So God if God chose leaders to teach and the empowered Church then chose deacons to serve the widows and orphans ...were did they deception come in do you think ?
The concept of leader as paraded by the church is not in scripture, nor is the notion of leading an assembly of the ekklesia from the front found in scripture.
It is all in scripture introducing the early days of the Church
No its not TJ. Its roots are traditions of man.
Eph4v11And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;Take note, God didn't just give pastors. Nor does it indicate that pastors stand at the front and conduct the service. Nor does it indicate that a church has only one pastor. The same is true for the other ministries a church is supposed to have in its midst, which the ascendency and control of the pastor has crushed.
A healthy church should have multiple pastors because his purpose is not to be in charge of the service. And for that matter, what's a "service", is that when they check the oil and brakes on my car?
A healthy church should have multiple apostles prophets pastors evangelists and teachers.
12For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:Would you look at that! The job of the pastor etc. is the perfection of the saints
for the work of the ministry!
ie. its the saints who should be doing the ministry.
If a pastor is standing year in year out preaching to the same sleepy bunch, year in year out, then he has evidently failed. If the congregation are still suckling at the tit of the pastor rather than chewing meat like adults, then they obviously have not been perfected, nor are they capable of ministering to anyone.
It is the Holy Spirit that is supposed to lead the assembly, working through the gifts of the spirit not a programme. It is the whole congregation that ministers the gifts of the spirit, one to another, not just the leader/s.
ie. the gathering of the saints is a grass roots ministry, not a top down ministry.