Monday, November 20, 2006

In Heaven, my future career will be obsolete... and I'm for that I am grateful...


So I'm sitting in my Church Law class right now (don't worry, I promise that I'm paying attention-- I'm one of those rare guys who can actually multi-task...) and we're talking about our papers that we just turned in. Basically, the premise of the paper was how we, as legal counselors, would respond to specific sex scandals that rocked a fictitious local church. The paper was supposed to be 10-15 pages long, and it proved to be a rather fun exercise.... I thoroughly enjoyed sitting down, pondering the facts of the case, considering the applicable case rulings and stautory laws, and writing up an analysis and proposal course of action for the church to take. It really interesting and fun.
And then I remembered that it's very real. And all of a sudden it's not so much fun. Pastors fall all the time. And then all hell breaks loose. People's faith is shattered, hope is broken, disillusionment sets in, and suddenly the church faces a whole myriad of potential legal troubles-- negligence, clergy malpractice, the list goes on....
Why am I blogging about this unpleasant subject? Because I wish that topics such as this were purely hypothetical. I wish that secret sin in church leaders was only a nasty theoretical issue that existed only for discussion purposes. I wish it wasn't real.
An elder at Grace Community fell a few years ago. He was a good friend of my dad's. When my dad asked him what happened, how this happened, his reply was "I just got to busy to read my Bible and pray every day."
So my plea to any potential pastors who happen to stumble on this blog: stay pure. Stay strong. Too much rides on your shoulders.
This is the verse I used to open my paper-- I hope it strikes a chord in you the way it does in me:
Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.
--1 Corinthians 10:12

3 Comments:

At Monday, November 20, 2006 8:06:00 PM, Blogger Ben Blakey said...

Steve...I'm so disappointed in you...especially after that conversation we had at dinner.

 
At Wednesday, November 22, 2006 12:58:00 AM, Blogger miriam said...

so it's come to this...blogging in class...

 
At Wednesday, November 22, 2006 4:20:00 AM, Blogger Steve Crawford said...

oooohh, Miriam... don't get me started on doing things in class other than paying attention...

 

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