A hero that has let you down (letter)
Dear Surge (my old youth pastor),
I want you to understand that I respect you as a human being and a fellow blood bought child of Christ, but not as a servant to Him or a disciple. You gave me my first shot at ministry and I will always appreciate that because it set the course for the rest of my life. To me you were a hero, the man that I looked up to. You had it all, God, a beautiful family, a great ministry, a great theology. And yet the more I learned, the more flawed you became.
I have learned a lot over the years and I look at you and your theology, your faith and I realize that you were a spiritual baby. And it doesn’t make sense to me. You went to bible school. You were an associate pastor. I don’t understand if you just forgot true doctrinal teachings and made your own theology or if you just learned bad theology from the jump. The more I noticed what you had taught in the past in comparison with what your example taught later in life, I realized that you didn’t believe what you were saying. You could have made serious change in our church and yet instead you feared it. As a result you yourself became dismayed when the church plummeted as it did. and you had no idea that you were part of the reason that it all happened. You acted as if you had just been a passenger when you were helping to steer the ship to the depths. You quickly abandoned ship, leaving behind and respect I had for you. All that being said, you will never hear these words come out of my mouth so enjoy your consumer capital driven, poor doctrinal led life.
Sincerely,
your former protege, J.
About Me
- J
- I love writing. If you want to know anything else just ask me or else read up! I have two blogs ("A Pen Itching To Bleed Onto Paper" and "The Rebirth of J"). One of my blogs (A Pen...) is updated more frequently than the other. "The Rebirth” is more of a story I am writing with my life whereas "A Pen" would be my random thoughts past, present, and future in this unfolding journey I call life. If this is your first time reading my blog, please visit Post #2 for the month of April 2008 in my "A Pen" blog archives... Thanks!
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3 comments:
there are so many false preachers and people that completely give the scriptures in the bible a totally diferent meaning from its original meaning *sighs* it's hard to find a 100% pure church these days :/
when in doubt, listen to how god speaks directly to you, not through another. :)
Very interesting letter. Lucky for you that his failure didn't bring you down. Sometimes we loose hope when the ones we look up to cannot succeed.
Missy
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