As you may recall, we found a new church that we really liked. That said, we were on the fence about returning because the lead pastor had made a comment that we felt was derogatory towards another religion.
Since we were supposed to meet some new friends for dinner after the next service, we decided to go through with one more visit.
Lo and behold, during the opening commentary, the pastor's wife made the same, stoopid joke.
Mr. Case elbowed me and whispered, "Enough is enough. We're done here."
Truth be told, we did attend a third time. On Christmas Eve we went and brought my family simply because we really wanted to go to church and it was the only place we knew of and were certain of the special service times.
Needless to say, we won't be returning. If our friends ask, we will likely explain why we don't feel comfortable attending. And in the meantime, I am definitely going to email the pastor and let him know that the joke shared between him and his wife is tasteless at best.
I know it is not my place to judge the pastor and his wife, certainly as a Christian I should know better. But at the end of the day I feel the joke itself is un-Christian-like and I can't buy into someone's sermon if I disagree with them on an issue such as this.
The good news is, you can throw a pebble and hit ten churches so it shouldn't be too hard to find someplace new. Frankly, we're excited to start looking!
2 comments:
Good luck! You know the doors are always open at our church. Hope you find a place that you feel the spirit and grow.
Good luck finding a new place! I don't think it's judging, necessarily, to think his comment was out of line. You simply don't appreciate the type of humor that would degrade another religion, or take a cheap shot at someone else. It's hard to take a sermon as inspiring when the person has to lower themselves to making a joke about something like that. It's like the old mantra - if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all!
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