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Most people who attend church enjoy their church and their pastor. I don’t have any statistics to prove that; it’s just my assumption. Why would you attend a church you don’t like?
That doesn’t mean that we never get aggravated with our pastor or church leadership. But, can we do so and still honor them? Absolutely.
I wrote a post several months ago on several ways to honor your pastor.
I’ll admit that there are days I have been annoyed by the words of my pastor. If they’re always doing everything just right, then there’s most likely a problem. Let me say this: my pastor is not a people pleaser and I love that about him.

Guess what?
That’s okay…
Do you ever have those moments in your life where someone talks badly about someone in your family? It may be that brother that you just slapped on the back of the head 15 minutes ago. When you hear someone else messing with them, things are different though, right? It’s like this: I can talk about my family, but you can’t. We’ve all done that before I’m sure.
Our spiritual family is just like our family.
I’ve been ticked off at him. It’s ok for me to be. He’s like that annoying big brother that you just want to flick on the forehead in certain moments. Just like family, with time, you move on and get over it.
But…
When others start to put him down, as my grandpa used to say, “Dem are fightin’ words!”
When you start to trash talk the man who has been leading me, I’ll be there to stick up for him just like I would my own brother, regardless of how much he aggravates me.
Recently I saw a Facebook post talking trash about my pastor. This was from a man who had left the church bitter, and due to his own circumstances. I got frustrated pretty quickly and was ready to go at it. God has been teaching me to keep my mouth shut, and luckily I chose to be obedient. I still had to ask forgiveness for the thoughts in my head, though I didn’t type them out.
I was ready to stick up for him because he was my family.
[reminder]Have you found yourself in a situation like this? What did you do?[/reminder]

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