Recently, in my country mega churches via anti Christian journalists have gone under fire for staff burnout. Arise Church was first in line for pushing it’s interns to work ridiculous hours 7 days a week. Among other gripes, they were made to baby sit leadership kids for free, sometimes driving an hour to get to their houses at their own expense. When they complained of being exhausted, they were told they weren’t trusting God enough and to press into him more. There were also reports of sexual harassment. The head Pastor resigned and kind of disappeared. He left behind a bunch of hurt people who are starting a journey I went on that caused nothing but pain.
It’s a whole other story, but in the end, I finally learnt, turning on a church for what it does wrong isn’t the answer and that being the answer to a broken church is what it’s all about. If everyone took the latter perspective the church would be in a very different place the world over.
Church will always attract the very best and very worst of people because of what it stands for. Love. Wherever there are givers there will always be takers and that won’t change, at least not until Jesus returns. Turning on your faith and what defined you will only leave you broken. As Christians we should be stepping up in prayer in hard times not stepping away.
Easier said than done I know.
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