Church to Former Pastors: Sorry We Treated You Like Trash
If you’ve been a pastor for more than ten minutes, you have heard of churches that churn through pastors and staff. For one reason or another, the church can not keep people for more than a couple of years before they are looking to go somewhere else. Sometimes it is the pastor’s fault, other times it is a stiff necked congregation, whichever it is, it is depressing… and significantly lessens a church’s spiritual impact. Earlier this week we came across the story of a church in Indiana that recently brought back a series of former pastors for a service of corporate repentance.Through the service, the church recognized its rebellious spirit over three decades, and apologized to several pastors by performing a foot washing service.
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I can name a few churches like this: Most of the time the pastor of that church was the problem. Two churches there were a few people in the church that was the problem. I have never been fired from a church where I was the pastor. Only two churches did I resign because of the people. Two churches I resign because I felt I should, but the people were wonderful.
