Question:
Why doesn’t the assembly have a preacher or pastor? Is there scriptural backing?

Answer:
Here are a few of the reasons why each assembly doesn’t have a preacher:

(1) God has made Christ the Head of the church (Colossians 1:18), and it would be wrong to allow any man to take the place that is Christ’s alone over His people.
(2) The Holy Spirit has put every believer into the “one body” which is the church, and has given each one different gifts or abilities to be used for the good of the body (1 Corinthians 12:12-14). Hiring an educated man to do the work of ministering the Word would limit the others the Lord has fitted to function as the Spirit of God leads them for the good of all in the assembly.
(3) We do not need to go to college to learn how to become a preacher or to do the function the Lord has given us to do in the assembly. Each believer is anointed by Spirit of God, “And ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie” (1 John 2:27). God’s college is the assembly where the Spirit of God is allowed to lead in the ministry of the Word through whomsoever He will.(4) As we have no say as to how we are saved from our sins, for God tells us we are saved by grace through faith in Christ; likewise, we have no say as to how we are to gather together as Christians. Christ, as Head of His church, directs His people by His Word as to what meetings we are to have and what we are to do when gathered as an assembly. On the first day of the week, which is the Lord’s Day, we are to remember Him in the breaking of bread (Acts 20:7). The Spirit of God is to lead each one in the assembly meetings. “Every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying” (1 Corinthians 14:15, 26).