James 3:1-2
Dear brothers and sisters, not many of you should become teachers in the church, for we who teach will be judged more strictly. Indeed, we all make many mistakes. For if we could control our tongues, we would be perfect and could also control ourselves in every other way.
How many of us have been wounded by a pastor? How many of us have witnessed a pastor fail? There is a lot to say about the calling of pastorship. Yet because of our human tendency for shaming and measuring people by their behavior (which is simply being religious instead of relational) rather than their character we become easily jaded and cynical towards leaders in the church. It is true that pastors/teachers in the Church “should” live above reproach, yet, no where do we see that there are two levels of Christians, the ministers verses the followers… we are all on the same playing field and we need to be aware of people’s internal character, firstly with our own.
Then the world will know us for our love, loving a person in spite of their behavior is what our Christ did for us.