Ministers can be so filled with their persona they cannot appreciate what people in the pew are thinking or going through.Since leaving the ministry I can well understand why the pews are not filled every Sunday. it is an effort - for me at least - to contemplate being in the pew on a Sunday morning much less attend a church function, especially if one lives an hour away from their home location.
After moving the whole household to a previously owned house and making it "home", I have not attended "church". I have contemplated it. I have gone on line and checked out churches in my denomination that are within the confines of the city limits and even listened to archived (big mistake on any minister's decision to put their recorded sermons for anyone to listen to) sermons, looked at several on line Internet web sites, most of them 6 months to a year out of date, but have not ventured into a place of worship based on my own bias of the type of congregation that would fit my needs.
I realize that I have a lot of expectations that some people would not have having led three congregations during my active full time ministry as pastor. I admire, if that is the right word, ministers who retire and (feel compelled) are in a church every Sunday. I wonder if my faith retired when I did.
All this is just a fleeting thought going through my mind today. It either has nothing to do or everything thing to do with my not being in a worship service of any king some 3 years after retiring from the ministry.
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