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Originally Posted by scooteraz
When you say the Pastor treated the team like the ugly stepchild, what do you mean. I understand the colloquial phrase, I am just wondering what the specific behaviors were. I know some on our team think that the Pastor treats us like step children, but actually he is quite interested, just doesn't show it in the most constructive ways sometimes.
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Well, all the other ministries are funded. Ours never was. Anything broke, we fixed it, or bought it new. We needed a new sound system, and we had to get all the funds together, and no, we werent even allowed to advertize "bake sale", "car wash", or anything in the bulletin, or distribute a flier.
Also, several times, the pastor would on a whim, tell the sound guy to cut all the stage monitors, because he thought it would make things a little more solemn. We told him, no, it makes things crappier, because we cant hear what where doing! he didnt care, he kept doing it, and the train wrecks got to be bad. Finally, whenever that happened, I just put my guitar down, and started tearing my gear down. I didnt do it to be mean, but I just couldnt contribute to any more train wrecks.
Never once on one of the P&W Team outings, did the pastor ever come, or promote it. Well, he did one time: He mentioned a gig at the Node (a Christian bookstore) to the congregation, but in a way that was weird: "The Praise and Worship Team is playing at the Node, but it probably wont be very comfortable or sound very good, but they do have good coffee there." Yeah, I felt the love on that one!
And some of the back-handed compliments, just cut deep. There were also some comments about musicians that just painted us as handicapped Christians. Just not right.