Looking over the landscape of Baptist churches, there are days when we might rightly cry out, “Lord, give us a bishop!”
Too often, churches use their full autonomous rights to make awful hiring decisions. Not all the time, but not just occasionally either. Is saying so questioning the work of the Holy Spirit? Hopefully not; more likely it is acknowledging that churches are human institutions serving divine purposes. Sometimes humans get it wrong. And sometimes humans administering churches get it wrong in consecutive terms.
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