Q & A - Church Order
Questions 226 (COD Page 887)
Who should be the teachers?
71 There you are, that’s up to you to vote your own teachers in. And you ought to do that, put them in there, get somebody. And meet with the church, and say, “Who’s...Who here feels led of the Lord?” And then get a qualified teacher. And then let it be done. It’s got to be strictly business, brethren. If the teacher can’t qualify to it, then change teachers.
72 When the time comes, as under God, if I feel like that Orman Neville can’t no more qualify to be pastor here, I’m going to mention it to the church. When I’d see one thing here, think that you deacons couldn’t qualify to be deacons, I’m going to mention it to the church, that, “I find out there’s a certain deacon out here doing something he shouldn’t do, and he doesn’t keep his post of duty,” and so forth like that, or a trustee or whatever it is. I can’t vote it in or out, the church has to do that, but I’m certainly going to present it before the church. See, because that’s what it should do. That’s what I’m supposed to be, as overseer, I’m supposed to look and see what’s going on. We’re going to Heaven, not out here somewhere to a rally or something to have a lot of fun and run over one another, and play baseball. We’re here handling the most gracious thing there is on earth, the Word of God, and it’s to be carried on in godly order.
Who should be the teachers?
73 That’s up to you to select them. But I would take, for the babies, I’d take an old woman, some that can do that. But for the teenagers, I’d take some teacher that’s strict, and not just going out here and having wiener roasts. That’d be all right if they want to go on a wiener roast, but just put all the thing to that...Put it to the Word, let somebody who is able to hold the Word. And it’s going to be, this church stands not for...Wiener roast is all right, and–and little picnics that you want to go together and fellowship, that’s fine, that–that’s what you should do to entertain the children. But in this place in here, this is the Word of God. Wiener roast is when you get together, or something like that, but not in this house of God. And these know, of course we know we don’t believe in this here foolishness of–of–of parties and everything like that around here, we–we...you know better than that.