https://ubcentral.org/2009/07/17/our-task-over-the-past-four-years/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=our-task-over-the-past-four-years News From The United Brethren in Christ Church Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:31:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://ubcentral.org/2009/07/17/our-task-over-the-past-four-years/comment-page-1/#comment-172 Sat, 18 Jul 2009 04:25:14 +0000 http://ubcentral.org/?p=607#comment-172 Coming into the church I heard this message and was encouraged. At this year’s conference the bishop stated that if there was one thing he could do for the pastors before leaving he would surgically place a steel rod in their backs. In addition our director of Healthy Church Ministries stated that Christians are some of the meanest people he has encountered in some of the churches he has visited. This doesn’t say much for our Pastoral leadership and it doesn’t say much for our congregations either. What has happened to great leadership and what has happened to our Christian love for each other? It bugs and frustrates me to hear people complain about how the new second service we are starting here is going to interfere with their Sunday school time. It bugs me and frustrates me to hear people more concerned about what they want and not what may reach a lost persons. I guess I am going to accept that steel rod but lead in a way that doesn’t represent those mean Christians. I am going to love the people God has entrusted to me and lead them where I know God wants them to be. They may get mad and bark at me, but I have my steel rod and I come equipped with the love of Jesus. I hear you two guys and as you leave know that at least one Pastor has heard and accepted the challenge.

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