Just recently someone passed on to me, quite accidentally I'm certain, some either untrue, nasty or both, things that have been said about me behind my back.
This was in a CGGC context. Don't try to guess if it was you who alerted me to them. I won't say. This has happened several times.
And, here's the thing.
What I heard said about me doesn't bother me precisely BECAUSE it's being said in a community of people who identify themselves with the church and with Jesus...and it's become so normal for it to happen.
I got used to sniping and exaggerations and, well, lies spoken behind my back shortly after I committed to live as a prophet. It surprises me how little I care, and how easily I can forgive when forgiveness is sought.
What's new in this is that it occurred to me that, if the same thing happened on my real-life job, I'd be devastated.
I'm going to be thinking this through for a long time. I don't know exactly what to make of it, but there is significance here...about being part of an institutionalized church, and living in the world.
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