Question: I told my pastor about my life and now I think he's ignoring me.?
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"Wall of text alert." should have tailed your post. Seriously.Answer #2:
"Homosexually harassed"? This is ridiculous.EDIT: But, then again, you're a dirty little troll. (See avatar name).
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Hes too busy looking at little boy's buttsAnswer #4:
Email is so impersonal. If you respect him and his authority, then pick up the phone and CALL him. Ask him for an appointment and TALK over these things with him.Pastors are very busy so don't IMAGINE that he is ignoring you.
Call him today!
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he may have thought of you as a potential "boytoy" and no longer is going to approach you as you are most likely going to tell others...or else...he may not have come up with a good response.Answer #6:
You sound a bit too mature for him.Answer #7:
There's nothing in his 2,000 year-old instruction manual for your situation and he's probably hoping you'll go away. So much for religion.Answer #8:
Ok, I'll admit I didn't read the message. I can't stress the importance of a little white space (paragraph breaks) in a long narrative of text.Let's start with a simple explanation: Do you know if he actually got the message. Spam filtering is not an exact science, and key certain key words can trigger it.
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OK. You have a decision to make. Either continue going along with the farce of being Christian or be honest with yourself and leave the church. You're almost an adult (I will assume you're in America) and you can take responsibility for yourself.Christianity is foreign to Korea. I was not aware that the Christianity cult had infected that culture as well. Pity.
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I'm not gonna read all that, cut it in shorter paragraphs, and if somebody harassed you as a kid you should have told your parents.Moltis scriptum non posem lederis.
Answer #11:
First of all, you have to be real with yourself and face who you are. You dont sound like you love yourself very much and you are highly and pompously opinionated about your family. Sorry that someone tried to do something wrong to you. Why didn't you report this to your local police? It is not too late, make the call and ask for confidentiality from the precinct.You need to see a counselor about depression. Therapy will be good for you and you will be able to get a lot of things off your chest and make some since of things in your daily life. Start with talking to your school counselor, they can possibly hook you up with a professional who will see you free of charge.
Your pastor may be immensely busy, but He should have made time for you. did you use the right email address for Him?
pull his wife to the side at church, and tell her a little about it, that is sure to get his attention.
find out where alcoholic anonymous meets in your community and go there and stay there until you have over come this drinking habit, you are very young to have it poison your life this way.
You should pray about your spiritual situation. Talk to God a little more and study to see what His word tells you about these dilemmas.
I hope that things get much better for you, it does sound a little dismal, but you can pull through and good luck to you.
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1) Ask God forgiveness for your sins and make a pact with him that from now you will serve him with your heart. It demands repentance, what I think will not be a problem for you since you told us you want to be a christian. Read your bible everyday and try to put in practice.2) If you are trying to put your bible in practice, the Holy Spirit must be now telling you have to ask your sister for forgiveness either your wrong or right. Just don't matter. Of course, you have to forgive her in your heart if you keep any heartache, not only ask her forgiveness.
3) when steps 1 and 2 are done, that is, when you repent and make a real effort to serve God and forgive your neighbor, then the Holy Spirit finds spaces to work harder in your life. He will want you to work for him as much as you can, and your answer has to be "yes, Lord, here I am". When it's done, you got a daily life with the Holy Spirit.
4) The Holy Spirit wants to heal you of all sickness (depression, etc), and since steps 1 - 3 are being done, I see no reason that He will not do it, but if it's not done immediatelly, then when you have a daily life with Him, He conforts you, and yet you have a depression, it will not be enough to make commit sins, what would lead you a certain defeat in your whole life, cause God would just depart from you at all.
5) Help from a psichologian is not bad and you should look for one, no matter if now you are serving Christ or not. Doctors are God's blessings for us, the church.
To summarize it, work hard to do steps 1 - 3 and "4" will be done: Jesus will change your life.
Guy, there are two things that can't miss to you: FAITH and PERSEVERANCE.
Another advice I'd like to give you is to look for a church where there's a real pastor.
You asked what having eternal life means. Well, it would be an arrogation from me if I'd think I can use words to explain it. It's a kinda thing you have to live. How? Steps 1 - 3.
Sorry if I couldn't do better. I'm not a pastor and I have no experience in trying to give this kind of support. But, any way I'll pray for you tonight.
Remember... faith and perseverance can't be absent. To reach, prayes and a daily bible reading are the basis.
May the Triune God bless you!
Answer #13:
Whew!First of all, I'm very sorry to hear that you are being harassed. You don't deserve that. Period.
You deserve to have a pastor who will take the time to listen to you and hep you cope. Probably, IF he did indeed get the email, he just isn't sure what to say, so he's just pushing it to the side and hoping a magical way to fix it suddenly shows up. Your pastor should not be trying to scare you with threats of Hell. Jesus Christ has died for your sins and hell has no power over you. His job is to be feeding you God's word, not scaring the crap out of you.
See a cognitive-behavioral therapist to get treatment for your depression and alcohol problem- studies show that this is the most effective way of treating depression (as opposed to just medication or other types of therapy).
Also, I'd like to recommend this podcast series on the complaint Psalms. Click Here
The series is done by a pastor who has himself struggled with severe depression- it is largely about how to pray when it seems that God has turned His back on you. By the way, I happen to know that you can find/send a message to that pastor on Facebook.
Faith is always a struggle- you won't always feel close to God or even sure of His existence. Simply cry out "Lord, I believe- help my unbelief!". Stay in God's Word.
I also advise finding a new church. It sounds as though you are in Korea? This wasn't clear from your post. In that case, I would start here: Click Here
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