On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Carol or John Burgeson wrote:
> 2. If you would not ordain such people, you will have in your
> congregation, two classes of people, one "first class," who can be
> ordained (no matter what their particular sins) and one "second class",
> who cannot be ordained, because of one particular situation, which some
> Christians call a sin and other Christians claim is not a sin. I take it
> as given that having two classes of member is not a "good thing."
I Timothy 3 gives a list of qualifications for leadership positions in
churches. It seems obvious from this list that there indeed are two
classes of members: those that can be ordained and those that cannot.
Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395
Received on Thu Jun 8 15:52:54 2006
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