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cartoon: hello?

Posted in humour by nakedpastor on the October 21st, 2008

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  1. Greg MacKinnon said, on October 21st, 2008 at 9:48 am

    LMAO

  2. PK said, on October 21st, 2008 at 9:51 am

    Amen

  3. Daniel said, on October 21st, 2008 at 10:24 am

    This made me sad. I’ve been there, no he didn’t hang up but it was just as obvious.

    Back when I was still going to school, I had asked our then pastor if he would read something and then sit for an interview for a paper. He agreed. A week later at an unrelated gathering, the day we were to talk, he pulls out the text I copied for him and says something like, “[waves it in my face] hey, are we still doing this? I have not looked at it yet.”
    Paper was due the next day, so I did the “good Christian thing” and made up answers for him that made him look like a total idiot for the professor… I got an A.

  4. kim said, on October 21st, 2008 at 10:40 am

    maybe the pastor has keeled over in shock that someone wants to get to know him just for himself (or herself)? David posted a few weeks ago about this I recall.

  5. steve martin said, on October 21st, 2008 at 10:49 am

    If I wanted to talk to my Pastor over the phone regarding the total righteousness we have in Christ alone, he’d be with me on the phone for an hour.

    If I wanted to shoot the shit and talk about baseball he might give me 30 seconds.

    I know other pastors where it would be the exact opposite.

    All this tells me is that they are human and sinners too.

  6. Bill said, on October 21st, 2008 at 1:56 pm

    Some months back we were visiting another possible church to call home. I was actually a bit excited to visit this fellowship, It looked like they might be alive. A newish building, signs on growth posted on the hallway walls, seemingly outreach programs. This stood in stark contract to the last 3 we had visited that obviously were doing very poorly.

    When the preacher (I cant bring myself to call him a pastor) got up and began preaching he noticed some did not have Bibles. You might have thought the poor misguided souls had forgot their cloths for all the fuss he made. Then he make the statement that He should be allowed to spend all of his time in study and prayer and the congregation shouldn’t expect him to minister to the daily needs of the congregation.

    The toon is DEAD ON! For many places we have been. I’m sure there are many “pastors” out there. I just haven’t met one in a while.

  7. Bill said, on October 21st, 2008 at 2:04 pm

    Steve,
    I wouldn’t give you 5 minutes about baseball either. Sorry nothing personnel but I just am not into all that sports hype. Football, baseball, soccer, hockey, you might just as well want to talk about the latest view in Vogue about ladies cloths. It just isn’t in my world. Actually I’m more put off that sports are used as examples from the pulpit. I cant relate.

    I would venture to guess most “pastors” avoid that cup of coffee because they are used to it being a trap. Someone is about to palm off their ideas about what that ministry is missing or headed in the wrong direction.

    I seriously doubt many pick up the phone and call the pastor just to get to know them.

  8. steve martin said, on October 21st, 2008 at 2:16 pm

    Bill,

    Good points, Bill.

    The point I was attempting to make is that they (pastors) are as different as the rest of us are. There are good and bad, nice and surly, concerned and unconcerned. And combinations of all those traits.

    My yardstick is ‘are they being a good steward of the Word’? Are law and gospel being proclaimed? Are the sacraments being administered in good order?

    For me, anything beyond that is a bonus.

  9. kim said, on October 21st, 2008 at 2:56 pm

    I think that if we did pick up the phone and get to know them, instead of looking on them as the deliverers of all our hopes and aspirations for the church we want, we would all be better off.

    Sometimes we put them up on a pedestal, they “disappoint” with their humanity and then we shoot ‘em down.

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  12. Deanna said, on October 21st, 2008 at 5:24 pm

    If it’s a pure- hearted invite, there is nothing I (or my husband) love more!! But when it is wrongly motivated or a trap there’s nothing we hate worse.

    I used to feel bad to say to the person inviting, “is this church related or are we just doing coffee and talking about life?” Now I don’t feel guilty because you know, I don’t believe God wants me to be trapped and so I’ll just ask the person point blank. Why do I do this? Because for years people would ask me to go for lunch or coffee and here’s what I would get once we were there for about 15 minutes talking:

    “Well actually there’s something I’ve been wanting to talk to you about…”

    “Ive been a little upset about…”

    “You offended me 6 months ago when you made this decison…”

    “Your husband hurt my feelings…”

    “I feel you don’t like me because you didn’t shake my hand or hug me two weeks ago…”

    or the ever popular, “I wanted to talk to you about one of your children…”

    Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! For a while this did make me want to say no to all invites but I do realize there are A LOT of pure hearted people out there who don’t try to trap you and just want to spend time together. So I’m not going to punish those people or myself from awesome fellowship just because some people don’t do the right thing. So now I just put them on the spot and ask, “is this just a friendly get together or are you wanting to tell me something?” Solves the problem. If they just wanted to tell me they hate me or have offense toward me, my view is, let’s do it right then and there and get it over with and then have coffee with somebody who really gives a rip about me.

    But as one other commenter said already, this is definitely a reason pastors are skeptical when somebody asks you to get together. You often wonder what strings are attached.

    Blessings from Tampa, FL ~ Deanna

  13. Mimou said, on October 22nd, 2008 at 1:40 pm

    Bill, thanks for pointing out preacher vs. pastor! Deanna, also your point made me think..

  14. Lucas said, on October 22nd, 2008 at 9:07 pm

    I sort of sympathize with the pastor on this one. There are so many people who want a piece of you at a larger church that you literally have NO time for all of them. It’s difficult to know how to respond when the 85th person comes up to you and wants to just ‘talk’ or tell you their life story. It’s a good sentiment from the person and I appreciate it but there’s only so much of me to go around. That’s why we have more than one pastor. But everyone comes up to me as if I’m the Trinity and omnipresent… I love them but have limits…

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