Can people acquire guilt when their minister or clergy sin? What about their worship leader or pastor, their organist or music director? What sounds like \u2018transmission of guilt\u2019 is a difficult concept to grasp, let alone explain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Leviticus 4:3-4. The high priest represents God\u2019s people, intercedes (to God) for them, and worships God to obtain God’s promised forgiveness for them (from God) individually and corporately (as a church). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maybe in those days they did not yet have privacy laws or \u2018best practice\u2019; unless people agree to not tell the truth (or tell lies) and so the truth of a sin is not revealed to others, the lie might never see light of day \u2013 of course, except God and he chooses to reveal this at his time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What tends to happen today is we don\u2019t interfere with people\u2019s \u2018private\u2019 lives; and people in church might choose not to cast prying eyes on an aspect of their minister\u2019s life that suggests it is sinful. We tend to give people the benefit of the doubt. Truth can be very painful. On the other end of the scale, when truth is discovered, we might very quickly feel the urge not to return to this community again. It seems we are exercising a choice in distancing ourselves from the sin and sinner. In some ways, we experience guilt. Or anger and confusion, but underlying that might be a sense of guilt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Leviticus deals with this situation. Read only in the next blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Can people acquire guilt when their minister or clergy sin? What about their worship leader or pastor, their organist or music director? What sounds like \u2018transmission of guilt\u2019 is a difficult concept to grasp, let alone explain. Leviticus 4:3-4. The high priest represents God\u2019s people, intercedes (to God) for them, and worships God to obtain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-book-of-leviticus","8":"category-ingredients-for-worship","9":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":998,"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions\/998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}