A Pastor’s Stessfession

So B.L. (the Dube) rightly points out that it would be great for everyone to have a Stessfession site. In honor of that sentiment I offer mine, fell free to use this place as your doorway to the wonderful world of stessfession. Use the comments to stressfess whatever you like. A few of mine.

1. It get’s old waiting for people who should know better to mature.

2. It totally frustrates me when the supposedly mature, rather than supporting those who are new to a given ministry attack like a pack of dogs. It seems very unChristlike….why is there no sense of helping people grow into their ministry instead of complaining about it. I am not referring to my ministry but to the many young people whom I have working with me in various areas who get picked on instead of appreciated. These are people who are volunteering their time to make the church better, and instead of being appreciated certain birds have nothing better to do than crow about how they are doing it. Why not love them and support them appreciate that they are growing into what Christ is doing?

3. When people seperate mission from discipleship, as if they are mutually exclusive…

More later….

4. When the “supposedly mature” look at the church and access it’s value by all the wrong standards. Newsflash: the church is full of funny-looking, socially challenged, unstylish, awkward, sinful, messed up people. They’re called neighbors (as in that pesky Golden Rule). I also find it interesting that the unchurched don’t have these standards. Why is that?

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5. When Christian people seperate into “us” and “thems”…as in we will minister to them…but they are not cool like us…Or almost as insideous: We don’t want our family around them they are dangerous…

Comment by PJ:

The most Christlike aspect of the whole problem/process described is that he lived with and served the same kind of people.

Response by me:

This is a really good point an one I have been dealing with a lot lately…aren’t we when we complain about them just becoming like them? Are we not becoming what we hate? I realize there has to be a place to speak truth about sin in another’s life…but when do we start to sin in our response to them..this is hard for me because frankly I find some people so annoying and so unwilling to a part of the mission of Chrsit that I want to slap them…By then again as PJ observes, Jesus had the same kind of people in his life. His disciples, after spending three years with him and while he is trying to tell them what is about to happen to him are having dinner with him and begin to argue about who will sit at his right hand in heaven, which is contrary to everythign he has taught them in the previous three years, three years of full on time will Jesus and they still don’t get it…Now if it is me I probably push away from the table storm off and write a blog post about them…but the interesting thing is that Jesus stays at the table….