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Originally Posted by stony ground
The pastor was warning his flock, nothing wrong with the warning, he's doing his job. You can argue with his choice of venue, but giving that his warning referred to Facebook, Facebook does seem a likely place for the warning to have maximum impact.
My former pastor used to say "When you throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that yelps is the one it hit." If the "Christian" involved in this drama took the pastor's words to be directed at him/her, then he/she might consider that his/her outburst towards the pastor is the product of a guilty conscience. As a member of the flock, the "Christian" 's outburst would do more to steer me clear of him/her than anything the pastor said.
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Amen! It was suggested that the Pastor would have handled the matter with more wisdom if he would have just preached about it on Sunday. I understand the point that was made, and perhaps that would be a better choice (more wise). However, who in the congregation would even understand a referrence to fb status messages? Many probably don't even have a page. So, I thought that it was also fitting to bring it to the forum in which it was being done in the first place, although it does make you subject the activity we are discussing now. I actually don't find error in what the Pastor did at all. Any action can be taken for ill intent, but I don't think that the Pastor has that type of heart.
When you are convicted or even refuse conviction and it turns to offense, its easy to lash out at the messenger. Yet the God the Christian serves says live Holy. I suppose he'll curse God out too. That's the sad part.