Leave Your Pastor - Андрей Викторович Шибанов

The elders need to be appointed by a believer from another town in order to avoid the creation of a hierarchy, when one elder appoints those loyal to him and by doing so, he concentrates power in his own hands:

And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed. – Acts 14:23

“Young Christian” title

Do not call anyone a young Christian to dominate over this person, rather teach new converts obedience to God. Any believer can be mature or immature regardless of the time when a person was converted. The matter of fact is not all old disciples are mature, and not all young disciples are immature. As the scripture says:

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil. – Hebrews 5:12-14

Do not judge by appearance but you must judge with right judgement:

Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.” – John 7:24

Wrong practice of “counting the cost” with church leaders

Do not count the cost before baptism with church leaders or pastors because they baptize people into their organizations, not into Christ. If you have counted the cost with the church leaders or pastors, you must confess your sin and repent from your ignorance.

Calling “prideful” those who disobey church leaders

Do not call anyone prideful when he or she disobeys the Antichrist: church leaders, pastors and priests. People are prideful if they rebel against God and do not obey His commands. Do not exalt church leaders, pastors and priests above God by calling prideful those who refuse to obey them. Pride is a sin of the devil who rebelled against God. Just like the devil who exalted himself above God, so do the church leaders exalt themselves. They will receive their reward in full. You must not humble yourself before church leaders but instead humble yourself before God:

All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the LORD. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word. – Isaiah 66:2

Calling fellowship a “spending time”

Do not call a fellowship of believers a spend time. If you walk in the light, then you need to fellowship with other believers, not merely spending your time:

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. – 1 John 1:7

Calling others a “spiritual father” or “discipler”

You must not call anyone a spiritual father or discipler:

And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven. – Matthew 23:9

The term discipler is a synonym of the term spiritual father which is adopted by Catholics. Instead of calling someone a spiritual father or discipler, you must encourage each other daily:

But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called "today," that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. – Hebrews 3:13

Calling “Korah” those who oppose the Antichrist

Do not call others Korah or Korah’s rebellion when they oppose church leaders, pastors and priests. Korah opposed Moses who have been appointed by God himself to lead His people out of Egypt:

They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron and said to them, "You have gone too far! For all in the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the LORD?" – Numbers 16:3

Church leaders, pastors and priests have never been appointed by God because these are the illegitimate positions, so they must be confronted for the very same reason. They disclose their cunningness by occupying those positions. The only position approved by apostles is an elder. An elder does not lord over believers the way church leaders do. Church leaders, pastors and priests are Korah of our time who have led a rebellion against Christ. All those who followed church leaders, whoever recognized their authority, have joined a rebellion against Christ. They have followed the false prophets. God will punish them the way God punished Korah and his company. When church leaders, pastors and priests accuse others of rebellion against them, they actually admit that they lord over believers! This is how the Antichirst reveals himself.

Accusing others of being divisive or heretic

Do not call anyone divisive or heretic when he or she speaks the truth contrary to the traditions of your organization. Church leaders, pastors and priests accuse believers of being divisive or heretic when they speak against the traditions of their religious organizations. Church leaders manipulate with the below scripture:

As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him, – Titus 3:10

Paul writes here about the person who stirs up a division among the believers, meaning he speaks about the person who deviates from the sound gospel of Christ, teach others to do so and draws disciples after him. Church leaders falsely claim that this scripture speaks about the person who teaches contrary to the traditions of their religious organization. The phrase “have nothing more to do with him” they misinterpret as to physically remove the person from the meeting place. For example, church leaders physically drag out a believer they find divisive or file a police case charging him with trespassing the private territory of their religious organization. Roman Catholics killed many at the time of Inquisition, charging their opponents with heresy. Believers must not physically remove anyone from the