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Post by MsKayLander on Sept 24, 2007 11:19:52 GMT -5
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Post by anointed on Sept 24, 2007 11:30:00 GMT -5
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Post by krazeeboi on Sept 24, 2007 23:54:04 GMT -5
They were OK in the first clip, because they were only on the church grounds, not actually IN the church.  But I always despised the way the AME Church is run. I didn't like how they rotate pastors and you have to get to know a new pastor every few years. It makes no sense to me. As for the second clip, did the priest think the woman was going to melt because he threw holy water on her? ROFL! |
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Post by Nikkol on Sept 25, 2007 7:55:33 GMT -5
But I always despised the way the AME Church is run. I didn't like how they rotate pastors and you have to get to know a new pastor every few years. It makes no sense to me. It actually does make sense. Remember that one of the problems within the church is the "dependence" that people have on the pastor. With rotations, you never get that "dependent spirit", so to speak. Nowadays, if people know a pastor is not going to be there on a given Sunday, many decide that they won't come that day. And God forbid they find that their pastor is moving away or has died and now a new pastor is taking their place; some people actually use that as grounds to leave that church and find somewhere else. Then again, it also depends on what a person's assignment is and if one believes that you have to stay at a given church indefinitely or can you stay there for a certain amount of years and then God have you go somewhere else..... in other words, what most would coin as "church hopping" shouldn't be always deemed as a bad thing.... |
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Post by krazeeboi on Sept 28, 2007 4:54:02 GMT -5
But the thing was that there was never any sense of permanence. It always felt as though your pastor was a nomad. Plus, in the AME church I grew up in, the pastor pastored two churches in the circuit, so we only had church every other Sunday (that's changed now). How off is that? The answer to "overdependence" on the pastor isn't rotating them out; it's sound, biblical teaching on the role of pastors and adherence to a biblical model of ecclesiastical government.
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