Are you a Pastor's Kid?

Are you a pastor's kid?

  • Yes

    Votes: 28 31.5%

  • No

    Votes: 61 68.5%
  • Total voters
    89
@Benisse, I'm the last person you want to ask about that. If I had a choice between marrying a pastor and remaining single my whole life, I would choose to be single. I don't think the benefits outweigh the disadvantages.
 
I don't think I would be a very good pastor's wife, I'm not always that great with people who annoy me, but if I loved him I wouldn't mind trying.
 
Nope, not at all - though I've heard my grandmother originally wanted my dad to be a priest but he had other ideas... of course then he wouldn't have had us kids, so maybe that was a good thing? :p
 
beautiful butterfly

Aravis Kenobi said:
personally, I don't think anybody should wish their child into the ministry.
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There seems to be so much pain in those words. The image I get as I think and pray for you is that of a beautiful butterfly, but one pinned alive in someone's collection...

I know you wrote somewhere that you faithfully pray for your parents; that's really gracious of you. I'll pray for them too, and also for your release and healing from the pressures and feelings weighing so heavy on you. May God give you hope and new heart, and open your eyes to the spiritual gifts he's given you so that you may have eyes to see the Lion with you (as in Prince Caspian or on the island of the Dufflepuds). In His presence is fullness of joy.

The ministry has its particular stresses and challenges and more than its share of heartache. May the Lord be there with you in the midst of all you have gone through and are going through... Someone has said you cannot change the past. That is not exactly true. You can change the past: through the power of forgiveness.
 
I'll pray for you, too. The Devil, Jesus rebuke him, likes nothing better than to do the very thing Isaiah warned us against: making evil appear good and making good appear evil. When our enemy is able to obtain any influence on persons in Christian ministry, he tries to make evil things look good, even "spiritual," in the minds of those ministers. Thus various abuses involving pride, cruelty, treachery, greed, lust and cowardice become entrenched within churches and in pastoral families. ("Nowhere do we tempt more successfully than on the steps of the altar," Mr. Lewis imagined Screwtape saying.)

Then comes the part which I believe our enemy enjoys even more. Where gross clerical hypocrisy has planted itself, the ministry of the gospel, an inherently good thing as Jesus intended it....can be made to look evil in lay people's eyes.
 
Benisse said:
There seems to be so much pain in those words. The image I get as I think and pray for you is that of a beautiful butterfly, but one pinned alive in someone's collection...

I know you wrote somewhere that you faithfully pray for your parents; that's really gracious of you. I'll pray for them too, and also for your release and healing from the pressures and feelings weighing so heavy on you. May God give you hope and new heart, and open your eyes to the spiritual gifts he's given you so that you may have eyes to see the Lion with you (as in Prince Caspian or on the island of the Dufflepuds). In His presence is fullness of joy.

The ministry has its particular stresses and challenges and more than its share of heartache. May the Lord be there with you in the midst of all you have gone through and are going through... Someone has said you cannot change the past. That is not exactly true. You can change the past: through the power of forgiveness.
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thanks for that. I appreciate what you said. :)
 
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Lord of Light said:
Well...I'm not a PK...but my mom was...honestly, I may end up the P for my kids, lol....its a long story...:D
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Your comment triggered a memory of mine. When I was in high school my older brother took me aside to have a heart to heart talk. The gist was, you better be careful or else you might end up being a pastor's wife one day!
oops
too late:rolleyes:
 
you know I just dont get it
I would eat my heart out if I could get a guy that was becoming a pastor
I'd be estatic
then being able to start a church and be partly in charge of what goes on in the church
not to mention what I could do in the community
plus being a role model
I'd be thrilled!

I just dont get why being a pastor's kid or marrying one is a bad thing?
 
dayhawk68 said:
you know I just dont get it
I would eat my heart out if I could get a guy that was becoming a pastor
I'd be estatic
then being able to start a church and be partly in charge of what goes on in the church
not to mention what I could do in the community
plus being a role model
I'd be thrilled!

I just dont get why being a pastor's kid or marrying one is a bad thing?
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actually that's kind of why I enjoy being a PK, I know everything that goes on in the church and I have a part in almost everything and I have control over some things or at least I have some input. I also know most of the people in the church :D
 
Trust me, dayhawk, you don't want to know half of what my dad brings home every day. And what I have had to deal with and what I still have to deal with on a daily basis.

Yeah so...you don't want to know a lot of the (excuse my language) crap that goes on in the church. You just don't, and you don't want to be a part of it. Unless you just love being trampled on and stabbed in the back.
 
Aravis Kenobi said:
Trust me, dayhawk, you don't want to know half of what my dad brings home every day. And what I have had to deal with and what I still have to deal with on a daily basis.

Yeah so...you don't want to know a lot of the (excuse my language) crap that goes on in the church. You just don't, and you don't want to be a part of it. Unless you just love being trampled on and stabbed in the back.
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im sorry your church is that way
in fact thats actually REAL life where ever you go
where ever you work
even Starbucks has its gossip and crooks, and stabs in the back

my mom worked on staff at our church and yeah she had to deal with crud ppl threw at her
christians are humans too

but its not like you cant change it
or make it better
attitude goes a long way

there is no such thing as a perfect church
its a Utopia, a no place
but instead of looking at the bad and what gets brought to your doorstep
you can look at it as God working through you to help
in what ever way He can.
it might be mind numbing, but at least God is working through you
what's better than that?
 
I agree with dayhawk..it also depends on how you look at things..theres a lot of good in churches too if you look for it.:)
 
I mean there are churches that are judgemental and legalistic and that call women Jezebel still

and then there are churches that's one big family

then there are the churches that center around teaching, usually really big churches.

it all depends.
 
Every church has cliques. Every church has old gossips. Every church has troublemakers. Every church has people who aren't happy with the pastor, what he's preaching, or the like. Every church has people who hate someone's guts. Every church has people who hold deep and sometimes bitter grudges against each other.

Ya get my drift? No church, no matter how loving or how much of a family-atmosphere, is free from the above reasons. You might think it is, but let me assure, no church is immune.
 
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