Minister of Music tazes pastor, another woman stabbed during fight at church
… and I thought I’d seem some ugly church conflicts (before my time at Grace)
Views expressed are always my own and not my employer's, my church's, my family's, my neighbors', or my pets'. The house plants have authorized me to speak for them, however, and they always agree with me.
Don’t taze me bro!
At “New Welcome Baptist Church”, no less…
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Greg Long, Ed.D. (SBTS)
Pastor of Adult Ministries
Grace Church, Des Moines, IA
Adjunct Instructor
School of Divinity
Liberty University
Behind my innate fear of church business meetings! :)
A number of years ago, a local news-station in the Detroit area ran a story about a dispute in a church. A “secret” congregational meeting of the pastor’s opponents had voted him out, and called a new pastor. The new pastor wasn’t told his call was from a fraction of the congregation. The rest of the church and the old pastor wasn’t told the meeting ever occurred. The next Sunday, two pastors showed up. A congregational fight broke out (which for some reason was available on video-tape). Sometime around the charge of an elderly, unbrella-wielding lady attacking a deacon, both pastors left simultaneously. In the end, a judge had to “help” the congregation decide what their by-laws had to say about the matter.
I find stories like this one and the opening post here refreshingly honest compared with a few meetings I’ve been in over the years. [Yes, it’s sarcasm].
I find stories like this one and the opening post here refreshingly honest compared with a few meetings I’ve been in over the years. [Yes, it’s sarcasm].
It’s voting’s fault. If these people didn’t vote, they wouldn’t have problems.
[Shaynus] It’s voting’s fault. If these people didn’t vote, they wouldn’t have problems.Keep in mind … the tazer and the tazee were elders!
[Jim Peet]Never let details get in the way of a good point, Jim ;-)[Shaynus] It’s voting’s fault. If these people didn’t vote, they wouldn’t have problems.Keep in mind … the tazer and the tazee were elders!
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