The Tent: A safe place for shepherds to reflect together
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pastordzaster
Joined: 23 Oct 2017 Posts: 8 Location: Kent, WA
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2018 10:17 am Post subject: Your Faith or Your Living |
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Creating and enforcing rules is pastoral ministry. Confronting and removing abusive members from a congregation is as much shepherding as nurturing young and needy ones.
This chapter encouraged me. In my first 8 (of 12) years at our current church, we had to do formal discipline on 8 (inactive) elders and 6 (inactive) deacons and the interim choir director—among other cases!
Why? Because in the first 30 years of the church, it had never been done (with 2 cases of domestic abuse as exceptions).
I hated this. Like everyone, I want people to like me. However, given the blatant, sinful behavior of many folks, I couldn’t just overlook it.
One of my profs at RTS used to say, often, “Those who make their living from their faith, always risk losing one or the other.†I think of these words ALL THE TIME. |
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