Lol. Being a good husband and father ISN'T the same at all as being a good priest, vicar or minister. Success at one isn't a guarantee for success at the other.
A pastoral flock is NOT comprised of a wife and children. The flock is comprised of children and adults who are looking for spiritual guidance, not parenting or being a husband.
VERY different skills sets.
That's true...But failing at the first one is a fair indication that you may fail at the second one...
And practical guidance as well as spiritual...Like Paul said, if you can't rule your own house, how are you going to rule God's??? God says 'prove it, first'...
cm:Lol. Being a good husband and father ISN'T the same at all as being a good priest, vicar or minister. Success at one isn't a guarantee for success at the other.
A pastoral flock is NOT comprised of a wife and children. The flock is comprised of children and adults who are looking for spiritual guidance, not parenting or being a husband.
VERY different skills sets.
You're laughing at Scripture? Really?
Iscool did not make that up.
Take it up with God who says.....
1 Timothy 3:1-5 The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God's church?
The Holy Spirit does not see the distinction that the Catholic church sees (or rather makes).