"Suspicions Confirmed"
My suspicions were confirmed recently as to why so many churches and people in churches are having the same problems that people not in church have. I was recently talking to a pastor, we were discussing our professions. He was telling me how after years of being a pastor he hit a brick wall, he reached a "burn-out" point. He realized that the reason that this happened was because of some issues that he had not resolved in his past.
In my profession as a faith-based counselor, I understand that unresolved issues carry over into our professional as well as personal lives. While in Seminary classes, I was taught that your unresolved issues will be transferred to your clients. So it is important to first of all recognized that you do have issues and to get them resolved before you begin helping others.
In the case of the pastor, when he hit the brick wall, that is when he started his journey to resolving his issues. His main issue was that when it came right down to it, "He did not believe that God would be there for him." This has always been a suspicion of mine about Christians in general. I reached that conclusion about a year ago, when I started my journey towards my destiny of starting a non-profit and becoming a faith-based or "Christian Counselor". I realized that the reason so many Christians have so many problems, is because they do not believe what they profess to believe. The majority of Christians read the Bible as if it were a mere history book about an ancient civilization. The connection that they have with God is through a pastor or minister. And that is where the problem begins. Because if you have pastors and ministers who do not fully understand God's purpose for them and believe that He is able to do what He says He can do, that "issue" of doubt and unbelief will carry over into the ministry. And that group of people which are under that pastor will be exposed to the same "issue" as the pastor and will not be able to grow and experience God as was intended. Therefore you will have a lot of Christians having all of the same problems that non-Christians or non-faith people are having.
Minnie Patmon-McLaurin
In my profession as a faith-based counselor, I understand that unresolved issues carry over into our professional as well as personal lives. While in Seminary classes, I was taught that your unresolved issues will be transferred to your clients. So it is important to first of all recognized that you do have issues and to get them resolved before you begin helping others.
In the case of the pastor, when he hit the brick wall, that is when he started his journey to resolving his issues. His main issue was that when it came right down to it, "He did not believe that God would be there for him." This has always been a suspicion of mine about Christians in general. I reached that conclusion about a year ago, when I started my journey towards my destiny of starting a non-profit and becoming a faith-based or "Christian Counselor". I realized that the reason so many Christians have so many problems, is because they do not believe what they profess to believe. The majority of Christians read the Bible as if it were a mere history book about an ancient civilization. The connection that they have with God is through a pastor or minister. And that is where the problem begins. Because if you have pastors and ministers who do not fully understand God's purpose for them and believe that He is able to do what He says He can do, that "issue" of doubt and unbelief will carry over into the ministry. And that group of people which are under that pastor will be exposed to the same "issue" as the pastor and will not be able to grow and experience God as was intended. Therefore you will have a lot of Christians having all of the same problems that non-Christians or non-faith people are having.
Minnie Patmon-McLaurin
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