Walk it with utmost care; otherwise, if you hinge your salvation on someone else’s walk, you will land with a thud.
Whatever you do, know that your pastor is just a human being used by God regardless of his or her flaws. Once you reconcile yourself with the fact that they too face temptation, lack, hurt, discouragement and the difference is in how they respond to that, you will learn to cut them some slack and work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
You will abandon church and Christianity altogether, if you are not careful. I had to reconcile myself with the fact that men and women of God can also lie, lose their tempers or not be as charitable as you would expect.
I have heard stories of servants in the house of God being physically abused by the pastors they serve under, or other cases where a pastor triggered insecurities by calling someone ugly, etc.
But once you know that salvation is a very personal journey, you will also know where to draw the line and move on as seasons and reasons roll by. If your pastor abandons his wife and home for a concubine, will you stay or will you go?
Those are the decisions spiritual maturity will help you with, if your walk with God is a personal, intimate one, and not tied to anyone else’s walk, stumble or fall. I don’t know what I would do if a pastor physically assaulted me!
But apparently, where this happens, ministers stay on – that is how they have chosen to walk their salvation journey, sadly. In the one instance our Lord Jesus Christ ‘lost it’ according to the Bible, he upended tables and angrily dispersed people who had turned His temple into a market.
Not once does the Bible say that He slapped a disciple or angrily shoved a follower. Contrarily, it is Jesus who suffered humiliation at the hands of man. I once saw a video of a pastor in Hoima flogging all the ministers in church.
And they made a queue to receive their share! Now, I don’t know what that can be even described as, but please learn from church and from your pastor how to draw closer to God, in order to perfect your personal relationship with Him; don’t start seeing the pastor as God, instead. Before you know it, you will be deep into a cult.
