Pastor Insinuates Bereans Possibly Out Of Line

 In a sermon, a pastor reflected with disapproval on two Bible college classmates that dared take down notes for the purposes of critiquing a sermon emanating from the pulpit of a church that the pastor fondly speaks of almost like some sort of fundamentalist Vatican. 

But if those students that he insinuates were Calvinists were out of line for exercising what they considered theological discernment, on what grounds is it acceptable for this pastor to critique those critiquers? 

But even more importantly, if mere pewfillers are to refrain from scrutinizing the ruminations of the anointed from the pulpit, shouldn’t the Apostle Paul have chastised the Bereans rather than extol them for doing nearly the exact same thing?

by Frederick Meekins