What right do the Deacons have to ask a preacher to leave?

Question

If the deacons ask the preacher to resign but they don't ask the congregation for their input, is this right?

There was no buisness meeting it was a closed Deacon meeting and I can't even get a response as to why they asked him to leave. All I get is that it was a closed meeting. I think it was personal.

I am Baptist

Answer 1

Maybe they did and you didnt attend the business meeting. Not all things are brought before the congregation during worship services.

They do however announce that there are business meetings scheduled.

That being said, if the deacons asked the pastor to leave without a membership or business meeting about it, then its really bad and personal or its Deacons putting themselves and what they want ahead of God and his will.

Deacons who put themselves in the position of God will end up with a church composed of themselves and whatever pastor they hire at any given time.

Experienced by myself and the church we had to leave is now filled with a whole 20 people, most all of them self willed and God led in voice only, not the heart.

Answer 2

None. Deacons are strictly to be servants of the church. God alone deals with His preachers. I am a Baptist and I am also a Preachers Wife. The way Baptist Churches are set up is that they are autonomous. That means that they govern themselves. The SBC has no say about what an individual church does. The church makes their own policies. The church is run by business meetings. Where it is one person one vote. It is a democracy. Everyone has the same say in the business of the church. A lot of deacons think that their job is to run the preacher. but that is not so. The job of a deacon is a servant. They are there to take care of the day to day business of the church so that the preacher can study and take care of God's people. By the way SBC national is in Nashville, Tennessee. Not Atlanta Georgia.

Answer 3

Individual churches have a variety of methods to govern, or oversee the operations of the church.

Some are Congregational, where the congregation is included to have input to major decisions.

Some are Shepherd lead churches, giving the pastor final say on all decisions.

Others are governed by a Board (Deacons, Elders, Trustees, etc.) which has final say. In such cases, the Board runs the church and hires the pastor.

The bottom line is this: The Board of Deacons learned something about the pastor that was contrary to scripture, or to their vision for the church, and decided to fire him.

Answer 4

The Deacons can 'ask' the Preacher to resign with out notifying the Congregation. If the Preacher will not leave then they have to bring it before the Congregation to force him/her out. That is basically the standard. There are rules and exceptions though.

Answer 5

If and only IF the deacons are versed in both Hebrew and Greek, min. then they may have a bases for dismissal if the preacher is against the word.

Most deacons I would not trust to tie my shoes!

Answer 6

they don't. The church Elders are to handle that.

scripturally..The congregation has zero imput.

unless you a HIGH dollar roller and they want to pleeezzee you.

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.If your a Southern Baptist, controlled by SBC. They will have to remove a preacher. That comes from Atlanta, Ga.
If your Independant. Your church hires and fires at will.
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The "Elders" job is to RUN the church. not the Deacons. The Preacher, teaches, he doesn't run it.
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Answer 7

you fail to mention what denomination, in many the preachers would have to be re-assigned by the national organisation, so it really don't matter what deacons or members think.

In others the deacons are the ruling body

In ohters deacons are merely ast preachers, and have no authority.

So it all depends on your church.

Answer 8

It all depends on how the church government and bylaws are set up.