Featured Voting on a Pastor

I voted "other" because if he's still candiDATING(??) for a pastoral slot, I'd assume that he isn't necessarily a MEMBER of that church, but then I've been known to be wrong before....A few years back I favored the Philadelphia Eagles to win Super Bowl XLIX in 2018 over the Pats, silly me!! Actually, I don't know if there's any particular age that is inherently more scriptural a choice for church's pastor. It doesn't clearly state just how elder an elder MUST be, & it appears as though Timothy was a relatively young man (at least for that time period). I don't see where the OT requirement for priests being 30 is a hard & fast rule for the NT era. Seems to me, that a man's spiritual maturity needs to be taken into consideration more so than his chronologic age. I've seen teenaged boys sometimes behave more "spiritual" than some old timers (like me...75 YO on 5/9/2021!!). Was Methuselah a priest? Boy, 969 years!!!! I wonder if he had a beard?? There I go again...."Beards are OF THE DEVIL !!!" I guess old C.H. Spurgeon would never make the cut!! (But he did smoke cigars...maybe that outta cut 'em SOME slack!!) And what if the proposed pastoral candidate voted Dumb-o-crat?? Should THAT be held against him?? Seriously though, in some churches, Jesus Himself probably wouldn't be selected....First Baptist Church of Laodicea....Guess whoever pastored there SURELY had a lot of barf bags!! How DID they rig them up anyway? Did someone throw a rock at something and, presto!!, the bag'd magically fall down I guess. Enough nonsense. Oh yes, you DO know that old man Methuselah (969 YO) died before his father died??

 

By that logic, he lacks the maturity to be a church member.

 

Didn't the US of A Army program NOT to think, but to obey one's elders?? Your recruiter.....was he/she/IT someone that Albany NY made certifiable??

 

Salty,
Is the question about voting on a pastor or becoming a pastor? I took the question to be about voting.

 

Minimum age? Leftists are trying to make that 15 nationally, I believe.

 

Salty, I agree that 10 Years Old is too young of an age for voting on a pastor, but, if 10 YO IS in the church's Constitution, then so be it. IOW according to the Constitution, a 10 YOU CAN vote for a pastor. My question is this: How did voting for a pastor, IN FACT, voting on ANY THING get to be in the Constitution in the first place? I've heard of some church's being run by some people who merely wanted to run the church THEIR OWN WAY, that is, if anything in their interpretation (Which usually was a WRONG interpretation!), NNE SHALL PREACH ON IT..END OF DISCUSSION!! I suppose that a church like that would be prone to having PEOPLE determining what can be preached instead of God's Holy Spirit. IMHO, I'd steer clear of a church that's run like that.

 

Only in pastor-controlled churches. In churches that are not dominated by a pastor, there are trustees and other legal representatives, while the pastoral staff are agents of the congregation.

 

Fair enough. Churches run things according to the way that works for them. Thanks for the insight.

 

Should we really be voting?
What about the Urim and the Thummim (Ezra 2:63) or casting lots (Nehemiah 10:34, Acts of the Apostles 1:26)?

 

According to Acts of the Apostles 14:23 it was by a vote.
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