@SThedell @ElizabethZirkle @keahbone Flip the question - the standards to enter into the position of eldership are rightly higher than those for salvation, so the demonstration of repentance to RE-enter such a position ought to be similarly higher
@KikiCharles@KyleJamesHoward Well yes, except that Jesus himself referred repeatedly and often to his "Father". You're absolutely right God isn't gendered, but "Father" (and variants thereof) is how we should refer to Him.