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Pretty close, if not exactly right. And I've seen entire churches succumbing as a body.

 

And how would the elders know, if they are not involved in Bible study? Does the pastor tell them? The point is that there must be men involved in Bible study, not just the pastor.

And there must be more than just the pastor and the elders involved in Bible study, or else there will never be more pastors or elders. Are you training everyone in the assembly to be an elder and a pastor?

And you are also describing Bible study apart from the assembly, namely in the family. Are the elders and pastor there for that? I’m not knocking your strategy, just pointing out that in practice it is far different than “just the pastor teaching.”

 

13. Why is it that Primitive Baptists do not have Sunday Schools?

• Answer: This ties in very closely with the previous question. The Lord put gifts in the church, and so the church has no more right to appoint someone to teach than they do to call a man to preach. We believe that "pastors and teachers" are one office. Children ought to be brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord (Eph. 6: 4), but this is the responsibility of the parents in the home. The church cannot possibly do for a child in one hour a week what his parents should have been doing all week long. The Sunday School is another of man's inventions which is generally used as a "soul-saving" agency But it must be emphasized that Jesus the Saviour is the only soul winner and that man never has been able to do that work (Heb. 8 :11). Furthermore, we are taught that women are to keep silence in the churches (1 Cor. 14: 34), and this is ignored in most Sunday Schools and Bible Schools. The church should be taught by the pastor, who is to be a God-called man and who must be apt to teach even before being recognized by the church as an elder (1 Tim. 3: 2).

 

Pastors are leaders. Their job is to teach their flock to do the work of our Lord.
My churches motto is Equip, Send, Serve.
Pastors that do all the work, that lead every meeting, that monopolize the position of leadership are not doing their job. They are doing the job of a tyrant.
The Great Commission was to make disciples. Pastor should be working to put themselves out of their job by equipping others to grow into service.

1 Tim 3 states a qualification for elder is “able/apt to teach”. How might one know if another qualifies for the position if the is no opportunity to teach others?

Rob

 

My concern about this answer is that there is some confusion between what a church really is. The answer seems to be confusing the word church with a structure, a building. The church is a people, a congregation, a group of believers. “Wherever 2 or 3 gather together...”

Rob

 

I fail to see how they are tyrants Lol