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Laymen complaining about "weak pastors," ask yourself some questions:
-Who extends a call to these bad pastors?
-What do laity like to do to good pastors?
-What does St. Paul say about the kind of ministers people will actually want during the end times?
-Are faithful pastors rewarded by laity for their faithfulness or punished?
Most of the time I am more than happy to go after my contemporaries in ministry and tell them we need to clean up our act. It falls on deaf ears.
One of the biggest reasons for this is that the laity have ridden the secularism carousel and now they've hit the wall.
They went after the jerks, the players, the pickup artists ear ticklers, and after they've been hurt for decades they come to the faithful guys and make all sorts of demands on them and want society to police them.
My brother in Christ, you hate worldly pastors, but categorically laity just wanted those worldly guys and punished pastors who weren't.
I'm NOT talking about the Catacomb Synod laity or any other group of Pietists. I never met a Pietist layman who wasn't a cut above the rest. But the people who hate clergy categorically are no better than aging feminists. Think about it!