How much information should the saints expect from their pastor? - Page 3

kylady · #21 10-10-2007, 01:32 PM

I think it is very important to know whatever your pastor or your organization stands for or againest.. It is just as important to your soul/and salvation .. as knowing what our leaders as far as presidents etc.. stand for when we vote for them.. You may not always agree with what is going on.. but you need to be aware of what the person you are sitting under believes in.. It is not wise to not be "informed"....It is always important to know what you believe in and why you believe it.. so that when times like we are facing these days.. you can deterimine if something is "Bible" or it is just a personal opinion.. or if it is the person you are sitting under the minstry of.. just straying away from what we were taught in years gone by to be "Bible truths"..

dizzyde · #22 10-10-2007, 02:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Jeanie

Isn't there more important things that a pastor should be concerned with, rather than making sure his congregation is informed on what new resolution is passed?

IDK, there is so much going on in a life of a church and its members, perhaps church politics is low on the totem pole with some pastors.

jmho..

I agree 100%, if our pastor got up and started talking about UPC politics from the pulpit, most of our people wouldn't have a clue what he was talking about. It just isn't part of what is going on, on the local level, our people are working for revival. The few who would understand what he was talking about, already have the info.

Elizabeth · #23 10-10-2007, 02:15 PM

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Originally Posted by dizzyde

I agree 100%, if our pastor got up and started talking about UPC politics from the pulpit, most of our people wouldn't have a clue what he was talking about. It just isn't part of what is going on, on the local level, our people are working for revival. The few who would understand what he was talking about, already have the info.

Well it looks like to me your pastor's priorities are in the right place---plus like you said those who understand already knows.

With EVERYTHING on the internet these days its hard NOT to be informed

dizzyde · #24 10-10-2007, 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Jeanie

Well it looks like to me your pastor's priorities are in the right place---plus like you said those who understand already knows.

With EVERYTHING on the internet these days its hard NOT to be informed

Right!!!!

The Mrs · #25 10-10-2007, 02:24 PM

When you have been taught to live a certain way, according to certain principles, and rules put in place within UPC guidelines, then the ministry decides to make some changes, and uses a rule that became effective almost 20 years earlier, it just doesn't make for the best of situations.

I think the concern I saw was that some in the congregation felt a little betrayed at worst, or just a bit disillusioned at best, toward the ministry. Of course there were some that just didn't care.

The Mrs · #26 10-10-2007, 02:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Jeanie

Well it looks like to me your pastor's priorities are in the right place---plus like you said those who understand already knows.

With EVERYTHING on the internet these days its hard NOT to be informed

Unless of course you come from a congregation that discourages you from the use of the internet, or going to meetings outside of your district.

Elizabeth · #27 10-10-2007, 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by The Mrs

Unless of course you come from a congregation that discourages you from the use of the internet, or going to meetings outside of your district.

I dont go to that kind of church--

seguidordejesus · #28 10-10-2007, 04:08 PM

My pastor was a little surprised I knew two days after it happened

Esther · #29 10-10-2007, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by SoCaliUPC

The truth is.....

You just belong to a church whose pastor is involved in a ministerial fellowship. The impact is more with him than the individual saints. You will find very few pastors, IMO, who will get up and share with their congregation the politics of the organization in which they belong to.

The pastor I grew up under said the church paid his way and he felt he owed it to them to tell them what was going on.

We are in a new generation of everything is a secret.

USED to we knew when the church across town was having revival. NOT so now.

Not really sure why all this has changed. I personally don't think it is for the better.

Coonskinner · #30 10-10-2007, 04:36 PM

I never, ever, ever talk about the political junk of the UPC from the pulpit.

I pastor people who wouldn't have any idea who Kenneth haney even is.

I am a member of the UPC.

They aren't.