When anyone elevates their pastor as the authority over them, then they have an idol. Christ is the only authority over the born again believer.
Leaders in the church are helpers, servers to remind us of God's Words, they have no authority to dictate for Christ.
Leaders in the church lead by example and teaching, not mandates or allegiance to them.
1 Peter 5:2-3 "…2Be shepherds of God’s flock that is among you, watching over them not out of compulsion, but because it is God’s will; not out of greed, but out of eagerness; 3not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock. "
1 Timothy 2:5 "5 For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,"
If anyone is confessing to or obeying a priest they are placing that priest in the roll of Christ, he is an idol. Stop placing men in the roll that only belongs to Christ.
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