Treating pastors the same way as members

[Classik]

I have realised that when a floor member does something bad...thing is, usually he or she gets rebuked and possibly openly. when it comes to our pastors or leaders it is a different approach. should they be openly rebuked too when they do something wrong?

 

[Willie T]

Why should either be "rebuked" rather than loved and restored?

 

[Classik]

Welcome back, WILLIE.
Well. You know I have quite witnessed people rebuked, not out of hatred for them - but instead out of love.

 

[Willie T]

Look up the word "rebuke" in the dictionary. Ain't much love there, at all.

 

[Knotical]

Without knowing the specifics behind the rebukes, really no-one should be publicly rebuked, per-se. Generally the approach should be that if someone in the church leadership notices one of the members (including a member of the leadership) has a sin issue they are not willingly repenting of they should be pulled aside and confronted. If they continue to be unrepentant things could escalate to possible excommunication, but that would be after much effort by the church leadership to guide the person back to the right path. Now when it comes to someone in the leadership, they would most likely be requested to step down from their role as part of the discipline actions being taken.

 

[Classik]

Look up the word "rebuke" in the dictionary. Ain't much love there, at all.

Does excommunication matte today? just asking.
I dont like getting people publicly rebuke - I dislike the sight of it. I just wanted opinions on this issue

 

[WIP]

From Matthew 18 NKJV
15 “Moreover if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother. 16 But if he will not hear, take with you one or two more, that ‘by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.’17 And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. But if he refuses even to hear the church, let him be to you like a heathen and a tax collector.


From 1 Timothy 5 NKJV
17 Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and doctrine. 18 For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain,” and, “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”19 Do not receive an accusation against an elder except from two or three witnesses. 20 Those who are sinning rebuke in the presence of all, that the rest also may fear.

 

[Not_Now.Soon]

It should be private, at least at first, like the verses WIP posted. But also do it for their sakes. Sometimes we all need help to be better then we are, and that's one of the benefits of being in a church. Not only do you hear sermons to lead and teach you, but your apart of a community to strengthen you.