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Amanda on April 21st, 2009
What do you, as a WIFE, not as a staff person, not as a volunteer, not as a church attender, but just as a wife (that is still all of those other things)… what do you say or do to encourage your husband when all the chips are down? When the Senior Pastor is breathing down his neck, and the elders are not “behind” him anymore?
I want to fight, I want to take on the church. I want to knock on the Sr. Pastor’s door and tell him “what-for”. I also want to say, “forget it then, let’s pack up and go somewhere else.” (I would not suggest doing either if you want your husband to ever talk to you again.)
But its so hard to not be able to DO anything.
Been there?
Ugh yeah. Today. J/K, sorta. But, yes, it is hard to sit still. So many times I’d like to go knock on the SP door and give him a piece of my mind
(This was more so in our past church than our current one). It got to the point there where I was literally taking construction paper and taping verses like “take heart, I have overcome the world” & others dealing w/ trials to our kitchen cabinets. The best was when churchmembs. came over and these were in plain sight (we lived in the parsonage). A listening ear, praying behind the scenes, and keeping the home a “safe haven” to come home to were other tangible things I could do.