tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8886567613905490071.post8068111784369132217..comments2023-08-01T20:14:02.890-04:00Comments on Thunder Sounds: Leadership Gifts in the ChurchSLWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04260137021205685080noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8886567613905490071.post-4764755444201420742007-06-29T03:30:00.000-04:002007-06-29T03:30:00.000-04:00Abso-flippin-lutley!I just HATE being called Pasto...Abso-flippin-lutley!<BR/><BR/>I just HATE being called Pastor, and it being assumed that I have a pastoral gifting. Really! Maybe I do? I really don't know. But God hasn't confirmed it yet so what gives anybody else the right? And there's loads of other gifting bubbling around inside this particular jar of clay.<BR/><BR/>The leadership qualification is more about character and faithfulness than gifting. I may be flying in the face of convention but I don't even see any Biblical instruction that those with ministry gifts are to lead as elders - only to serve the church so that it is built up. Of course many who have a matured ministry gift have the character and faithfulness qualifications for eldership, but it doesn't follow that they have to be elders, and it doesn't follow that elders have to have a ministry gift.<BR/><BR/>To assume that anybody who is a "leader" or an "elder" is a "pastor" is just plain ridiculous to anybody whose read their Bible.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for writing on this!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com