Firing the pastor?

[Mathew Enoch Mount]

Hello,

Are you talking about firing the pastor at your church? Do you want
some consultation of the subject? Perhaps after watching the
following two videos, you will feel better informed on the subject and
more able to arrive at a confident conclusion.

Videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW1eC29MoEc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no7fbOCp16I

Also see How to Select a new Pastor.
http://voices.yahoo.com/how-select-pastor-5447051.html?cat=31

Thank you,

Mathew Enoch Mount
Mathew...@gmail.com

[ShuutokuTentei]

Some years ago while attending a rather old, but affluent downtown Methodist church in Beaumont, Texas I was faced with a most disconcerting dilemma.  In the midst of Sunday school class a person came into the room exhorting everyone to take a new church survey either by picking one up, or going on line.  When I asked the purpose of the survey I was told it was to help find a new direction for the church.  Initially, the survey sounded pretty reasonable.  Once online I could clearly see that the survey was skewed to pigeon hole people into deciding whether they liked the pastor or not.  When I brought this fact up at the next Sunday school meeting, I was met with indignant animosity, as I asked if such was the “Christian” thing to do?  I asked if anyone sat down with the Pastor to sort out, and resolve any problems or conflicts?  A rather assertive but curt voice spoke and said, “We tried that now were doing this!”  

You see what it all came down to is the fact that there were to many gaps in the pews and no bodies to fill them.  Of course that was my last day in Sunday school, as I wanted no part of a lynch mob mentality.  Ultimately, I left, and the Pastor was gone soon after.  I still have a lot of thoughts about the thousands and thousands of dollars the church spent in contract with an outside group of “Professional Christians” to turn the church around.  They needed to fill the cold pews with warm seats, and hot wallets.  Most of all I sometimes have a difficult time identifying with such groups of good Christian people.  Its not so much I feel more righteous than they or less a sinner.  No not at all.  Its because I worry about the people who seek God, want God, and need God then see something like I experienced and say the hell with this, if these are Christians I don’t want any part of them.  Of course we could always blame it on the enemy, isn’t that what Christians always do?