Our church is going through a really difficult time right now. I am in a new position as elder and am finding out that there is a lot of backstabbing going on. Our pastor was having some personal problems and instead of rallying around them, the church has done nothing but push them out the door and find fault with them. I feel just because a pastor is in a leadership position does not make them less human and just as the church would have rallyed around a member they should have given the pastor a leave of absence and nurtured them as a church should. I am so disappointed that I am going to church with hypocrits. Don't get me wrong, I am a sinner and fall WAY SHORT of being the person God wants me to be, but this situation has upset me more than anyone can ever know. Any ideas or have any of you been through something similar? How should I address this, if at all?
2007-07-02 15:54:38 · 5 answers · asked by k-freshh 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i dont have a problem at all. most other beliefs have a problem with us but i dont. if i did i would hope to either get it resolved or move on and find another church.
2007-07-02 16:01:06 · answer #1 · answered by dannamanna99 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh... let me see... The church I belonged to back in NJ had at least 3 "bad" situations... and as I have learned, is starting to have another one!
Unfortunately, the church is filled with imperfect humans struggling with their faiths and feelings. It can be really tough on the church leaders.
Does your church have a heirarchy? A bishop? A "District President"? SOMEONE that oversees your church's pastor and your church? Most organized churches do. My suggestion is to contact them and ask to speak with someone who can counsel you on what to do. They may not know what situation is going on in your church, and very well may be in a good position to intervene to help straighten things out. "Bad" situations are not "good" for the congregation... DUH!!!
Believe it or not, your church is NOT the first... NOR will it be the last... to have difficulties. Even Paul had to write to the "Early Churches" because of difficulties they were having in their congregations!!! But as Paul wrote to "counsel" those churches, so it is best that you contact your "higher-ups." If you don't contact them... if you assume someone ELSE will contact them... well... then NO ONE will be contacting them, and nothing will change and improve!
GOOD LUCK, and God Bless!
2007-07-02 16:36:09 · answer #2 · answered by wyomugs 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Remember, some religious leaders in Jesus’ day felt that God was unconditionally with them. Since God had chosen Israel for a special role, some religious leaders thought that God would never abandon them—no matter what they did. (Micah 3:11) Eventually, however, they went too far in their rejection of God’s laws and standards. As a result, Jesus Christ told them frankly: “Look! Your house is abandoned to you.” (Matthew 23:38) An entire religious system lost God’s favor. He rejected it and let the Roman armies destroy its capital city, Jerusalem, and its temple in 70 C.E. Turn away, then, from any institutions or organizations that have besmirched the name of Christ and defamed Christianity over the past two thousand years. Otherwise, as Jesus Christ told the apostle John, you could “receive part of [their] plagues” when God executes his judgment on them in the near future. (Revelation 1:1; 18:4, 5
2007-07-02 16:01:41 · answer #3 · answered by buddy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
of direction you have a perfect to be disillusioned with particular human beings however the management is yet another concern. I had a matching concern with my father while he substitute into demise. i substitute into offended till now each thing yet while i myself have been given in contact with the Church I observed the super workload clergymen have wherein it relatively is in simple terms no longer available for them to maintain up. I additionally found out that each scientific institution has a spiritual man or woman that has some sort of authority 9from whoever) that has a tendency to the ill - possibly a deacon. So particular i may well be disillusioned as you're yet possibly there are circumstances as quickly as we would desire to have some expertise. There are in simple terms no longer adequate human beings interior the church. God Bless you.
2016-10-03 11:14:18 · answer #4 · answered by persinger 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem I'm most worried about is apostasy entering our church! GOD help us!
GOD bless
2007-07-02 15:59:50 · answer #5 · answered by Exodus 20:1-17 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋