Pastor

There are some very specific instructions in the Bible about what a pastor should be. It is important to stick to these guide lines so that the church can be lead by a man that is suited for the job. In the church today there are so many rules and regulations that everyone must follow that are such gray areas in the Bible but when it comes to the area of leadership everyone wants to let everyone be apart. This is not a good area to be liberal with the rule of who can lead the church. The leader of the Church is God ultimately but the individual leaders should held to a higher slandered then the rest of the body because everyone is looking to them for guidance. That being said I do believe that the slandered should be held as a post salvation slandered. What a man does before he is saved is forgiven and cleansed. I think that Paul is a really good example of this. Before his conversion he was a terrible man but after God got a hold of his life he was a new man. As long as one changes at his salvation and follows the criteria for leadership he should be eligible to be a pastor.