Dear Christians: Are you more concerned with being true to your church...or being true to your faith?

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6. Ours is a Pesbyterian church, but very liberal

I enjoy going. I trust the people on the pastor nomination and selection committees will select someone who fits with our church community. If not, there will be people who leave, and I may be one of them. Several years ago (maybe 18-20 now), we had co-pastors who sounded good in the interviews and in the demo sermons they gave, but were much more conservative than they let on. Contracts are for 5 yrs. That was all they served for. Some of the conservative people that had joined our congregation left with them.

Oh well.....

I have a friend who has held administrative posts in our church almost as long as I've been going there (24 yrs). He says he looks at the Bible as guidelines (I said like the pirate code?) They are stories with some truth, written to be moral guidelines for their audience. The book has been rewritten over the years and adapted to whatever audience they are trying to influence at the time.