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Religious ministry is very different from business.   One of the major ways it is different is its goals.   A ministry exists solely to educate people in the ways of faith.   This includes teaching, doing (outreach and spiritual formation), praying, and preaching.   None of these things require a ‘gatekeeper.’    In a business, a gatekeeper is a person who is there to make sure the information gets to the right person, and make sure that the person who makes the decisions has the time and energy to make the right decisions for the company.   It is a viable method of making sure that the people at the very top don’t exhaust themselves trying to micromanage every part of their business.   A business is there to provide goods and services, and to make a profit doing so.   For example, I work at a school.   There is a ‘gatekeeper’ there.   The school secretary makes sure that every person who walks through the doors of the scho...

So, husband and I were talking to a friend, and another friend pulled them away.  My husband said, "[Friend 2] is just doing her job. She's been told to separate [anyone in the same group as Friend 1] from anybody who says they're wrong or tells them no."  Kah-bllink....  Really? That makes me furious on three levels. Firstly, everybody needs someone to tell them when they are completely and utterly full of it. Seriously, even the Pope, the one man I would historically expect to have this attitude, has said that he is a sinner, meaning he's wrong sometimes.  Secondly, the concept that humans, especially as a group,  are infallible has caused any number of wars.  People cannot see new information, nor understand that they may be wrong. This makes them cocky, angry, and ready to fight.  Usually their ideas are not hills to die on at the least, and at the most, outdated and dangerous.  Several conflicts come to mind, including a good po...