A pastor

A pastor …

A pastor must talk to God about the church members' problems,

teach them God's laws and commands, and show them

how they should live and what they should do

(Ref.: Exodus 18:19-20).

God's response to Moses, the leader of the Israelites, in prayer was,

"Go on ahead of the people. Take with you some of the elders of Israel

and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.

I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb.

Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink"

(Exodus 17:5-6).

So Moses did as he was instructed, in the presence of the elders of Israel.

A praying pastor must act according to the prayer response received from God.

They should go forth, not complaining, before the congregation they lead.

The pastor should stand before God with the elders.

Additionally, they should obediently believe in

and act upon the miraculous command of God, as in the past, "Strike the rock with the staff."

At that time, when God parted the Red Sea to make a way,

He will also bring forth water from the rock for the congregation to drink.

Those who believe in Christ, who is the Rock,

will have streams of living water flowing from within them,

just as the Scripture says (John 7:38).

A pastor must preach the word of God as it is

(Ref.: Exodus 19:25).

Pastors should not dishonor God's holy name

by mishandling the holy offerings that believers give to God

(Ref.: Leviticus 22:1).

It is better to hear God speak directly to us

than to hear Him speak through a pastor

(Ref.: Exodus 20:19).

In Leviticus 21:13-15 of the Modern Korean Bible,

God says: "The high priest must marry a virgin.

He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or a prostitute,

but must marry a virgin from his own people.

Otherwise, his children would be defiled among their people.

I am the Lord, who makes him holy."

To the prophet Hosea, God said:

"Go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her,

for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness to the Lord"

(Hosea 1:2).