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1 | Does my Pastor have to live in my state? | Heb 13:17 | mincc | 21607 | ||
It just so happenes that the Pastor who I listen to and admire is a National figure. He does not live in my state, so the only way I am able to here him is over the radio or the internet. I really do not believe there is a ministry in my area that will give me the teaching that I respect and love like I get from this well known preacher. Can I rightfully call this preacher my pastor? |
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2 | Does my Pastor have to live in my state? | Heb 13:17 | charis | 21608 | ||
Dear mincc, Blessings in Jesus' name! "Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with grief, for this would be unprofitable for you." Hebrews 13:17 NASB. I really find it hard to believe that a person that is not involved in your life is truly capable of watching over your soul. This would be akin to a recent president that "Feels your pain." :-) A *shepherd* should care for you in a real and immediate sense, not through rhetoric. A pastor is much more than a teacher, he is there! In Christ Jesus, charis |
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3 | Does my Pastor have to live in my state? | Heb 13:17 | Hank | 21695 | ||
Charis, I agree with your point about pastors, and offer as illustration a popular advertising slogan of a telephone company which says that a phone call is the next best thing to being there, and it may well be, but it is nevertheless not the same as being there. The New Testament always defines pastors as the shepherds of the local church. Paul was an evangelist who traveled from place to place establishing local churches, but a pastor of a given church in a given location he was not. I suppose Paul's example of going from place to place in a broad sweep of the area in which he worked is the closest New Testament example we could find that would even roughly compare to today's TV or Internet preacher...... My wife and I enjoy watching Adrian Rogers on TV and do so quite frequently. Now, Dr. Rogers is indeed the pastor of a large congregation of believers in Memphis, Tennessee. But my wife and I are not members of that congregation and Adrian Rogers, for all his good preaching, is not our pastor. Thus it would not be he to whom we would turn in time of need for pastoral counsel, but to the pastor of the local congregation to which we belong, our pastor, the pastor who is always there. --Hank | ||||||