SNOW DAY

YES!  I remember as a kid hoping and praying for a snow day.  They never canceled school the night before. They would always wait to cancel it after you were wide awake and getting ready to go.  I would imagine our Principle pushing the button on his garage door then getting in to his 4 wheel drive truck with a snow plow and plowing his way to school.  Then saying, "aw it's not that bad"...  I hated that vision.  In my mind if I were Principle I would look out the window the night before and say, "Well it looks like it might snow... Better cancel school."  Then I would sleep in and everyone would like me...  Ha Ha Ha!

Now I am the pastor of a church and people will call the day before and tell me the weather forecast for the week and ask, "do you think we will have church?"  Now I know what that Principle goes through.

 I heard a story about a larger church where  it snowed pretty hard and the person who makes that decision canceled the services.  Well, some lovely couple took it upon themselves to disagree and drive a long distance to prove that they could have had Church.  They went to the decision makers house picked up their newspaper out of the box and hand deliver it to the front door.  Just to prove that the weather was not that bad.
This has never happened to me but if it would I would want to cancel them.

Their is a lack of trust in our leaders, in our decision makers.  Principle you better make the right decision...  Pastor you better make the right decision or we will prove you wrong.

In the secular world you can count on critics.  They lay and wait to find fault.  It seems as though if you bring the leader down, then when you make a mistake you have a reason not to take blame.  I have a friend who is a new this year High School Principle and he is struggling to try and please everyone.

In the church the secular world has crept in, no mercy and grace.  It is so sad when I see pastors being taken for granted.  In the past several years I have watched pastors get so frustrated with people that they have ended up leaving the ministry.  Sometimes people can be so cruel.  The secular world shows it's ugliness in the church.  No one in leadership is perfect just like no person is perfect.

What am I saying?  I guess it is,"All have sinned and fall short of the city of God."  And even though we are not perfect we still are trying to follow the Perfect One.

The subtitle of his blog is Ramblings and that is what this Pastor has done here... Rambled.