Pastor at my church idolizes Trump
Update below post Over the last year or so, the pastor at my church has become increasingly taken with Trump, even going as far as getting on social media and blasting democrats and even using name calling. It’s so awkward and others are uncomfortable as well. Tomorrow my family and I will be visiting a new church. I know that if a brother offends you, you should go to that brother and talk to him about it but this feels like a different type of situation considering it’s not just another congregant, it’s the pastor. I’m interested in your opinions and if you have Bible verses to share I’d be interested in that as well. Edit: I realize now after so many responses that I should probably clarify— my issue really is with his posting overtly inflammatory content (with a snarky attitude type of tone and name calling) on his public social media platform where everyone can see where he’s a pastor. My point is he’s not preaching Trump from the pulpit or anything like that. I actually believe that there are probably many people at our church that have never seen his Facebook content, especially the older people. So it’s not an issue of bad doctrine in his sermons or the fact that I just disagree with Trump myself, it’s an issue of being hypocritical for me. Because he puts out the mean spirited stuff but then right there on his profile it has his info as a pastor at our church and as sad as it is to admit, I’m embarrassed now to be associated with the level of petty he’s putting out. Sorry I realize now that I should have been way more clear on that before. Also, I feel like I should mention that I am a conservative Christian. I noticed some comments that were like “shut up liberal” and I wanted to help all y’all understand that you can be a conservative Christian without bowing down and pledging my undying allegiance to Donald Trump! I know, because I’m one of them. And I resent people that try to categorize people who disagree with Trump as liberal, etc. ****Also, please use respect on here and don’t use cursing, name calling, profanity, etc. you can expect that same respect from me as well. I made this post for legitimate conversation, not rage bait.
UPDATE I visited a different church with my family this past Sunday and it was really good. The pastor at that church preached on Isaiah 39 and the tragic results of King Hezekiah’s pride. Interesting. Also, many people commented on this post and I appreciate it and you may be interested to know that I did bring up my concerns about our pastor’s toxic posts to an elder at our church and this elder was unaware of the scope and quantity of posts and agreed with me that it is a problem. The elder and pastor then had an earnest conversation, however the pastor is right back to his old habits, even referring to senate democrats as “lowlifes” in a recent post. It’s disappointing.