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**”Biblical” = Dressing like a biker while he’s serving as a “pastor”**

Pastors are supposed to be ‘cool’ and ‘with it’ donchaknow. Leather is great and much tougher than skin, but without a helmet, doesn’t increase crash survival chances very much. Wearing a leather biker vest to an indoor bible study is just plain vanity (”look at me! I’m a biker!”). If Harley wants me to advertise for them, they need to at least give me the decals, patches, or apparel.

Jesus blended in with the crowd so well that he had to speak up, and tell the guards that it was he that they were looking for in the garden.

>> Leather is great and much tougher than skin, but without a helmet, doesn’t increase crash survival chances very much. Wearing a leather biker vest to an indoor bible study is just plain vanity (”look at me! I’m a biker!”) <<

I argued that exact point a few months ago when this goofball was fired, and it sadly seemed to be lost on some FReepers ("well, he and the other elders are motorcycle enthusiasts in real life, and they go out for a ride after the Sunday service, how do you expect him to dress??")

There's nothing wrong with a pastor having a passion for bike riding, and dressing accordingly when he's on the road (there's some prominent Orthodox bishop in Hungry -- I can't find the photo right now -- who looks far more badass than this James MacDonald character when he's in black leather on a bike)

There's nothing wrong with having a service specifically aimed AT biker culture, either, or inviting the pastor out to ride with them. Catholic priests do it fairly often to be "hip" and "with it". Here's a photo of one such event:

But there's something VERY bizarre about a pastor dressing like he's at a biker bar DURING a religious gathering, or in his formal role ministering as a representative of Christ. The priest and the the bishop I mentioned in the above paragraphs wouldn't be caught dead doing that indoors during a Sunday litugry. And IF they did, they'd probably get promptly suspended.

There's always been something fishy about this "James MacDonald" guy (and the latest claim that he "never met" most of the elders at HIS church who voted to remove him)