I have been writing some VERY critical things against the pastors among our IFB "denomination". I use denomination loosely, but anyway...I'll use it.
I just want you, as a reader, to know that failure to handle a situation scripturally, is not fixing the problem....it is masking it. If you leave without addressing the problem, you could be hurting more people than you "have been hurt".
YOU have just as much obligation to fix the problem than the Pastor. Because YOU have come to the truth on the subject (not my opinions btw...but ACTUAL EVIDENCE) and have done NOTHING about it. You turned and ran. IF the situation is bad enough to leave over, it is bad enough to fight over.
DO NOT do the cowardly thing and leave.... pulling others with you. I am not going to be guilty of insisting rebellion or a riot. However, there are SCRIPTURAL ways of handling it.
First of all, ARE YOU USING THIS AS AN EXCUSE FOR REBELLION?
Did these posts give you the license, in your own mind, to go where the grass is greener? To tell the pastor exactly how you feel? To get even with something he has preached hard about?
Secondly, EXACTLY HOW MUCH TIME have you spent in prayer over it? If you haven't bathed this situation in prayer, you are not acting out of principle...but out of passion. Check yourself....you might be covered in humanism.
Thirdly, WHAT BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES are supporting your decision?
"Well, I read your blog/note...and....." is NOT going to cut mustard before the judgment seat of Christ in heaven when YOU are judged EVERY MAN (person) for the things done in YOUR body...whether good or bad.
Finally, Lets just say you are totally just in your realization...that you have a shameful shepherd.
What are you going to do about it?
DO NOT...I REPEAT...DO NOT do this:
http://timd1011.blogspot.com/2009/09/censoring-controlling-and-consuming.html
