures where it says that the Holy Spirit will lead you into all truth through preachers? Can you show us any verses in scripture where it says we are to give money to the pastor? Where are "these" parts?

This is what I call muddled thinking and clutching at straws. First you say that Paul WASN'T a tentmaker and then you say he WAS a tentmaker and sometime down the line WAS a tentmaker. Now, if he wasn't a tentmaker, how could he be a tentmaker? Forgive me if I consider you unable to mount a...

Yes it it obvious that if he refused to live off the gospel, it definitely wasn't beer money. He had to do something as he said he would not live off the gospel. As he was a tentmaker by trade, logic would tell you that is what he did. Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible says that the single...

A good point. It made me think that if it is the truth that sets you free and truth can only come by the Holy Spirit and a church or individual does not believe that the Holy Spirit is active today as he was in the New Testament, then it stands to reason they are cutting themselves off from the...

If their are no more prophets, then it is logical that there are no more apostles, evangelists, pastors or teachers and that means the body of christ has come to unity in the faith which is strange seeing as we have 35,000 denominations. FYI, there are millions who follow secessionist teaching...

Chapter and verse please? It is a fallacy invented by religion that we need someone to bring us closer to God. I am a son of God, not a grandson. Therefore my relationship with God needs no mediator in between me and him. I can be as close as I want to be and I can be as far away as I want to...

I am led to believe that sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. So the prophecies I received from four different people at four different times at four different locations that all said the same are not from God?

I didn't put without being an autocrat in. You did. I asked where that was in scripture.

That is your take on it. It is not mine. If what Paul knew was sufficient, God would not have invested 13 years into his life if he knew what there was that he needed to know. I don't suppose for one moment that he threw away what he knew of the old covenant, but that would not have been...

That wasn't the question. The question was "Where does it say in the New Testament that a pastor can give sermons and officiate sacraments without being an autocrat" with the emphasis on the sermons and the sacraments.

More great stuff Prentice. I am becoming a real fan of yours. By the way, is that extra hand on your shoulder in your photo the reason you are so hand...some? Boom, boom. Or is it a case of many hands make light work? Enough of this levity as I might get a dressing down by the pharisees here...

In my opinion, this is the best post so far. According to the megachurch and millionaire church leaders criteria, Jesus and Paul were failures. Now, let us get down to the nitty gritty. I don't agree with paid pastors because they didn't exist in the NT Church, but if you insist on ignoring...