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NASB | Hebrews 13:17 ¶ 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. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Hebrews 13:17 ¶ Obey your [spiritual] leaders and submit to them [recognizing their authority over you], for they are keeping watch over your souls and continually guarding your spiritual welfare as those who will give an account [of their stewardship of you]. Let them do this with joy and not with grief and groans, for this would be of no benefit to you. |
Subject: Does my Pastor have to live in my state? |
Bible Note: 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 |