People are always unfair to pastors; while they sleep, they keep praying. While they settle in their respective jobs and businesses, he obeys God’s calling and follows the less-traveled road to success. Through the years of uncertainty about paying house rent, he sticks to his calling; his kid’s school fees are not always guaranteed when he starts his ministry, yet he obeys the God that calls him; having endured enough insults from relations and friends, who believes he is too smart to abandon a good degree for this “pastor-thing” that seems not to be putting food regularly on the table, or his frequently doubting spouse that keeps suggesting they take short-cuts and that God will understand.
However, when he becomes financially comfortable, the critics gather; when his situation turns around, he gets maligned for his newfound prosperity (all emanating from deeply rooted envy and jealousy). At the immediate sign of a mistake or miscommunication, they immeasurably pull him down in words and castigate his person at the earliest opportunity.
Pastors are humans, and Bishops have blood flowing in their veins. They err, and we see it because they are in the limelight ( I wish we could switch limelight and see who will do better). Even when they do what they believe (and we don’t believe), we castigate them as if they should be gods and not mortals like us.
Criticism is fair, but character assassination with words and maligning them has gone too far. It’s now admissible that to be “hypie” and “socially correct”, you must malign and unnecessarily criticize Men of God. These guys do sin like we all do, and God forgives, so celebrate their sins by castigating them.
If you don’t agree with their doctrines, I don’t believe you should call them names, so far they don’t fall below the ambits of the law. Rather than criticize them, why not report them to the God they claim to serve, as prescribed in the bible.
Shout out to men of God that has blessed me with their teachings, so innumerable I can’t count.