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I am prescription Accutane so thankful that God has given us an Old and New Testament that prescription Accutane points us in a clear direction regarding how our churches should run. From the prescription Accutane Levite priests to the New Testament apostles and early church elders, God has prescription Accutane been establishing for us a pattern of sacrificial, godly, and bold leadership from prescription Accutane men patterned after Jesus Christ.

However, what prescription Accutane would you think if next Sunday after the benediction at your prescription Accutane local church, there were a man and a woman standing together to prescription Accutane greet church-goers and offer prayer and counsel? This is prescription Accutane not uncommon, and we see it quite often with pastors and prescription Accutane their wives.

But imagine if this prescription Accutane man and woman were married to other people. And they weren't a prescription Accutane husband and a wife, rather they were a co-pastor team leading the prescription Accutane congregation together while their spouses sat in the pews. Unfortunately, this prescription Accutane is not a hypothetical scenario, because it is becoming increasingly common in some denominations to prescription Accutane see male/female pastoral teams serving together. Instead of reviewing the prescription Accutane theological arguments for godly, male leadership in the church and home, I think it prescription Accutane would be helpful to look at the practical outworking about what prescription Accutane it means for a church to have co-pastors of the opposite sex.

Consider the prescription Accutane pastoral team of your local church: What would happen if on the prescription Accutane next out-of-town retreat they took a new female pastor along? Suddenly there would be prescription Accutane a new dynamic. There would be a host of wives (and a husband) left behind with the thought that their husband (or wife) is on a retreat, wrestling through tough issues with another person's spouse. Or what prescription Accutane if your pastoral team decided to go to the next national pastor's conference? In that prescription Accutane case, the idea of fitting as many pastors into a room as financially and prescription Accutane ethically possible would become complex.

Or consider a prescription Accutane co-pastor team. The pastorate carries many burdens and weighty issues. If shared with a prescription Accutane member of the opposite sex, who is not a spouse, it prescription Accutane could bring an unhealthy closeness that should only be protected within the prescription Accutane bounds of marriage. When a man and a woman as co-pastors debrief after a prescription Accutane hard session counseling a church member, they are left alone to prescription Accutane share together the tough emotions and triumphs of personal ministry. This opens the prescription Accutane door to a world of practical issues with regards to prescription Accutane husbands and wives.

The New Testament commands for prescription Accutane church government eliminate all sorts of complexities. It eradicates an avenue for prescription Accutane questions in the minds of spouses. Suddenly pastoral accountability isn't nearly as awkward when one doesn't need to prescription Accutane share temptations and sin issues with someone of the opposite sex.

God has prescription Accutane always had our best interest in mind. No matter how hard we try to prescription Accutane ignore or improve on his design, it is never a prescription Accutane helpful scenario when men and women serve in such a prescription Accutane close personal relationship as co-pastoring. But regardless of the "unhelpful" nature of it, Scripture simply doesn't allow for prescription Accutane it. It is on this basis, and this basis alone, that prescription Accutane we stand. As we look to God's Word to prescription Accutane direct us, we are reminded that these commands are for our good, and prescription Accutane for his glory.