Pastor's are not Perfect !

Pastor's are not Perfect ! Please stop idolizing them.

Don't make your Pastor an Idol!
The modern day Pastors have real issues being "real". Simply look on TV and see that they control their image as well as any Presidential candidate. Our goal is not to be like our leader or even our Best Self Now. We are called to obey. Obey God's commends...

Striving for a type of perfection....
Matthew 23:27 - "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean.


But do they not realize they are vial and unworthy...
There best works are like rags to a perfect God?
Was Job not MORE devote than Abraham? Isaac? Noah? David? (Murders/Liars/Adulters/Coveters/Greedy)

Job 40: 3-5 - Then Job answered the Lord:

⁴ “I am unworthy—how can I reply to you?
    I put my hand over my mouth.
⁵ I spoke once, but I have no answer—
    twice, but I will say no more.”

 

God in turn lays it to Job and humbles him. If you have ever been through some stuff you know what being humbled by the Lord is like.


You are entrusted with stuff, nothing is YOURS!...
Dreams? God dreams. Stuff? God's stuff. Your Children? You Family?  The same goes with the Church (the people).

Genesis 1:28 - Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."

God can take it back at any time!

Pastors / teachers / leaders should be humbling themselves, not exalting themselves...
I want to hear my pastor was late. The pastor and his wife had an argument.
My pastor struggles with raising their kids. I want to hear that and I want to hear how they dealt with it. I want to hear how God dealt with it. I want to hear a man asking for forgiveness and leading others by his example. That's why you are a leader.



We all screw-up. My sin  is just as big as yours. The gap between God and me and God and them is no closer for either one of us. God meet us across that gap. Because it's infinite! Only he can!

A real church is an open church. A condemning church is one ripe for a fall.

Interesting Read:
http://www.gotquestions.org/Sadducees-Pharisees.html