No, It's Not That Easy!

 NO, IT'S NOT THAT EASY!

Today I saw a post from someone on Facebook that said: "How easy it is to be a "pastor" when they give you a finished work, with sheep that you didn't earn, in places that someone else got. But to give birth to it and suffer it from scratch, not everyone can do it!"

LET ME EXPLAIN SOMETHING ABOUT THAT:

It's not very easy, in fact it's not easy at all when they give you a finished work and with sheep. Those who have been in that position know it. You go to people who don't know you; if someone was there before who for them was very good, they expect you to be the same or better, if they took the previous one from them without their wanting it, they are going to attack you with everything, and you are going to have to fight whether to "win them over" or preach the truth.

My mother (my father's pastor wife) said that she preferred to go for new people because people who already have knowledge have more "habits"

I also had to join a very small group and the people had "habits" and strange beliefs, well really they were heresies, never corrected and then the horrible attack began: "we were fine, nobody ever corrected us anything and now here you are, leave us alone!"

At least I had to deal with some people who were forced to take off their shoes to pray because, according to what they told me, God had given them a word that they were "barefoot." In addition, they had a person who had convulsions due to a brain problem and after the convulsions he would become delirious and speak random words and every time that happened someone would appear who they called "the scribe." This person had a notebook where they wrote down everything that this person said in the middle of his delirium and they took it as "irrefutable word of God."

I explained to them that this person had just had a convulsion and what he said was delirium. I also asked them if they filtered through the Bible those "revelations" that the person said while he was delirious and they told me no, because the Bible says that "eye has not seen nor ear heard"

There were many other things, but that was really the "MOST, MOST" as they say around here, because it showed me extreme blindness. Everyone knew the diagnosis of the person who was having convulsions.

So there is the struggle between letting them do what they want and live the gospel as they want because the others allowed it or obeying what the Bible says and teaching them the truth.

So if you want to win them over you have to preach to them the things that you preached to them, as they preached them even if you know that they are lies or misrepresentations of Bible verses.

The other option is to do things "little by little" as a pastor in a similar situation advised me, but it didn't seem like a very good idea when I saw that the pastor, after putting everything off, in the end converted to them for his own well-being.

And if it is a church that already has an established leadership, ah well.

It is very, very strong. And above all, understanding that when you arrive at a place or you are sent because something was wrong, when you try to correct some people are going to leave because it is logical -no one likes changes, especially if they were comfortable as they were before- so if someone leaves, they label you as useless because people have already started to leave.

(And as an aside, the truth is that a church in heresy is better to end than to continue harming each one who arrives)

I, after what I have experienced, prefer a thousand times to start from scratch, much less stress! You don't have to deal with religious people or libertines who don't care about biblical truths but about their religious comfort.

I know this because my parents started from scratch, and the difference is huge from when my parents started with people with very little or no knowledge to when it was my turn.

I remember that once before starting the sermon, I said "the sermon is about xxxx" And one from his seat said in a loud voice: "I've already heard hundreds of sermons about that, let's see what you bring"

WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL WITH WHAT WE THINK!!!

NOT EVERYTHING IS AS EASY AS OUR MIND ASSUMES!