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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: La Crosse, WI
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Last night at the church communication team meeting, we got a new member. The Pastor's son-in-law, he is only 21 or so and a christian for almost a year. I asked him to be an usher 4 weeks ago and he has served twice. He tells our Pastor that he wants to be a preacher, and is taking seminary classes on-line. That does not qualify him to be a deacon in any church I have ever been any part of. I am on the verge of turning in my key and quitting the church.
There was a lot of silence from the other team members during the meeting, so I doubt I am not the only one that feels this way. I have been born again for over 30 years and it is only just now I have become a deacon (I should explain that the communication team is what would be the equivalent of deacons in another church). This kid is not even a declared member of the church. I have been a member of the church (which has been in existence for 4 years) for 2 years, and I am Lead Usher. Thanks for letting me vent.
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Join Date: Mar 2011
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I know a woman, an old boss, who became some sort of clergy online. She married a young couple, and I went to that wedding. The whole thing was odd to me. Well, they were all pretty odd in their own rights.
I'm not religious, but I see what you mean, fargon. |
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To shreds, you say?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet!
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#7669 |
Doctor Wtf
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Badelaide, Baustralia
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Whu? A gunman on campus? Da-a-ad, you woke me up for that?
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#7670 |
Only looks like a disaster tourist
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: above 7,000 feet
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I knew a woman,
Lovely in her bones. When small birds sighed She would sigh back at them. Isn't that bigamy? Or bigaher? Or something? |
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#7671 |
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Join Date: Mar 2011
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She officiated the wedding. I might have been less uncomfortable had it been a freaky deaky three way wedding!
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To shreds, you say?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet!
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Where's that Kathleen Madigan bit about attending a wedding where the woman is marrying a goat?
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#7673 |
polaroid of perfection
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
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My 17 yo neice is 4 months pregnant.
With twins. She's keeping them. I'm not directly affected, but the family is in mourning. They'll all come round of course, but it's wailing and gnashing of teeth today. I think she's ill-prepared and foolish, but once they're born she'll have babies she couldn't imagine living without. I'm trying to be the voice of reason, but it's not going down well (I don't understand apparently, because I don't have children). So I've come up to log on as my bro has fixed the router. Forgive me if I immediately log off again and just go hibernate.
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#7674 |
UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
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Dang, Sundae, that sucks, but like you say, not really anything you can do but make the best of it. Is the dad gonna stay around, or is he gone already?
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We have to go back, Kate!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Yorkshire
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Is the dad that older bloke she was with?
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trying hard to be a better person
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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Sometimes young Mums make fantastic Mums, even if they don't seem like they would be.
With a bit of support from her family and lots of love, she will prevail. So will the kids. She's chosen a hard road for herself, but she must feel that she can do it, so the best thing for the family to do is get on with the job of helping her as much as they can.
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Hand-of-Kindness Extender
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Suffolk, UK
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Give her this pamphlet:
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To shreds, you say?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet!
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We have to go back, Kate!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Yorkshire
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I suspect that's Sundae's position on it too. Trouble is there's nowt quite like a family for ramping things up into a crisis if at all possible. Which is one of the key reasons I stay the fuck off facebook. Lot of my extended family on there.
@ Sundae: things will calm down soon enough. Something else will quietly become the thing everybody's getting heated over. @ fargon: that's really horrible. Try not to let it devalue your own achievements within the organisation though. You earned it, he got handed it. But that means you did earn it and that matters way more than the fact he didn't.
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