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The real answer and the truth...

The real answer by the book is be an Ordained Bishop...nothing more, nothing less.

And therein lies just one of the reasons why the COG has lost its position as a once spiritually strong body. I’ve heard the “I’m 3rd generation church of God”so many times I now automatically tune it out. Sorry, God is not impressed with your COG pedigree. Same with the requirements for having the right connections. So many of you great ministers have been denied positions that were God ordained all because you either didn’t meet the pedigree or connections requirement, or the position went to a friend of a friend of the AB. We can harp at the Millineals all day long, but they see right through this garbage and want nothing to do with it “Hell will be filled with people that didn’t cuss, didn’t drink, and may even have been baptized. Why? Because none of those things makes someone a Christian.”

Not too cynical are we?

I know you’re asking in terms of qualifications, but I would love to see an AB be a true pastor to the pastors under his “rule”. If most of us pastored our churches like an average AB supposedly pastors us, we would be looking for a job.

ABs are appointed. They remain by confidence vote. I suppose that is a biblical model since ever since I can remember I was told that voting pastors in churches was not biblical. Thing is, we now vote pastors in, for the most part. So, we are doing things that are not biblical, on a local level. Things changed because bigger churches threatened to pull out of the Church of God. For the sake of finances they changed. Our current AB system is a holdover from the old system of appointments because it is more biblical I suppose. It is a system, though. I don't think it is a very good system and if you asked most local pastors, in confidence of course, I believe they would agree.

To put into the mix for men coming off the field

The fist thing a good Overseer should have is a decent golf game followed by a haircut worth talking about.Next is a good camp meeting dialect and a wife that can cook fried chicken.

Re: The real answer and the truth...

What a bunch of garbage in this thread! Thank you, 2ndgeneration, for speaking up. Exactly why I don't even click on a lot of threads here. Garbage and innuendo.. More of Him...less of me.twitter.com/camiracle77www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=691241499&ref=name