So the seeker sensitive people must have it right. Bring them in at let the clergy who have been entrusted with the gospel share it with them.
   
  Of course all Christian have been entrust with the Gospel by the Holy Spirit! For it wasn't by our own power we believed. Entrusted:  pisteuo:  "to think to be true, to be persuaded of, to credit, place confidence in"  It is a false belief to say that only the elders have been entrusted with the Gospel since as true believers we have all placed our confidence in the Gospel of Christ.
   
  Harry

Chad Richard Bresson <breusswane@...> wrote:
  >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 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 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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