Teaching and Guiding by Example

Pastors are elders who guide by example and teach, they are not paid people and there is never only one man in a church who is the head.

The Bible teaches a plurality of leadership. All men in the church participate in the teaching and worship as led by the Holy Spirit. The one-man-paid pastor system is not Biblical.

1 Corinthians 14:26-31 "26 What is the outcome then, brothers and sisters? When you assemble, each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. All things are to be done for edification.

27 If anyone speaks in a tongue, it must be by two or at the most three, and each one in turn, and one is to interpret;

28 but if there is no interpreter, he is to keep silent in church; and have him speak to himself and to God.

29 Have two or three prophets speak, and have the others pass judgment.

30 But if a revelation is made to another who is seated, then the first one is to keep silent.

31 For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all may be exhorted;

32 and the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets; 33 for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace."

Everyone participates and the Holy Spirit is the One Who leads in the church gathering. There is no such thing as a one-man paid pastor, no one is paid, no one is above another.

This model God gave in His word of the first-century church is nearly extinct now in these days of apostasy. Those who hold to this model of the church gathering are mocked and rejected, this is just how brain-washed the cultural church has become. They do things contrary to what God commanded and glory in it as though it is Biblical.

We are living in the last days of apostasy, sin is defended, man-made ways of doing things are elevated above God's ways. In the apostate churches men are held up as the authority instead of the Holy Spirit. Men are consulted instead of the Holy Spirit and those who wish to return to God's model of the new testament church are mocked and rejected.

This is just another sign of the end of the age right before the rapture occurs.