If anyone is still depending on teachers to guide them after many years of being a believer, then they are still spiritual babes.
Hebrews 5:12-14
12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the actual words of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food. 13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unacquainted with the word of righteousness, for he is an infant. 14 But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to distinguish between good and evil."
We are not to depend on teachers all of our lives as believers. We are to enjoy them, listen while evaluating what they say, and gleaning truth but never trust in them the way we should be trusting in the Holy Spirit. All of us have the Holy Spirit Who leads us all into truth if we want it. No man could ever take the place of the Holy Spirit.
If anyone believes their pastor-teacher is the ultimate authority then they have an idol.
Acts 17:11-12 " 11 Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true. 12 As a result, many of them believed, along with quite a few prominent Greek women and men.…"
The apostle Paul was inspired by God to write Scripture and yet the Bereans sought God and His Word to make sure he was telling the truth. We all need to be Bereans.
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