Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Church drama! long, but important! Please answer?
Okay, so my old church pastor(I don't go to church there anymore, actually that church made me question what's so great about Christianity anyway[please don't tell me that I need to get saved. that's off topic]but anyway) my former minister(Missionary Baptist church) ran off our youth minister(I'm 13 so I was in the youth group) and this guy, the youth pastor, was awesome. He taught us more about the religion and put it into terms we could understand, and helped us follow the best path we could, better than any other pastor I've known, in my life. Anyway, the pastor ran him off. He also made the youth minister tell us a coverstory that stated he would be moving to California to start his own ministry, and that he was moving on from our little church. I knew better than to believe that, but I also knew better than to ask what really happened. I left shortly after then because the head pastor took over our youth ministry, and almost immediately started trying to control our lives, make us into little godly slaves, and also began telling us things we all knew were false and nowhere in the bible. I disagreed with what he was teaching and how he was teaching it so I left. I recently started thinking about the incidents again, and realized that the pastor ran the youth minister off.. I couldn't believe I hadn't seen it before. I asked the youth min. if that is what happened, and he said, "I can't tell you but I think you know the answer". I have been getting Facebook messages (note the "s") and friend requests("s" again) from the head pastor, who says that there were "misunderstandings beween you and me and maybe the youth group"... I finally replied to one of his messages and told him that he lied to us and that I couldn't just forget that. He told me that he didn't lie at all and to please tell him what he "lied" about. When I said that he ran off the youth minister, he promptly told me that he did not run him off and that the youth minister lied to us, not him. He also said that the youth minister had "maturity issues that needed to be worked on" and pretty much slandered him, going on and on about all these "stupid, irresponsible" things that the youth pastor had done.. I was going to give that church another chance now that they have a new youth minister.. Maybe it would renew my religion, because as of right now, because of that head pastor, I have a pretty bad impression of Christianity. I used to think that anyone who thinks that christians are hypocrites was just ignorant and needed to take a closer look at what they do and the kinds of lives that the majority of them live, but now, as an outsider looking in and back, I realize that that's not really the issue. I'm far from ignorant. I know that there are Christians who lead wonderful, pure lives and do all they can to help others, but that's not true for most of them. Should I give the church one more week, just go and see if they would hit a "fourth strike" if I went again to see what it's like now? After all, the head pastor is still there.. But I do wonder if the new youth minister is worth anything.. I'm just not sure if that's genuine wonder or morbid curiosity though.. I don't want to give up completely on all religion though.. Maybe I can find something I truly believe in. I don't want going back to that church to ruin that chance for me. Should I give them a fourth chance?
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