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Originally Posted by SirLance
That said, I'm just as competent as Pat Robertson, and really am not willing to take his word for it. Oh, I'll listen to what a minister says, but if I'm not familiar with that particular teaching, I'm going to go see for myself, and I think that true faith requires the effort to understand these things.
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Exactly. I was raised in this church, and although our preacher isn't the greatest "minister", in my opinion, I can still respect the message he brings every Sunday. But when/if he goes off on a tangent, like a couple of months ago, when he even got confused trying to make a point, I do not hesitate to call him out. I think we need to look at preachers as those who preach the word of God, but also we need to understand that each of us is responsibile for following that word and if we don't understand how it meets the teachings of the Bible, we need to ask how it does.