Comments on: Restoration? or… YOU messed up, so we don’t care about you anymore

By: MIchelle

MIchelle — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:55:52 +0000

is this the chris baker that was youth pastor at pbc, porterville

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:21:06 +0000

I lived through this three years ago. My dad had been the pastor at the church for 14 years and he had a moral failing. It was not THE moral failing, but still, he needed to repent and change.
The elders found out Wednesday night. Thursday morning called my dad in and said he had 24 hours to empty his office or they would throw things in the dumpster.
No restoration. No mercy. No love. Nothing that resembled Jesus’s heart.
I wish this was an exception, but it’s not. People are so obsessed with sin and eradicating outward sin in people’s life that they don’t realize the only way you can do that is through the power of Christ changing your heart! It’s like the Pharisees all over again. No rules, no law, no punishment can really change people’s hearts, only God can do that!
It reminds me of Matt. 22:29 when Jesus was criticizing the Sadducees and he said, “You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.”
I believe a major problem in the Church today is simply that: we don’t know the Scriptures and because of that, we don’t recognize God’s power, especially God’s power to change people from the inside out.

By: Red Wine Gums

Red Wine Gums — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:01:46 +0000

I think this is an important issue. It might be partly to do with the fact that people can place a pastor on a pedestal and when the fallen human fails and cracks it shatters our illusions. People like to kick someone when they are down. It’s shameful. The church has many failings but it is because it is made up of fallen people like that pastor who falls off his pedestal.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:08:18 +0000

I do not think that your view is jaded I have seen the same thing.