Comments for https://kmyoung.com/ Wed, 22 Sep 2021 13:08:11 +0000 hourly 1 Comment on The One Thing Your Pastor Isn't Telling You by Kevin Young https://kmyoung.com/2021/09/the-one-thing-your-pastor-isnt-telling-you/#comment-11805 Wed, 22 Sep 2021 13:08:11 +0000 https://kmyoung.com/2021/09/the-one-thing-your-pastor-isnt-telling-you/#comment-11805 In reply to Jeannie Smith.

Wow, these words are amazing. Such an overwhelmingly kind gift to me! I wasn’t aware of large portions of that story. Just wow. Also, I want you to stop feeling guilt for not doing/being enough… that is just in your own mind. 🙂 You are enough… especially in God’s eyes.

]]> Comment on The One Thing Your Pastor Isn't Telling You by Jeannie Smith https://kmyoung.com/2021/09/the-one-thing-your-pastor-isnt-telling-you/#comment-11804 Wed, 22 Sep 2021 03:00:46 +0000 https://kmyoung.com/2021/09/the-one-thing-your-pastor-isnt-telling-you/#comment-11804 Wow. Just….wow. I’m speechless, and that’s good. It means your words moved me. Touched me. Made me sad. Made me ashamed. Made me proud to call you my Pastor, however absent I may be (am) these days. True to my nature, truthfully, I am too often all or nothing. Black or white. I procrastinate. I let excitement and great intentions, motivation and righteous anger (as you once called it), wane. I was invited a couple of years ago by a friend and churchgoer of Jupiter First. I was broken and defeated at the time, and I needed the calling to go. I was changed inside that building that day. I was moved to tears during the service, feeling the Spirit minister to me, knowing I was in THE right place for healing. I vividly recall it was your recitation of the call to communion. It’s late, I haven’t had much sleep with a sick teenager, so I can’t recall all the words – and honestly it’s been a good while now since I attended a service online or in person. But it was you speaking those words…the truth and sincerity, the love and caring. The come, even if it’s been a long time or never before…COME. It made me cry with joy! So accepting of ME, just as I was. Pitiful and disloyal, turning only to God in times of pain and suffering. How convenient for me. Staring up at that enormous cross, the power and love I felt was overwhelming, and as many have said before me, I felt like I was HOME. FINALLY. I LOVED this church more than any other ever before, mostly because of YOU. You are special. You are not the any other. The real deal. Real, relatable, affable, funny, self deprecating. But mostly I could just feel that you were not a fraud, and I was safe here. I approached you once after your sermon on moving your chair, to sheepishly say you had inspired me to move mine. And you had. And once again over time I’ve let life, and difficulty, and pain dampen my enthusiasm and rededication. I never stepped foot in there again, this place I loved so much, when I learned for whatever reason you were gone. I was so angry. I’d finally found a true church home, and it was snatched away by whatever (insert highly uncomplimentary adjectives) forces were at work to drive you away. That was that. I realized it wasn’t about the place, the church, or even so much the comforting ritual that is going every Sunday so dutifully. It was a Pastor who was different. I could hear it in the spoken and unspoken. It was your beautiful family, who so clearly adore and support you to the fullest, no matter where the tide takes you. I guess I’m my usual overly wordy way I’m trying to say THANK YOU. You have made a difference in my life. In many, many lives. I’m sorry we take you for granted. We do. You have been through so much, especially here recently with the loss of so many you care about to the devil that is Covid. You are not invincible. You need love and encouragement, and a reminder that you are making such a difference for so many people. We are beyond lucky to call you our Pastor. So lucky. THANK YOU❤️
Jeannie Smith

]]> Comment on The One Thing Your Pastor Isn't Telling You by Kevin Young https://kmyoung.com/2021/09/the-one-thing-your-pastor-isnt-telling-you/#comment-11803 Tue, 21 Sep 2021 22:13:16 +0000 https://kmyoung.com/2021/09/the-one-thing-your-pastor-isnt-telling-you/#comment-11803 In reply to Brenda4430 Petroni.

I actually really appreciated that hug and really felt that was what you were saying. Thank you!

]]> Comment on The One Thing Your Pastor Isn't Telling You by Brenda4430 Petroni https://kmyoung.com/2021/09/the-one-thing-your-pastor-isnt-telling-you/#comment-11802 Tue, 21 Sep 2021 21:39:04 +0000 https://kmyoung.com/2021/09/the-one-thing-your-pastor-isnt-telling-you/#comment-11802 So the big hug I gave you last week that I felt made you uncomfortable was my way of saying Thank You for all you do for me and my family. We love you and your family to the moon and back every month.

]]> Comment on How Should a Christian Respond to COVID? by Sally Brown https://kmyoung.com/2021/08/how-should-a-christian-respond-to-covid/#comment-11801 Mon, 16 Aug 2021 01:48:53 +0000 https://kmyoung.com/2021/08/how-should-a-christian-respond-to-covid/#comment-11801 Yes

]]> Comment on No Assembly Required by GEoff https://kmyoung.com/2021/07/no-assembly-required/#comment-11800 Mon, 19 Jul 2021 13:09:44 +0000 https://kmyoung.com/2021/07/no-assembly-required/#comment-11800 Also most Evangelical churches have a massive debt load and a major capital investment in real estate / facilities. They aren’t going to be able to pivot. I can’t imagine the stress that pastor/CEOs are under right now.

]]> Comment on No Assembly Required by GEoff https://kmyoung.com/2021/07/no-assembly-required/#comment-11799 Mon, 19 Jul 2021 13:07:50 +0000 https://kmyoung.com/2021/07/no-assembly-required/#comment-11799 “ Regular churchgoers realized what the rest of the world already knew: staying home on Sunday mornings is quite nice.”

This is really the key to me. So many people went to church simply because they had always gone to church. I’ve literally had Christians ask me what I do on Sunday mornings. When I say ‘sleep in and get brunch’ it’s like the scales fall from their eyes. There are so many people that will simply never go back now that the habit has been broken.

]]> Comment on No Assembly Required by Dustris https://kmyoung.com/2021/07/no-assembly-required/#comment-11798 Mon, 19 Jul 2021 01:41:39 +0000 https://kmyoung.com/2021/07/no-assembly-required/#comment-11798 Church went bad when it became a “Business.”
Sure, like anything else, it technically IS a business, and should be run with fiduciary responsibility.
But, too much concentration is now placed on “NUMBERS.”
Great post, and food for thought.
Thanks!!

]]> Comment on A Pastor’s Journey From Evangelical to Affirming by Molly Carnes https://kmyoung.com/2021/07/a-pastors-journey-from-evangelical-to-affirming/#comment-11797 Fri, 02 Jul 2021 14:44:33 +0000 https://kmyoung.com/2021/07/a-pastors-journey-from-evangelical-to-affirming/#comment-11797 Thank you for this. As a church finder for wounded seekers, I am determined to right this wrong. When sharing the Good News inspires thoughts of suicide in others, it is not the fruit of the Spirit. Keep your chin up and know that God walks with you during this time.

]]> Comment on The Thin Red Line by Gene, Matsuko Penny https://kmyoung.com/2021/01/the-thin-red-line/#comment-11751 Wed, 27 Jan 2021 15:57:14 +0000 http://www.kmyoung.com/?p=2064#comment-11751 Thank you for your service at WHFC. We grew to know and love you and your family. Pray everyone is doing well and wish you all the best wherever god leads.
The Penny Family

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