i’m batting 1.000 in recent months in how not to deal with people in the correct way. it’s funny really, you put into practice things that you’re told to do in college and things that you read in books but for some reason or another they’re just not the right things… and you’re the idiot.
some of you may remember my first colossal mistake in which i dubbed myself the ‘faithless wonder’. well now i have no idea what’s wrong with me… and maybe that’s the problem–i don’t know. allow me to explain. recently at church a person came up to me to ask me a couple of questions. sure enough, i obliged. the first one was a rather simple biblical question that i was able to fly through with ease. the second one, on the other hand, was not. i stood there and listened to the biblical question to which was something that i’d never heard in my entire life and to which i had no answer… so, i responded with what seemed to have been the worst answer ever. ‘i don’t know.’ this person looked at me quizzically and with great concern and all seriousness said, ‘but you’re the pastor.’Â
dumbfounded with their response i said, ‘i can look it up for you and get back to you this weekend if you’d like.’Â
‘ok.’ the person said with the strangest of looks on their face–it was a look that said, ‘this guy doesn’t know jack! why do i even come here?’
sure enough, i looked up the answer and looked for the person during the weekend services to no avail. i guess answering ‘i don’t know’ is the worst of all answers if you’re a pastor. the moral of the story… don’t listen to anything you learned in college, or anything you’ve read about pastoring. the hard truth is that as a pastor you know everything… and when you don’t, just make something up. 
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- the faithless wonder…
- no fear in 2006? i’m in!
- home sweet home
- For all the pastors out there…
- driscoll & women.
