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Originally Posted by CC1
...Finally this last Sunday without telling my wife what I was going to do I went up to my pastor after service and told him what my internal struggle was....
I had dreaded this conversation because in my religious background rarely if ever did a pastor think it was the will of a tithe payer to leave. Especially just to go to another church in the same town. However my pastor lived up to my high opinion of him by telling us "Why don't you take six months or so and go to your daughters church. Tell the pastor you are not making a long term committment yet but want to help out for these months and see how things go". He went on to say that he know that church was a young church that needed elders and established people and it might well be the place God wants me to be, that doing what he suggested would let my wife and myself discover if that was the case, and that if it was we had his blessing and he would always be there for us.
I can't express what a relief and blessing it was for my pastor to handle this situation like he has. It made me love and respect him that much more.
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WOW! What a refreshing post!! What a great pastor!!
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