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questionable faith a pastor on the losing end of a crisis of faith skip to navigation skip to main content skip to primary sidebar skip to secondary sidebar skip to footer questionable faith a pastor on the losing end of a crisis of faith home about questionable faith where have you been nov 8 posted by questionablefaith can i just make it as short and sweet as possible i have 2 kids it is the fall school sports band etc first i have been holding this in for as long as possible and it is driving me nuts i have not told my wife my kids i can t tell my church or even post it to my facebook account because i would never hear the end of it the news i voted for obama i know no biggie for a lot of people but this is huge for me i have been a registered republican for 20 years now and have towed the party line more often than not i did vote in the gop primary and picked ron paul not because i agreed with him but because his name caused me to throw up in my mouth the least and when romney finally got the nomination not like there was going to be any doubts i began to doubt that he was getting my vote i have been very critical of president obama and just about any democrats or liberal for that matter to the point that i was just a jerk with a bad attitude so as i considered which 3rd party i would support i decided to give the president an open and honest look i don t agree with him on all things i am still very pro life so much so that i want to see troops pulled from overseas i want the defense budget cut i want to see an end to the death penalty and i hate factory farming and i am also a vegetarian so i don t see any middle ground there i ve also become more accepting of of gays and lesbians and more open to marriage equality and i m really softening on that but i also realized that we were in the crapper financially 4 years ago and we are doing a hell of a lot better today and there is a chance of improvement so i did it i overlooked all of the hatred and voted for my president barack obama and when ohio was called on tuesday night i quietly celebrated and went to work on wednesday with a big smile on my face thinking the sun was shining a little brighter hopefully one day i can share this with someone other than a really good friend from college whose political and theological leanings have moved more mainstream in recent years i will hopefully get an update on here soon about where i am at spiritually as well thanks to those who have checked on me it is appreciated posted in uncategorized 11 comments trying to get back aug 30 posted by questionablefaith i just realized this morning that it has been 6 weeks since i last posted and the 89 emails in the account attached to this blog backed up that fact a lot has happened at times it has been 2 steps forward and 3 steps back i ve felt my faith increase and i ve seen my lack of faith grab hold of me and shake me down pretty good i will get an update up as soon as possible thanks to the new followers who joined in spite of my lack of activity posted in uncategorized 6 comments he still doesn t get it as a alum of sbts i do have the utmost respect for dr al mohler but once again he is showing in this blog post that he doesn t really get it attacking those who are struggling with unbelief and faith will only push them us further away posted on august 30 2012 link still here jul 16 posted by questionablefaith last week i was playing catch up from my week a way and now i m preparing for my next week away when we take our youth to camp in the past i ve always looked forward to this event now i m sort of second guessing me going hopefully i will make the most of it and maybe even get a bit more clarity i hope all is well and thanks for your well wishes posted in uncategorized 3 comments worth watching jul 9 posted by questionablefaith if you can get past the dryness and the sarcasm well worth watching from christian to atheist posted in uncategorized 1 comment a much needed week away jul 9 posted by questionablefaith last week i took my family and we went on a mission trip to a very poor and depressed area up north we spent 4 days in one of the poorest and most neglected areas of a pretty good size city we worked with a church that we helped with in the past and is active in working with the poor and homeless while their ultimate goal is to see a conversion take place they focus on the immediate needs as well i needed this i think part of my problem as of late has been frustration with the church crowd while i still have my doubts i can trace many of them to the fact that so many who claim to be born again and christian behave and act anything like that they claim to want to see lives changed but do nothing but gripe and complain about what the pastor and others aren t doing to achieve the said goal to call it maddening would be an understatement on this trip i was able to get away from the typical church people get immersed in a culture that i m not really used to and simply reach out to people and help them we gave mats to sleep on food to eat water to drink we even ran to walmart and bought bug spray and anti itch cream for one couple simply because they needed it basically we did a lot of stuff that the church should be doing while i m not sure how much this will help in my faith issues and my doubts it did my heart good to help others so much so that i m really looking at what i can do to begin some of that some work in the area i live in maybe i will once again find god in doing this hopefully i will at least i suppose this would best end with a to be continued posted in uncategorized 2 comments just read your bible jun 25 posted by questionablefaith ok before you offer commentary on biblical stories you should probably spend some time actually studying your bible of course that can be dangerous to your christian faith reading the bible has probably produced more atheists than any other activity patrick quigley thanks to my friend at the bittersweet end blog for this one posted in uncategorized 3 comments a second effort jun 20 posted by questionablefaith this past week was my denomination s annual meeting and for the first time in my ministry i actually attended part of it i didn t stay for the meetings mainly because i despise meetings but was there for the pastor s conference that kicked it all off thankfully i was able to witness some of the good side of being in christian ministry during those couple of days without seeing the ugliness that comes when agendas are all that matter when the meetings begin i went in with an open mind and hoping to hear something anything that would hit me where i am to be honest it did but it was a struggle it didn t take long for me to recognize the mental and even emotional disconnect i once had with hearing powerful preaching and participating in soul stirring worship i found myself having to make myself sing the songs about the greatness of god and digging deep to say amen to a point i might have once proclaimed as truth myself before the 2 days were up i was finding myself softening up a bit but still the disconnect remains obviously this can t be a good thing over the next few weeks things will really get busy for me so i m not so sure how much blogging i will do we ve got our vacation bible school followed by a mission trip and then youth camp these are things i have always looked forward too and i still do but there is the concern of being disconnected that worries me i m not very good at wearing a mask and i m not so sure if i m in a right mindset to really participate like i want too my heart is there my mind though not so much i will try to give it a 2nd effort i bought a new bible at the conference in a translation i once loved and used all the time i stopped using this particular translation because the other bibles i had like it fell apart way too easily and i wasn t big on spending that type of money ever few months bibles can be expensive in my heart of hearts i m hoping that spending some time reading this translation might help me return to my first love like we read about in the book of revelation i m also going to really really really work on trying to pray again maybe it is nothing more than childlike wishing but i would love to get back to being where i once was spiritually it is wednesday my friends i hope your week has been grand and the remainder of it flies by thanks for popping in and giving me a bit of your time posted in uncategorized 7 comments tags agnostic bible god prayer preaching worship those weird chills down your back jun 14 posted by questionablefaith last night i walked into our living room where my daughter was watching the dvd for our vacation bible school vbs learning the music because she is also helping another church with their vbs this week the music is always a cute combination of faith with dance motions that will get the kids excited and hopefully help them learn the lessons that they are tied into i ve been doing this since before i started pastoring no big deal another year another vbs not really she was listening to one of the songs that slows things down and really makes the participants think and when i heard the lyrics to a song called worthy which proclaims how jesus alone is worthy something i have preached time and time again as well as professed belief in as well for some reason when i heard bow down i had weird chills run up and down my back and not the good butterflies in the stomach type i was sincerely creeped out by this should be interesting since we have our own vbs in a little over a week posted in uncategorized 3 comments tags agnostic doubting vbs hoping for rain jun 13 posted by questionablefaith it is raining here i m really hoping it continues for very selfish reasons we do have church tonight the aforementioned wednesday night prayer meeting but that isn t the real reason on this particular wednesday night we follow that with the all important monthly business meeting insert sarcastic tone rain usually keeps people home if you are not familiar with baptist polity each church is self governed meaning the members make the decisions locally than some far off hierarchy making the calls this can be good and bad the bad part is what you deal with in these meetings pointless committee reports a lot of griping and the occasional ass being shown who will be quickly forgiven for attacking anyone and everyone they feel is responsible for their self induced problems usually beginning with the pastor thankfully the worst for me in the last year was being called unethical of course this was from the man who was claiming his wife should be payed for playing the organ even when she wasn t playing the organ and also get paid vacation on top of that organ players actually work less than 1 hour a week in terms of playing in most churches anyway i m hoping for rain because hopefully people will stay home and i can get home quicker i doubt it will happen because this is the highlight of the month for most of these people since it makes them feel so important maybe if they were as dedicated to the prayer meetings as they are the business meetings i wouldn t grip and bitch so much posted in uncategorized 2 comments older posts search for recent posts where have you been trying to get back he still doesn t get it still here worth watching archives november 2012 august 2012 july 2012 june 2012 may 2012 categories uncategorized meta create account log in entries feed comments feed wordpress com blog at wordpress com subscribe subscribed questionable faith sign me up already have a wordpress com account log in now privacy questionable faith subscribe subscribed sign up log in report this content view site in reader manage subscriptions collapse this bar design a site like this with wordpress com get started