How would you feel if your pastor stood up in the pulpit this weekend and told you there is no God?
For the life of me I cannot work out why anyone would want to be a pastor if they didn’t believe in God or why anyone would want to go to a church that preached that message.
Never the less, this article tells me that it’s happening in Denmark.
A PASTOR in Denmark’s state Lutheran Protestant Church who caused a stir last year by saying he did not believe in God has been suspended from his duties for a second time, Bishop Lise-Lotte Rebel said on Thursday.
The bishop said pastor Thorkild Grosboell had sown “deep confusion within the Church” with his comments, which were first published in a newspaper interview in May 2003 and which he has continued to express since then.
In the interview he was quoted as saying that he did not believe in God, resurrection or eternal life.
While he later said that his comments were misconstrued and oversimplified, he refused to take them back and was suspended. Several weeks later he repented and was reinstated.
Rebel had however kept a close and watchful eye on all of Grosboell’s sermons for the past year, where he repeatedly reiterated his controversial remarks.
Read the rest of the article here.
If I didn’t believe in God, I certainly wouldn’t be going to church to reaffirm my disbelief.
If I didn’t believe in God I certainly wouldn’t choose ‘pastor’ as my career path.
What on earth does he find to preach about each week? What kind of songs does the congregation sing? It’s mind boggling.
Many people choose not to believe in God – it’s their choice – but why remain part of a church?
It’s all a bit confusing for me.
Posted by Rodney Olsen
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Hi Rodney,
I’m baffled too on this one.
There are lots of Pastors around in Australia that are partly, if not nearly all the way there.
Perhaps he wants to feel part of a club, and maybe he’s one of those annoying people who habitually misinterprets ‘rebuke’ as ‘closed-mindedness’.
What reason would he have to pray? I’d bet he composes vast long-winded spoken prayers for the benefit of the congregation.
The Book says that ‘a fool says in his heart, there is no God’ (Psalms 14:1) but is, unfortunately, silent on its opinion of a person who preaches it from the pulpit.
I don’t think I’d last very long in my secular employment if I challenged the very existence of my own managing director.
Ah, beautifully said Dave.
It seems that all around us we are be challenged to compromise the values and beliefs that we stand for.
I confer with the others to this page and wonder with them why pray, why preach, why become a pastor if that is your belief?
Wolves in sheeps clothing no doubt.