"Yes, I recognize it and listen to it, and I do what He says."
If you're unwilling to take correction or rebuke or instruction .. how do you expect GOD to use you ..??
It's just this .. if you're going to follow HIM - and HIS scripture says to "do good to them that despitefully use you" - then WHINING IN PUBLIC ABOUT EVERY LITTLE THING THE MAN DOES - IS NOT FOLLOWING GOD. It's following your little petty offence at what the Pastor supposedly did to you, or because he didn't agree with you.
We are called to serve our church leaders as though we were serving Jesus Himself. They're not perfect - and if we're expecting them to be .. then we're the ones who aren't dealing with reality.
My Pastor has done lots of things that I didn't necessarily agree with .. however, I learned to serve him anyway - as my commitment to Jesus - and somehow when those things didn't work out - my Pastor would end up doing what I thought should have been done in the first place. How did that happen ..?? I prayed and I stayed the course. GOD knew how to handle it.
It's not really public if he doesn't name names. Plus, I think it is hard to serve a church leader who tells you to scram.
WHAT A WONDERFUL EXAMPLE OF CHRISTIAN INTEGRITY, AUTHENTICITY AND FAITHFULNESS!
I knew there was tons I liked about you.
CONGRATULATIONS. You must have been through some brokenness to arrive at such saintliness, I'd bet, though.
LOL.
I am willing to take correction or rebuke, as long as it is from a Godly leader. I will not take it from a pastor who tells sexual stories from the pulpit.
If the 'rebuke' is correct, it's rebuke. If it's not correct, it's only accusations from the Enemy.
Do you have a verse for that?
Not if they are not following God's Word. Sorry, but that dog don't hunt!