Week 10: Church Fight Melissa

Week 10: Church Fight

Interviewed Jil Mazellan on 02/11/09

Two men who happened to be board members at the church were ready to fist fight in a church meeting over a woman in the church. The pastor of the church had been counseling this woman and having inappropriate relations with him. After the meeting was over the church ended up slitting because the woman was an elder in the church and half of the church thought the pastor should have been forgiven for his actions and given back his position and the other half said no. The pastor had been with several vulnerable women in the church and many people were affected by it. In the end the pastor resigned, even though he wanted his position back, the church let him go. In this circumstance I think the church did the right thing in not letting the pastor stay on staff. Despite the church splitting, one really can’t help what people actually decided to stay and leave. Perhaps a church meeting could have been held to dry to address some of the concerns of the people who left the church, in an attempt to get them to stay. In any case, the situation played out how it did and I think it’s good that the pastor wasn’t accepted back into his position.