Stop molesting children. That will get people to start trusting pastors.
this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2023
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Stop valuing growth and looking good over doing the necessary, but good things. Don't get the pastor that puts butts in seats. Get the pastor that is a good person first and foremost.
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— 6 if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife,[a] and his children are believers[b] and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination. 7 For an overseer,[c] 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, 8 but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined. 9 He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound[d] doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it.
Don't get personalities. Get good people.
We need to have discernment so that we trust those who are trustworthy and don't trust those who are not. Otherwise is cultic.