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Originally Posted by Evangelical
In denominations, pastor is a secure, ongoing, fully time permanent position.
In the recovery they are not like that. If a church decides to pay the elder that is up to them, but usually it is only full time workers on campuses. It is usually for a period of time, not guaranteed to be until retirement.
The paying of the worker is not the issue, it is the position of pastor that is the issue - paying of a person to support their permanent position which is not found in scripture - in the early church, pastors did not run churches. Elder is not a full time permanent vocation like a pastor or priest.
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Evan G you are constantly looking for differences where there is none, except in the gross generalizations of your mind.
What's the difference between some worker, reporting back to headquarters, "running the church," and a pastor? Not much at all.
Most churches, however, get to "approve" of new pastors, whereas in the LC's, the elders and local saints have no choice. When HQ's sends a new worker "boss" to town, the church is not entitled to any opinion.
I know, because that's exactly what happened to my LC. After watching this kid operate, I had enough, and decided to leave. Nothing "local" there. That system became worse than all the denominations they regularly judged.