His weaknesses or faults that resulted in the divorce can eventually affect the church too! The divorce demonstrates that the elder/pastor is disqualified from leading the church.
The goal is to seek repentance in a spirit of kindness. We need to pray both for the individual and for ourselves. We need to go not in anger but in humility desiring that our brother respond to the Lord in humility and confession. May God help us all when faced with making such decisions.
In God’s plan for the church there are overseers and deacons. But who is an overseer, elder and who is a deacon?
Patriarca: Se refiere al obispo que ejerce la Mando de una iglesia ortodoxa determinada, el que preside el Santo Sínodo de la misma y el representante de ella frente a otras iglesias, religiones y estados (es el equivalente al rango católico de papa).
Lleva la paterisa, el báculo pastoral del obispo rematado con un cruz rodeado por serpientes enfrentadas que simbolizan la prudencia y la sabiduría con que el obispo (en su función de pastor) debe dirigir a la feligresía a su cargo.
Jesus answered, “You would have no authority over Me, unless it had been given you from above; for this reason he who delivered Me to you has the greater sin.” John 19:11 (NASB)
Con el establecimiento de las parroquias, los obispos se liberaron de muchas de sus tareas originales y se dedicaron a asuntos this content más importantes de la diócesis y a su supervisión.
The passage says that if the elder does not stop sinning, he is to be rebuked in front of the congregation. At this point, it is implied that the elder is removed from office. Notice that the passage does not say this is the exclusive responsibility of the elders. But it is implied that elders are responsible for performing this action due to Hebrews 13:17.
Los obispos son miembros del Colegio episcopal —cuya inicio es el sumo pontífice— en virtud de la consagración sacramental y de la comunión jerárquica con la cabecera y demás miembros del colegio.
That is the meaning of “Do not receive an accusation against an elder except on the basis of two or three witnesses.”
A common accusation that some hurl at those who believe that action must be taken is that Jesus taught us to not judge others. But such comments miss the point of Jesus’ teaching. If they were correct, then no one would ever be removed from office. The church would have to allow disqualified elders to remain in office.
Any meeting should include the current elders and the elders who left. If the elders refuse to meet with congregants in one of the above scenarios, then the elders’ spiritual qualifications are in doubt and they should possibly step down from office. Additionally, if the pastor was the decision maker in refusing to meet with congregants, then the pastor is like Diotrephes (3 John 9-10). If the current leadership refuses, then the concerned members should feel the freedom to leave the church.
1 Timothy 5:19 requires that two or three individuals were witnesses to the same sin at the same time. This does not mean that one individual witnessed a sin one day, another person witnessed a sin on some another occasion, and maybe a third person witnessed another sin.
El solideo es el pequeño gorro que va sobre la inicio) o una cruz pectoral. Este y el fajín son distintos de los obispos y cardenales.