Today I finished orientation with Werner Enterprizes and will be assigned a trainer in a couple of days. Then I will have to accomplish 275 driving hours and pass a driving test to be assigned my own truck and start to work. I've been bunking with a man from Baton Rouge and come to find out his momma and sisters attended Bethany for a while and this guy has been running from the Lord. He knows that we are together for a couple of days coz he has a momma that is praying for him. He hasn't been to open to recieve Gods love but the seed is being sown into his heart. This is a different mission field but the goal is still the same, win souls and make disciples. Isn't it a joy to serve others?
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I've thought a very long time about everything that has gone on. I've been at this church for what seems like forever. I was under Chester, you, and now these new people. I have learned each time to expect nothing. I no longer expect for you or anyone else to do what God says, because you obviously do not care at times.
ReplyDeleteGod wanted to do so much, Patrick. He really did. But you insisted on putting in your two cents. Not just you, but your wife, and various other leaders of this church. Why is it that God was never allowed to BE GOD in this church?
I don't understand the crap that went on, nor do I care to understand it. I just want to know why God was never allowed to move and why everyone felt they needed to control what was going on, when it went on, and for how long?
You remember the old days, when church services would start at 6 p.m. and not end until 4 or 5 a.m. That was God working! That was God MOVING!
Now, people apologize for keeping us until 12:30. And this pastor is letting us right right at noon.
Wow...God's given an hour and a half from the church....FROM THE CHURCH!
I'm sorry, I don't want to direct any of this at you. It isn't about you. I know that a lot of people read your blog, and word gets around about the comments you recieve. Maybe this word will get around and make people think. I don't intend on changing anyone, I just want to be people think.
I want them to think before they start to say how great a pastor's messege was. About what a good word he had. I say I don't care about the word the PASTOR has to say, I just want to know if GOD MOVED.
I remember a pastor once saying it would have been nice for someone to come up to him after a service to tell him he "had a good word."
You know what? If a sinner comes up to you and says "Well, that was a good word." The job obviously wasn't done.
We're not here to make people feel COMFORTABLE.
Why does it say we're a peculiar people? Peculiarity means you're strange, you're different. The strange and different MAKE PEOPLE UNCOMFORTABLE! We don't allow their sin to keep going on. We don't ALLOW BREAKS IN THE SERVICE FOR PEOPLE TO SMOKE! WE DON'T DO NOT ALLOW SIN ON OUR HOLY GROUND!
Or what we CLAIM is holy. Jerry Cooke allows his people a break to smoke.
Why not a break for a woman to sell her body?
Why not a break for a beer? BYOB to church, that would get people flocking, huh?
Why not a break for a meth addict?
SIN is SIN.
I'm not here to make people comfortable. I'm here to make sure they're going to heaven. If you have to ruffle some feathers and not just "step on some toes" but STOMP ON SOME FEET than SO BE IT!
I REFUSE to ACCEPT ANY FORM OF SIN NOR WILL I ENABLE IT!
So, like I said, I'm sorry Patrick. I don't intend on hurting you any further. As sure as you hurt this congregation, I'm sure I've hurt you also. However, I have asked for your forgiveness, and everyone elses.
You did not. You ask a few people, but your sin was against the whole, not the few.
I'm sorry, once again.
Goodbye.
TO THE PERSON WHO WROTE THE FIRST BLOG. WHY DON'T YOU SEEK GODS FACE AND GET OUT OF PASTOR PATS FACE.
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