A Soprano's Scratchpad

Friday, September 29, 2006

WWJD?

An anonymous friend of mine wrote recently about a struggle with his church. I thought I would post an excerpt here to see how other Christ-followers would respond in this situation.

"We've tolerated the situation to this point because we love our church... its scholastically rich and faithful messages, even if tweaked by one or two sentences of political afterthought that we choose to ignore... its people who practice what they preach in giving, and the warm, friendly nature of the people. Yet, we can't tolerate it anymore, and we've we've reached the point where doing nothing is being intellectually dishonest. We've got to do something.

Do we speak to the pastors about our concerns and thereby "out" ourselves as Republicans and/or conservatives? Yes, outing oneself as a "re-pug" in is more stigmatized than outing oneself as GLBT. The pastors would probably keep quiet. If they didn't or someone overheard, such word would spread like wildfire. Since a bunch of colleagues go to our church, I would be endangering some income that I receive, as word would also spread similarly through that community and would endanger my membership in the <> union. Also, good luck finding a church anywhere in the area that doesn't wax liberal. The Catholic churches in the area even openly oppose the pope on several crucial issues (gay marriage, abortion, communion to those who support either, etc.). The few evangelical churches in our area are so noxiously to the other extreme, spending so much time on news topics in their sermons, that faith is almost ignored altogether... no great option there."

Please share your thoughts. What would you do in this situation?

1 Comments:

  • At 10/18/2006 7:10 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    I would enter the wilderness. I believe Jesus would too.

     

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