After my Church split up and nobody wanted anything to do with each other, My parents and I changed churches. We kinda went undercover/anti social because of how bad things got at our old church. The truth is, we think that my dad got blamed by the pastor for some of the financial problems the church was facing. They couldn't afford to add onto the building but they felt that God wanted them too. My dad just merely told them that if it is what God wants them to do then they should do what God wants. They put out a fleece, and prayed to God saying "If you want us to move forward with this, then have x amount of money come in by x time" And It appeared that God answered that prayer by bringing in x amount of money. by x time. Then someone wanted them to do a feasibility study which was going to cost the church too much money to pay for it. That is why my dad went to God in prayer, and shared with them the scriptures He did. At the same time He was not the man in charge of making these financial decisions nor did He front line the building project. All the front lining was done by the Head pastor. All the choices was made between the Head pastor and the board. My dad did not serve on the board, He only did what what was asked of him. The Head pastor had put Him in charge of discipleship. In other words He was just the associate pastor, to whom was given the rank of giving out spiritual advice. But everything was filtered and double checked by the Head Pastor. When things began to go sideways, most of the board and many of the church workers and teachers blamed the Head Pastor. They didn't feel He was always being honest about things... Then things really got sticky. The DS of that denomination was called in to check up on things. The intention was for Him to come in and evaluate the situation. To much of everyone's surprise, He came to the special meeting saying "I just want everyone to know I'm on the Head Pastor's side" My dad did not attend this meeting, He really wanted to stay out of this nightmare. After two meetings were held, a large number of the works told my Dad they are leaving the Church. My Dad didn't know what to tell them... He asked the DS what He should do, and the DS advised Him to step down. That is why we left that Church. The impact it had on me wasn't good. In that mess, I lost all my Church friends, and I have never recovered anything. Soon after that I got into a late night Janitorial work for a School. With no way to rebuild my real life friendships and I had to switch that over to the Internet. Most of you have already read about Learning Disability and some of my other issues, that I'm also dealing with, so I don't want to go into those things here. So far I haven't been able to get enough of my issues solved so that I could get out and make real friends in real life. But if my parents could get their issues solved, then they could be helpful to me getting my issues solved, or at least worked around.
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