>Are we not all ministers of the gospel?

No.  Witnesses to the gospel?  Yes.  Entrusted with the gospel?  No.

Like it or not, the scriptures *do* reflect differences in function,
responsibility, and relationship.  The text does reflect hierarchy.  It's
why some are *qualified* and some are not. Those qualifications reflect
hierarchy of relationship to the entrustment.

--
Pastor Chad Richard Bresson
Clearcreek Chapel
Springboro, OH
http://breusswane.blogspot.com

On 2/27/06, H Dorrington <hjdinfl@...> wrote:
>
> I think both Terry and Moe make excellent points.  One of the problems
> with the church today is that we pay someone else to do everything for us.
> We pay the elders to do the teaching and we pay the missionaries to do the
> witnessing and we then believe that we are doing all we can for the Lord and
> we are proud of it.  Are we not all ministers of the gospel?
>
> Harry
>
> Terry Rayburn <terryrayburn@...> wrote:
> Don't beat around the bush, Moe, what do you
> really think? :)
>
> Seriously, I would consider banning women from
> reading the Bible in a church assembly as
> equivalent to the Pharisees under the Old Covenant
> outlawing a needle carried in a lady's apron.
>
> They were expressing an actual God-given scriptural principle
> of that time and place, (namely, no work on the Sabbath),
> but they were going beyond the scripture to their own
> extra-biblical application of that principle.
>
> That Pharasaic principle was this: better to err on the side
> of extra-strict adherance than to even allow the *possibility*
> of a violation.
>
> Godly Pharisees (yes, there were such) did so out of a
> true reverance for the Lord, ungodly Pharisees, of whom
> there were many, did it out of pure self-righteousness.
>
> But even that Pharasaic principle was beyond
> scripture, and thus a sort of self-fulfilling principle.
>
> While still despising sin and loving the precepts of the
> Lord in our hearts, yet we need to avoid over-exegeting
> some passages.
>
> A good test sometimes is to ask the question, "Should
> someone be disciplined vis a vis Matt. 18, and put out
> of the assembly for unrepentedly doing that?"
>
> Terry Rayburn
>
> Moe Bergeron wrote:
> Now brethren, I suspect some of you are control freaks and are guilty of a
> Gentile system of rule. You would have only the "duly authorized"
> distributing the elements or bringing a word of encouragement,etc.,. The
> end
> result is a bunch of spectators sitting beneath your chief seats.
>
> I have said it before and I will say it again. Pastors emasculate more men
> than all of the women libbers out there.
>
> Retreating quickly,
> moe
>
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