I thaught we were commanded to select leaders for ourselves... you know, all that man who has only been married once lark.

James S. has a point in that Saint Paul advised the church to elect leaders that were of good standing. The bit James misquotes is that Paul advised that a good candidate should be the husband of one wife (bigamy was common at the time and the downfall of many otherwise Godly Kings of the OT).

However that is a truely thorny and hard question you have raised.

Jesus himself was the one who selected the twelve apostles and commanded them to go on to the end of the earth preaching and baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Perhaps you would like to read more on The Faith of our Fathers. We don't lose anything when we utilize that which God established to assist us on our earthly journey.

True and interesting though your comments are I fear I don't quite follow the thread of your thoughts.

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So many churches, so much money, so many people, and yet there is a man, a woman, and a child that will go hungry tonight. There is an alcoholic that is in need of some help. There are families that are in need of some financial help or else their power will be turned off, this same family is faced with some decisions, do we pay the electric bill or do we buy some groceries. There are young children that will be taking their first drink of alcohol tonight or continue to drink. Drugs are consuming our children, young girls are killing their unborn children by having abortions, parents are killing their children, children killing their parents, murder is at an all time high, our prisons are over crowded, and yet our churches in America are making more money than fortune 500 companies while our nation goes to HELL!
Church what happen here? You are the ones that were called to teach this nation about God and his ways, you are the ones that are to stand up to this world when a wrong is committed, you are the ones that are to lead this nation in these dark times, you are the ones that are to care for mankind when there is a problem, Today there should not be a single homeless person in this nation as long as there is a church.
You have allowed prayer to be removed from our children's schools, you have allowed the killing of unborn children in Abortion, you have allowed the Ten Commandments to be removed from public site, so tell me church, what exactly are you doing besides raising millions of dollars for your so called church, because you certainly are not standing up for God, and you certainly are not taking care of God's children, and in case you forgotten, we are all God's children not just those that attend your church.
We are to be One Nation under God and it is your responsibility to lead this Nation on the ways of God before it is too late.

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