Might sound a bit simplistic, but I think councils would save themselves a lot of unnecessary conflict if they would just follow Matt. 18. While this doesn't solve all the problems, it would a majority of them. I had a council go to the church visitors instead of to me. Despite the council never having talked to me directly, the council met privately with the church visitors. You can imagine how hurt I was. Hard to work through an issue when it gets to this point. I no longer trusted my council and it wasn't long after this that I left. Since coming to my last charge 7 years ago, it's been wonderful. Can see now how God allowed me to go through that wilderness in order to bring me to green pastures and still waters. Sadly, it almost seems after the way that council treated me, God removed his hand of blessing from them. In hindsight, I don't claim to have handled everything perfectly, but I also believe God doesn't look kindly upon his servants being mistreated.
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Might sound a bit simplistic, but I think councils would save themselves a lot of unnecessary conflict if they would just follow Matt. 18. While this doesn't solve all the problems, it would a majority of them. I had a council go to the church visitors instead of to me. Despite the council never having talked to me directly, the council met privately with the church visitors. You can imagine how hurt I was. Hard to work through an issue when it gets to this point. I no longer trusted my council and it wasn't long after this that I left. Since coming to my last charge 7 years ago, it's been wonderful. Can see now how God allowed me to go through that wilderness in order to bring me to green pastures and still waters. Sadly, it almost seems after the way that council treated me, God removed his hand of blessing from them. In hindsight, I don't claim to have handled everything perfectly, but I also believe God doesn't look kindly upon his servants being mistreated.