I Was Fired for My Preaching
“I will never forget the phone call from the chairman of the search committee informing me that the church had overwhelmingly voted to call me as their next senior pastor…. Three years later, I received another unforgettable call while on vacation: a significant number of families within the church were demanding my removal.” - 9 Marks
OK, yes, it was horrible luck to be in a church where the traditions of men were more important than the Word of God, yes--and I would assume he did some soul-searching asking himself "how did I miss this? Is there anything I could have or should have done to figure this out earlier?".
But that said, I am reminded of a work situation I used to have--I was discussing some of the things that had been done there a few years after being let go at that place, and the person I was talking to--a fellow quality guy--told me that I'd been very lucky to be let go before the things they were doing attached themselves firmly to my name and made me unemployable.
In the same way, if a church is firmly devoted more to the words of men than the Word of God, he was lucky to be sent on his way before they had their talons into him too firmly.
(side note; for that job, I remember interviewing with a VP there and thinking "interesting guy, but can I trust him?"....within a year, I learned the hard way the answer was an emphatic NO. Perhaps I should have trusted my gut there...)
Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.
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