One day, a woman posted an open question on Facebook. “My boyfriend wants to move in with me. Should I let him?”
Now, because he had been included as one of her Facebook friends, the woman’s pastor responded. “No! Don’t do it!”
“Well!” the offended woman later blurted to a fellow member of her congregation, “maybe I’ll just transfer my membership to a church where they’ll leave me alone!”
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Ezerwoman's Blog 
It seems like she already had her mind made up.
My mother has had Dementia for 20 years and was put in a nursing home 7 years ago. A year after she went in the nursing home, my dad was lost and had no purpose (he was retired). He had done a spectacular job of taking of mom and now she was in the care of someone else. Some of the family members encouraged him to get a girlfriend which he did.
I begged and pleaded with my dad not to go down this road. He kept saying, “but I’m just not happy” to which I replied that God wasn’t interested in his happiness but his holiness….he was about to lower the bar for his grandsons.
His pastor told him that this was a sin and he couldn’t endorse this kind of behavior. My dad went to his girlfriends church and her pastor said, “I have never been in your shoes so I can’t say what is right and what is wrong.” My dad felt that the second pastor was much more compassionate than the first so he joined the church that endorsed his behavior.
The second pastor did not help my cause!
Now I have to explain to my children why my father lives with another woman while married to their grandmother and the church says that’s O.K.
It’s subjective today with the church. Sometimes you get Pastors who follow God’s Word and sometimes you don’t.
The shepherd does not leave his sheep. But as wayward sheep, we are so easily fooled into thinking there are greener pastures. Everytime I hear the song “The Lamb”, I am struck by the line “as wayward sheep their shepherd kill.” As shepherds appointed by God to serve us on earth, how it must wound our earthly pastors to see us go out in search of a message that better fits our choices.