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Originally Posted by Evangelical
Couldn't your description apply to any church on a Sunday?
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No. Shepherds are accountable. They don't get carte blanche. Only God is always right. The rest of us, all of us, are subject to the flock. Otherwise mutuality is irreparably harmed.
The other thing you must remember is that if a pastor or shepherd begins to abuse the sheep, they can leave. The so-called revelation of the local ground was an end run on that. Now we were "caught for the local church". And lo and behold the abuse, and the merchandise of ministry, begins anon. Fealty is extracted, and out comes the lash.