my dad has been a pastor for 10 years. he was a cop before that and got asked to take his police job back. he accepted and stepped down to part-time pastor at the church. well, one of the committees in the church came to my father last sunday and asked him to take his family and leave the church. so we announced tonight that our last sunday would be fathers day. ive been a little torn up about leaving. ive been there since i was 6. most of those people there remember teaching me and watching me grow up. it pisses me off that they would tell us to leave. its pretty much causing huge drama within the church because so many people dont want us to leave. but we have to. they are bringing in a new pastor. my goddaughters family goes there, my best friend and her family go there... what sucks ass is that my best friends mother is on the committee that asked us to leave. i have a feeling that the church is going to split.
im pissed that they would ask a family such as mine to leave. im not saying that my family is perfect, but i cant tell you how many times we;ve gotten calls at 2am and have gotten out of bed to attend "emergencies". theres been so many times that my father has sacraficed family time to be with someone who only has a week left to live. theres been times when i woke up and didnt know where my father and mother have been, only to find out that they were counseling a family. theres been times when my father has been extremely sick, and still gave of his time to go open the church for someone who forgot their glasses. weve given so much to that church in the past 10 years it seems like they just dont care or dont see how much we do for them. as a family, we have every right to be there.
im not saying that im closed minded. i can see how if youve been a pastor for 10 years and they bring in somebody else to take your spot, how that could affect the church. knowing my dad, i know that it wouldnt hurt him. he would just be happy staying with people hes known and grown to love.
its going to be hard to say goodbye to people whove watched me grow up. some of the young-ish (20-30 yr old) ladies who ive grown to adopt as second parents, we were crying tonight.
everything happens for a reason. but it doesnt seem like it here. we vote over the color of the damn carpet and whether or not to fill the cracks in the ceiling, but we dont vote over asking the pastor and his family to leave?! this whole situation is really weighing on my conscience.
i have mixed feelings. im pissed and im also scared and depressed. any comforting words?
I'm not too familiar with the bible, but I do recall a story in which one of the apostles or disciples was trying to preach to a town. The people in the town told him to go away so he did. I believe the moral was that it's good to preach the gospel, but if the people you preach it to don't want it, don't force it on them and leave.
Your church has asked you to leave, although I'm no religious scholar and I probably might end up giving you some wrong advice(in a christian perspective) my own christian beliefs tell me that your family should leave because you were asked to. Your father may have sacrificed a lot for your church, and although the people on the committee don't see that, the good he has done is obvious in God's eyes.
Personally, if i went to a church like that and a committee told my pastor's family to leave after he stepped down from being a pastor, I would leave to. A church of god shouldn't reject anyone, especially one of their own. Once again, I'm not a religious scholar and my knowledge of christianity, is very, very limited, but i would say the people on your committee are not real christians. Their actions reflect the "godlessness" within them. If anything, your family should pray for them. I'll pray for you to, and this might seem random to you, but I have a large obstacle in my life coming up, if you could pray for me to, that would be great. Thanks.
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you may not be a scholar, but you have an amazing point. feel free to leave me a message. smichele427
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