I've been in the ministry for almost 2 decades. I have had a saint recently leave under this ministry who I have visited in the hospital, had prayed for their children, and had taught them a Bible Study and won them to the Lord. Yet, when they left they slandered me and my pastor and called us all sorts of evil names!!!
Why would someone do something like that!
Another time, the pastor or I have paid their utility bills, taken them food, and used our own money to make sure they have gas in their car! I am so very hurt and just feel sometimes like giving up the ministry!
I've been in the ministry for almost 2 decades. I have had a saint recently leave under this ministry who I have visited in the hospital, had prayed for their children, and had taught them a Bible Study and won them to the Lord. Yet, when they left they slandered me and my pastor and called us all sorts of evil names!!!
Why would someone do something like that!
Another time, the pastor or I have paid their utility bills, taken them food, and used our own money to make sure they have gas in their car! I am so very hurt and just feel sometimes like giving up the ministry!
What do you think I should do?
Talk about it ad nauseum and even add that you mortgaged your house to save theirs.
In addition, you should get out of the ministry and never return!
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I've gone and done it now! I'm on Facebook!!!
I was beginning to have the same mentality at once when I really found out it wasn't about "I"!
WE understand, of course, this thread was started to give the other side of the view for the "Pastor done me wrong" thread? The context of the thread was satire. We are sorry that we used the letter "I", ( We was speaking from personal experience), but that was not the intent of the thread. We did notice that you used the same terminology in your response.
Unfortunately, I have seen both sides of abuse by saints and abuse by pastors. My father was a pastor, so I witnessed many folks taking advantage of his generosity only to throw it in his face when he couldn't continue.
Some people are attention hogs and just don't comprehend the sacrifices others make to TRY to make them happy!
But....an abusive pastor is a leader, and he can control what he does to get many of the responses that he gets. There's nothing more tragic than a pastor on a power trip!
The stuff a pastor can't control, he should have thick skin and try to not let abusive saints bother him. Saint abuse comes with the territory.
Pastoral abuse shouldn't come with the territory of being a good saint in a church.
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