Coffee sez:
Preacher as God: In the church that I grew up in, the preacher mandated unquestioning obedience to himself. If he felt God telling him to say something, he'd say it and "we" were to obey it. Period.
We came across that at the last A/G church that we went to- and that's the reason we left. The pastor demanded that anyone teaching Sunday school, working with Royal Rangers, Missionettes, etc had to sign a loyalty oath. We refused to do it and left. We though it was just that particular church, until the next one did the same thing.

Backslidden wrote:
blackdog wrote:
I hate to, but I have to ask? Sarah Palin = Reincarnation of Deborah or Esther?

  
Uh...Sapphira?
Oooh! Ow!!!

People like her remind me ever so much of the passage where religious people say "We did this, that, and the other thing in Your Name" and God says "I never knew you." I think there's a lot of people who are in for a rude surprise!