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FLRon

New pastoral appointments

Acts-celerater Posts: 771 **1/7/24 9:23 am**

I haven’t been in a church that had a pastoral change in a good while. Do ministers still “try out” or is it more a cut and dried formality where the AB puts in who he wants regardless of the congregations preference?
I know how it used to work and I also know how the congregation’s choice wasn’t always honored. Just curious if the organization has dispensed with the try outs and voting.
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roughridercog

It depends upon which church and which AB

Acts Mod Posts: 25306 **1/7/24 5:25 pm**

It differs for each situation.
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Cojak

Re: It depends upon which church and which AB

01000001 01100011 01110100 01110011 Posts: 24277 **1/7/24 7:37 pm**

Aaron Scott

In recent years, except in odd cases...

Hon. Dr. in Acts-celeratology Posts: 6032 **1/8/24 12:24 pm**

It has often been to appoint those whom the church chose. Why? Well, for one thing, the burden is now on the church. If they start acting up immediately, the overseer can come in and say, "OK, now we do it MY way."

If all goes well, well, what's not to like for the overseer? He looks good, the church is performing well, etc.

If he forces the issue, it makes things more likely to go downhill, I would think (unless he has a clear word from the Lord, which is likely no more than 5-10% of cases, if that).

HOWEVER, what the overseer can do is find a medium, and that is to provide a number of candidates--any of which he would be happy to place at a particular church (maybe because he needs to, owes someone, or has been approached by an acceptable pastor about a change, etc.), then give the church the opportunity to choose whom they would like to have.

This gives the church some freedom of choice, but not unlimited choice. For the most part, I would think that an overseer would exclude anyone who truly felt was unfit for the position, no matter how strongly the church protested. Of course, some would let the church find out for themselves.

FLRon

Re: It depends upon which church and which AB

Acts-celerater Posts: 771 **1/8/24 12:46 pm**

Cojak

Re: It depends upon which church and which AB

01000001 01100011 01110100 01110011 Posts: 24277 **1/8/24 8:11 pm**