Sorry , you cannot use Phil 3:8 as your defense here because the context is not correct.
Did actually Paul ever tell Peter any other person he disagreed with he was full of poo? yeah thought not.
DO you believe our our church leaders, teachers, preachers and elders can have one foot in darkness and one in the kingdom? If you give this a pass and think it is perfectly fine to have language like this from the pulpit, whats next?
Hiring Pastors that use profanity and then allow them to let:
Youth pastors and and their wives to show kids porn on theirs phones to help them stay pure?
And then justify it to their parents by saying, all kids have sex anyway, we just used porn to make a point!
The Young Adult singles Pastors wife to show her cleavage and legs and give the young single Adult women conferences on being sexy and showing their stuff to attract a Godly man?
Let pot be smoked on church property while the tokers work out their passive sanctification to stop their addictions.
Then have to ignore the couple snorting cocaine in the church restroom, because they give a lot of money, I mean a lot of money to the church.
Letting Adam and Steve to be on the platform and lead worship, because they are just so good at it, despite the fact they are engaging in homosexual sex? And the other worship team members are committing adultery and fornicating with each other.
Where does it stop? Where does the Bible teach us that our church leaders, teachers, preachers and elders have to lower themselves by acting like the world to be relevant enough to reach the world. Where does the Bible teach us that our church leaders, teachers, preachers and elders are to keep people in bondage to their sin, because there is no victory until then and not now and your just a work in progress like me? Where does it say that our church leaders, teachers, preachers and elders not show their people they can overcome their issues and be everything God says they are and called them to be?
The Bible says unequivocally that our our church leaders, teachers, preachers and elders should be called, validated, approved by God and then consecrated and separated from the flock.
You and the rest your tribe here think people in the world appreciate you being so uber cool and able to relate with them. They really don't, not the ones looking for the God that saves and gives them power to overcome and become who God wants them to be.
The only ones that relate to church leaders, teachers, preachers and elders that condone leaven in the lump are usually spiritual babes that have spiritual babies as leaders. I do not fault the people, I fault the leadership of the people. If you have a babe in Christ trying to learn how to manifest love and self control enough to not us profanity from the pulpit, he is not being transparent,relative, and an adorable work in progress like his sheep. He is also a babe attempting lead babes and is compared to a new convert, which Paul says should not be allowed to teach, be an elder or deacon {See 1 Tim 3} This type of church grows but only in terms of people and not spiritual maturity.
Eventually, a lot of people will get revelation about who they are and that they do not need to be of the world to reach the world. They will see that their leadership are not really being uber cool, relative or an adorable work in progress like they used to be. They begin to see that their leadership are not growing spiritually and either have no desire to, do not know how to or are in deception or spreading deception. They also begin to see that others around them fit the same patterns. The next time the uber grace filled cool cat pastor-teacher throws out an F-bomb to get their attention to make a point, they wake up and leave for better solid food and spiritual growth.
1 Cor 5:6-8
[SUP]6 [/SUP]Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough? [SUP]7 [/SUP]Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed. [SUP]8 [/SUP]Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
I have been called legalistic a lot in the last few years and came to understand it is because I make a stand that our church leaders, teachers, preachers and elders should be called, validated, approved by God and then consecrated and separated from the flock. And if they condone something as small as allowing profanity from the pulpit to make points, they have serious issues in their own lives and that of their churches. They are blinded by a false interpretation of grace, or worse are intentional in the desire to spread deception or are just a babe in Christ for decades, and this makes them think they have grown enough to shepherd.
Moses spent 40 years in the wilderness before he spent 40 years leading others in the wilderness and never used profanity to make a point.
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