Johnnie_Burgess said: I was thinking mostly about leaders who get ordanined knowing they dont agree with their church but seem to try to change the church to fit their ideas instead of going somewhere else.
When I was at WTS I met a young man who made no attempt to hide the fact that he rejected orthodox Christianity and embraced neo-Orthodoxy at best and leaned heavily toward pure Liberalism. But he also made it quite clear that when it came time to take his final exams, he would write all the "correct" answers. And when he took his final oral exam he would simply tell the examiners what they wanted to hear in order that he could get his degree. When asked why he would basically lie about what he truly believed, he gleefully said that his plans were to be ordained to the pulpit ministry in an orthodox church where he could then teach and preach his views. So, there are those who are hypocrites and who are doubtless unregenerate yet who are ordained to office in the church. If anyone believes that all Elders and/or Deacons are infallibly true believers in Christ, may I suggest you open your eyes to the sad reality of the world we live in, not excluding the Church. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/giggle.gif" alt="" />
In His grace,
Did others know about his views? I meet some like that when I was in college, but they were open about it because the teachers did not care.
