Sunday, August 14, 2011

How would you deal with a pastor who regularly brings up his own intellect & insults that of the congregation?

I need to first say that I love my church home, and nearly everything about it. It's a large, diverse church that's doing a lot of things right. Our pastor is awesome, and I've gotten so much deeper in my walk with Christ since joining the church a year ago, but he does have a problem with ego. On a fairly regular basis, he throws into his messages little remarks about his intellect, level of education and that fact that he's attended three seminaries. He also makes a lot of comments during them like, "you'll get that on the way home," and "that's the uneducated version." Another of his favorites is, "Look at your neighbor and say 'I don't know what that is,' after he's mentioned a term that's generally used by bible scholars. Our church is FULL of very well educated members, so this can be very annoying, and for myself it can totally disrupt a prayerful state of mind and focus on the message. I believe that he's aware of this ego problem, because from time to time he'll pray before speaking that God will help him keep it in check, but more often than not he seems unable to (the pastor, not God LOL). Recently, he's gotten on a real roll, though, as we're going into a mid-week series on unearthing the foundations of the faith. If you were a member, would this bother you? Would you do anything about it?

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