I don't get it!

[Hope 98]

How is this happening again?

I felt so safe! I believed that there was progress! I talked about the hardest issues and thought there was some understanding.

For a pastor to disagree with our decision is one thing. Human beings will always find things to disagree with. But do they recognize the implication that their title makes some folks think that they MUST be right? Sometimes, even themselves?

Only today did it hit me, though hubby may not have mentioned it last week, that the pastor called our decision "unchristian", and suggested that when we pray about it we will change our minds. Did he really think we would make this kind of a decision without taking it up with God in some prayerful way?

How far a jump is it from an "unchristian" decision to losing our salvation?

All these emphatic judgmental words! We offered to leave rather than cause conflict in the church, but he said "we're not rejecting you". Really now - it was hard to tell, and harder to believe.

Hubby thinks that if we were told we don't have to leave, it's over. We can stay and it's all good.

I don't know about that...

Would you stay?