Why Such A Fuss Over Standards!!

[MissBrattified]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

BTW, I would have been shocked as well. When God puts us in a place it's for a reason - He is building a church! Sometimes, as in our lives and in our experience, He has told us to stay and sit tight and others times He has instructed us to leave. We don't make our own choices - that's how people get out of the will of God and that is, IMO, what is going wrong in the church.

All you are doing is teaching someone to "chunk" it, if you don't like it. We taught our children - "We will see this through. We will do what God has instructed us to do."

How will we teach our children to bear up through tough times in their future lives if we leave because someone is rubbing us the wrong way? We taught our children to stick things out - don't cut and run!

What if Jesus wouldn't have endured the cross, despising the shame because he was sick of it?

Who is driving whom? Are we driving God or is He driving us?

Apples and oranges. Jesus endured on the cross at the hands of his enemies and for the sake of our sins. The church isn't supposed to persecute its own. If we endure persecution, it should be proudly, at the hands of unbelievers who are by proxy persecuting Christ--not at the hands of those who are supposed to exemplify him.

The relationship with the mother in question is too complex to go into, so I'll just drop that one for now. Suffice it to say, though, her children would not have been harmed going to perhaps Bro. Treece's church or Bro. Ewing's, or some of the other fantastic churches in the area. God is building a church. Made up of the whole of believers. That is unrelated, IMO, to which believers we assemble with for worship, prayer and the Word on a regular basis.

I can guaranTEE you that if someone mistreated my children in our present assembly, and it couldn't be resolved, and my children were continually hurt by the situation, I would remove them promptly to a healthier atmosphere. I've known of pastor's kids who had to attend a different church because remaining in the place where they had grown up, with people who didn't necessarily treat them right, was hindering their spiritual growth. Once they relocated, they were able to mature and reach their full potential.