The one man leadership concept in which the "Pastor" is a title or position is not Biblical and sought after by those who love to control others. In a Biblical model of the church gathering there is a plurality of elders, not just one man preaches they all do. No one man dictates church matters the elders lead by their example and by teaching, they are not rulers over but leaders of .
The church gatherings have been perverted because the unbiblical nature of the leadership and the wrong teachings that are in seminaries. The worst way for a man of God to learn is through a seminary where they are taught what to believe rather than Who to seek, that is Christ.
John 16:12-14 "
…12 I still have much to tell you, but you cannot yet bear to hear it. 13 However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come. 14 He will glorify Me by taking from what is Mine and disclosing it to you.…"
Those who are led by Christ to be a leader in the eldership will be led by Christ and not any man. The Holy Spirit takes center stage always and in everything.
When we obey the Bible we avert many problems. Most churches today violate more scripture than they obey and the people who attend them are not reading their Bibles so they just follow the man in the pulpit instead of Christ. By the way, I see no pulpit mentioned in the Bible. This is a class system ritual that came from the Catholic church. The one man leadership model comes straight out of the Catholic church system from Luther and Calvin when they left the Catholic church they took with them many of their ritual church systems.
Acts 14:23
"And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed."
Titus 1:6-9
"If anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination. For an overseer, as God's steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain, but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined. He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it."
Titus 1:5
"This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you—"
1 Timothy 5:17
"Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching."
1 Peter 5:1-4
"So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly; not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory."
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