Do you know of any Church of God pastors who have “armorbearers”. Let me hear from you about this! I know of a couple of pastors who seem to have armor bearers and I wonder about the reasoning or Biblical basis.
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What I have seen of these armor bearers are that they are black men. In the past armor bearers have been associated with celebrity black pastors and they are always at the beckon of the preacher, a servant of sorts.
Do white COG pastors have black servants? Men who carry their Bibles, act as bodyguards, drive their vehicles. Run errands, pick up their laundry etc.
In some cases they are ministers themselves. They assist in the altars may even carry a handkerchief, carry their sermons etc.
Is there a Biblical basis for this?
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Someone recently commented that his church, COG, had a deputy sheriff to provide security for the services. I wonder if this deputy was a black man!
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Why do you wonder about that?
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I shouldn’t wonder
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Moses had Aaron, Jesus had the 12, Paul had Timothy and Silas and perhaps others.
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Did Aaron run Moses’ clothes to the cleaner, drive him to the airport, do errands for Moses’ wife, carry his Bible and sermon notes, tag along wherever Moses went, shine his shoes!!!!
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what are bows, arrows and armorbearers?
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My husband is a white Church of God pastor. When we were in Kansas, he pastored a small church that quickly grew into a multi-racial church. Our church became known as the “Melting Pot” church where everyone was welcome and all could find love. There were racial challenges that we were not use to and we learned so much about other cultures. We had a lot of inter-racial marriages since we had a large university and a military base nearby. The black culture really take care of their pastor. They would meet before service in the pastor’s office and pray over my husband. They made sure he had water. They did not tolerate anyone speaking negative about the pastor. They all were black and they set on the front row. They were faithful and loyal, spiritual, men of God. No, they were not our slaves and they did not look at my husband as God, but they did highly respect “the man of God.” They called themselves “armour bearers” and they called me “First Lady” which I was always uncomfortable with. The Black culture does like titles. Other races in that church did not have a problem with the titles or those who called themselves armour bearers. There was so much unity and Holy Ghost power in the services, that people did not have the time or desire to get wrapped up in all that flesh stuff such as jealousy or racism. I can’t remember how many Sundays exactly in a row that we had someone saved EVERY Sunday. The Sunday before my husband left that church because of (aged sickly parents), he baptized 27 people. God power and Spirit can work where there is UNITY.
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excellent comment
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Here is an example of an armor bearer. Kenneth Copeland is re-mantling Steve Lowery and Perry Stone is earnestly praying by their side. Perry gets very emotional.
In the second picture Steve Lowery’s armor bearer steps between Steve and Perry to either to protect Steve from Perry or to keep Perry from stealing Steve’s spiritual thunder.
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This was taken at North Cleveland COG and the video got into the hands of Steve’s church and is being sold for $10.
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Steve Lowery has armorbearers who are always by his side. I would assume it was a practice held by his father as well.
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Steve has informed me that his man is an armorbearer. I thought at first he was security but he let me know he wasn’t.
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