Are self taught ministers doing the church a disservice?

I justsayin · Feb 2, 2017

JakeJ said: ↑

The term "the church" and "self taught ministers" are fairly adversarial. Few organized denominations will allow anyone but seminary graduates. However, most independent churches have self-taught ministers. Certain denominations of the Baptists allow self-taught ministers - though the term "self-taught" is 100% inaccurate in that context.

The concept of non-seminary and no organized religion licensing of ministers, is that ministers are the conduit by which God speaks to people among other purposes such as spiritual shepherd and teacher. In that sense, the claim is that only God can call someone to be his spokesperson and therefore all TRUE ordination only comes from God, not organized religion.
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Then that means all organized religion is a hot mess and heritics. Is that what you mean? It can't be both ways. And that sounds worse than what everyone originally thought.

Kode · Feb 2, 2017

JakeJ said: ↑

..... The concept of non-seminary and no organized religion licensing of ministers, is that ministers are the conduit by which God speaks to people among other purposes such as spiritual shepherd and teacher. In that sense, the claim is that only God can call someone to be his spokesperson and therefore all TRUE ordination only comes from God, not organized religion.
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LOL!!! I get a kick out of this sort of unprovable claim being backed up by an unprovable claim. My declaration of it being BS is as valid, or actually moreso, than the claim itself.

I justsayin · Feb 3, 2017

Interesting.

I justsayin · Feb 12, 2017

Kode said: ↑

LOL!!! I get a kick out of this sort of unprovable claim being backed up by an unprovable claim. My declaration of it being BS is as valid, or actually moreso, than the claim itself.
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Wow. Really?

I justsayin · Feb 13, 2017

HereWeGoAgain said: ↑

The age of self-taught internet experts is killing us.... literally.

Trump and his attack on the free press and 1st Amendment, are some of the fruits of this. Now you can believe whatever you want and there is some blogger or website to tell you, you're right.

And science! Oh my gosh. So many people who know so little but talk so much! Reading opinions about subjects of science can make a real scientist want to cry.
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