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Originally Posted by Cassidy
If you believe the authority has been given to a certain minister then give yourself to that ministry.
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Where does the Bible issue this principle? Sorry, I don't see it. Nowhere does the Bible expect us to give ourselves to a particular ministry. I'm not "giving myself" to anything but God. If a minister's words witness with my spirit and my understanding of the truth, I take them. But that doesn't mean all his teachings will. What he says today might be great, but he might fall off a cliff tomorrow. Sorry, I'm not going over the cliff with him because of some misplaced idea that I have to "give myself" to some ministry.
Cassidy's priniciple here implies you take everything the minister says without question. Again, where does the Bible teach this? Nowhere.
Cassidy, if this is what LCers believe then it explains they mindless way they swallow things that make absolutely no sense. You think God wants you to "give yourself" to some ministry. The question is, where did you get a cockamamie idea like that? Oh, I know. The minister in question told you. Now you've come full circle. He has complete control over you because you think he has authority and has told you that if you think he has authority you have to give yourself to him.
Yeah, I get it. Explains a lot. Sort of.