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“A husband and wife team of pastors from Eden Prairie, Minnesota, are now facing tough questions after selling their longtime church to developers then splurging on a million dollar luxury lakefront home while telling their members that God now wants them to worship in ‘micro churches’ held in their homes.” - Christian Post

Discussion

Wed, 09/11/19

“We will no longer be your pastors. We’ll be your apostles over smaller works…”

All you need to know right there.

Wed, 09/11/19

“Their” church and “their” people. How many times have you heard that is pastor so and so’s church when referring to a certain church in a community rather than using the name of the church followed by pastored by so and so?

Wed, 09/11/19

That’s how far my home is from the (former) church building, per Google Maps, yet I’ve never heard of the church before.

Wed, 09/11/19

….is why your pastors should not be the sole trustees of the church property. I have to wonder what other signs they gave that things were not well there.

Side note per Larry’s comment: my former house in Chaska is about midway between the former church and the couple’s new home. I also had never heard of it despite driving by it quite often back in the day. Worth noting as well is that culturally, Waconia at least was a long way from Eden Prairie, despite it being only a 20 minute/half hour drive. It’s almost like the couple is running away.

Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.

Wed, 09/11/19

[Larry Nelson]

That’s how far my home is from the (former) church building, per Google Maps, yet I’ve never heard of the church before.

I deliver mail in Eden Prairie and I’ve never even heard of the church.