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Originally Posted by zeek
Here's some doublespeak for ya. We are all just brothers and sisters. The clergy-laity system is part of poor poor Christianity. It ain't happening in the local churches. It just happens that the "saints" are providing a stipend, paying the rent and maintaining the homes of some of the "brothers" who give messages (read sermons), fellowship with the "saints" (read counsel them) and make the important decisions. In other words, some of the Brothers were clergy in everything but name.
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Yep. That is classic double-speak.
"We don't have clergy. We just have full-timers."
"We don't have clergy. We just have leadership."