Our church service today focused on a ministry called Reflections. Reflections is a supportive bible study for women who have had an abortion. The service started out with this amazing video interviewing women in the ministry, telling there stories of how the abortion impacted their life and how healing through the love of Jesus has changed their life. Trust me, the video was really, really good.
Of course not to be outdone, our Pastor then gets up to undo all the impact this video had on our congregation.
He leads off with "the official position of the church is abortion is a sin. The official position of God is abortion is a sin". I seriously couldn't believe he started with that. He sort of made up for it by saying "the good news is that Jesus forgives and still loves you". Which I totally believe but by then the train was slowly coming off the track. Our pastor could have gone up and dismissed everyone because the video was so clear in it's message. However, our pastor Michael Scott would not leave well enough alone. He decided it was best to tag a song at the end of his sermon just to bring it all home. The song was so terrible. It was a contemporary christian top 40 song that happened to have words in it that reflected the pastor's semi-good message. It felt like watching the goodness of Shawshank Redemption and then as the credits roll you play Michael Bolton's "Said I loved you but I lied".
I told my friend that our pastor is like Michael Scott, and our congregation is like Jan Levinson Gould. They've know it's wrong, but feel, at some point, they need to give into their urges.
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