Week 7 Church Conflict Story
Anton Folz
Feb 23rd, 09
1. Rev. Brad Terhune, after the Sunday Morning service on Feb 22nd
2. The Toilet Filled with Concrete
Rev. Brad shared a story that he knew of a local youth pastor that had been involved in a church conflict. The story is that the youth pastor was doing a fundraiser, and they had poured concrete into the base and back of a toilet to make it super heavy. They then announced that the fundraiser would be conducted in a way that it a member of the church wished to not have the toilet placed in their yard, then they would have to buy toilet insurance, AKA Concrete Poddy insurance.
One of the members of the board, the vice chair to be exact, did not buy insurance for the toilet protection. Consequently, the toilet was delivered and placed in the lawn of this individual, which upset the man greatly. He and a friend moved the toilet by pickup truck to the church and left it there. The Youth pastor then took the toilet back to the house and hooked it up to the man’s chimney on his house and left it there, to moved when they bought the removal service.
This brought a great deal of tension and conflict between the Senior Pastor, the youth Pastor, the board, and the church members that also knew what was going on. What and how would you resolve this?
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wow.
ReplyDeleteInteresting idea for a fund raiser, but probably a bad one. If the youth pastor could step back and look at the bigger picture I think he would see that this is very much like blackmail.
It is a creative idea, just not very well thought through.