A youth pastor/ teacher that has a Weblog...
I'm beginning to wonder if writing on this weblog is becoming overly dangerous for me.
For me (and I believe the folks at LT) posting here has a healing quality to it... I believe that it's healthy to work through issues with in community and I have been doing this for two plus years. The danger lies in:
1. People might think that I'm talking specifically about them and have their feelings hurt.
2. People might think that I'm talking about them and use these words against me.
3. People might actually engage in real community with their youth pastor / teacher and his thinking to work through theological ideology.
4. People might come into a certain time frame and make assumptions about the thinking of the teacher/ pastor.

Also.
I think it would be helpful to apologize.
If you have unecesarily thought that I was attacking you personally, then I'm sorry, there has not been any intent to attack any one person.
If you have felt misled by my personal feelings at any given moment while I was writing, then I'm sorry. Everything written on this blog (I can only speak for me) is nothing close to absolute truth, but opinion and perspective on life, life with God, life in ministry and lives lived in faithfullness. Sometimes opinions can hurt others feelings, and in as much as God is not convicting you through these various posts, then I am sorry for unsubstantiated guilt or piling on spiritually.

The folks on this blog are not perfect. We say things from emotion. Some of these posts can be reactionary, when in life the writer most cautioned when speaking to specific situations.
We say things on behalf of others. Much of what I write is actually a response or reaction to something that happened to someone else that I've related to.

So. I trust that if you are reading this you will understand these things.
and that if you don't understand you will ask. in person. not in anonymity, as that violate the spirit of the open and honest questions by real people who are bareing themselves to each other.
thanks

posted by riddle at 5:48 AM | |