Deacons can’t be divorced in conservative churches, for starters. I do not have a clue what you mean by board rooms nor do I find it relevant to howchurch leadership works. Baptist churches are run by their membership and are essentially elected. If a pastors wife is stupid enough to hold her own congregation in contempt in public then she must be accountable, unless you suggest she is a minor child or mentally defective. She would be much happier among episcopalians with their homosexual priestesses.
Mamzelle wrote:
“Deacons can’t be divorced in conservative churches, for starters.
—Deacons are not on topic, dear.
I do not have a clue what you mean by board rooms nor do I find it relevant to howchurch leadership works. Baptist churches are run by their membership and are essentially elected.
—You just answered it! First, “you have to be a member”. A lot of churches I have been in touch with, the ‘membership’ votes ‘you’ in, to become a ‘bona fide member’, otherwise, you are just one of the mmany sitting in a pew that ‘don’t count’. Next, these same churches’ ‘membership’ votes for who is to be on ‘the board of elders’, who really run the church, and who can hire and fire a pastor. (Which, by the way, I have always thought that being a pastor, was actually answering the call, and NOT beholding to a corporate board, i.e., the elders, who could pull your license).
These are board room ethics, and are copies of corporations, and also demonstrate that a church has a federal 503c on file, to become stamped as ‘legitimate’ by the federal government’s IRS.
If a pastors wife is stupid enough to hold her own congregation in contempt in public then she must be accountable, unless you suggest she is a minor child or mentally defective. She would be much happier among episcopalians with their homosexual priestesses.
A pastor’s wife, is no different than good ol’ Michelle Obama, and no one has to date tried to keep her silent, have they? “The wife comes as part of the package.”, or so they say.