Can the Servant of God be Both Anointed...and Wrong at the Same Time?

My head has been swirling with questions for the last two days, and the Lord has been helping me work through some faith issues.  I have peace now, if not concrete answers, about all my recent questions, but not the liberty or leading to write about what I’ve learned except for my conclusions on one specific situation.  I have five half-written articles to prove it!  Now, on to our topic…
  
I’ve been very troubled lately by the dogmatic nature in which a preacher I know addresses a non-doctrinal issue.  For the sake of being discreet, I’m not even going to name the issue.  Let’s pretend the issue is "traditional versus casual dress" in worship services.  That’s not what it is, but it’s a similar type of non-doctrinal debate.  Let’s say that on social media this pastor is constantly commenting about how sinful it is for people to show up to worship service in casual attire, and he regularly decries any church that condones such.  I feel this pastor’s arguments are “profane and vain babblings” (2 Timothy 2:16) and the manner in which his opinions are delivered, regardless of whether he’s right or wrong, is contrary to the command of 2 Timothy 2:24 (“And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient.”)  However, that’s not even the point of this article.  The point of this article is to answer the questions, “Can I trust a preacher with whom I strongly disagree about one topic?” and “Is the anointed of God perfect in his understanding?”   

I feel like God answered these questions for me through a recent real-life incident.  My husband and I have been trying to give our oldest child more responsibilities, little tests of maturity to gauge how she handles certain situations.  Recently, he let her go into a gas station to make a purchase on her own (he was parked where he could watch her through the window).  He told her to buy two Slushees- one for her and one for her sister.  She came back with three Slushees and a pack of gummy bears.  My husband wasn’t angry with her, especially since she had brought him a treat too, but he encouraged her to only buy what she was told the next time.  

In this situation, my daughter was sent to do a job, which she did, but she overstepped the instructions she was given.  In the same way, I think a minister can be truly called and anointed of God, yet at times be erroneous in their teaching or delivery.  Sometimes God picks a messenger, God gives them clear instructions, the messenger delivers the message, but because the messenger is human, they add unnecessarily to the original communication.  It doesn't mean that person wasn't sent of God.  It doesn't mean they are a false teacher.  It means they are human.     

In the scripture we find where Peter, upon whom the Lord declared He would build the church, was called out by Paul because he was wrong in separating himself from the Gentile believers (Galatians 2:11).  Even the early church leaders made mistakes!  I don’t believe the mistake of the Apostle Peter nullified his ministry.  Believers need to be discerning enough themselves to not “throw the baby out with the bathwater”, as the idiom goes.  In truth, there’s probably no preacher or teacher with whom I agree on every single point of scripture or practice.

I’m thankful God has allowed me to come to a personal resolution on this matter.  Obviously, I will not sit under any teaching that is contrary to the primary tenets of my faith, but in this situation, I will try to maintain respect for this pastor with whom I disagree.  I will on occasion listen to his messages.  I will pray for God to deal with him about his handling of non-doctrinal issues.  And, I will rest in the fact that God’s ministers are human, “nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure” (2 Timothy 2:19).

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