{"id":472,"date":"2008-04-02T22:26:28","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T03:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=472"},"modified":"2008-04-02T22:26:28","modified_gmt":"2008-04-03T03:26:28","slug":"following-up-on-church-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=472","title":{"rendered":"Following Up on church stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I posted about my little Springcreek drama (where I had a hard time listening to other people), so a followup is in order.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, after the First Wednesday service, Scott (the guy who gets paid to manage the presentation) asked if I had a few minutes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I knew what was coming. I really didn&#8217;t want it to be so, but when your boss asks you to meet with them privately, it&#8217;s usually not good news.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, there&#8217;d been noticeable tension in the booth when I last served. Charles is frustrated with me; I&#8217;m frustrated with him. I get frustrated at myself for making mistakes, etc., so much so that another volunteer sent a message to Charles asking what was going on between him and me.<\/p>\n<p>So, Scott made an executive decision to pull me out of the booth and &#8220;work on other creative areas&#8221;, which means doing slides for music, etc., maybe video stuff once I get a computer that can do that. It&#8217;s supposedly only temporary, at least until things cool off.<\/p>\n<p>No, I don&#8217;t know how I feel about it. I&#8217;m hurt that Charles didn&#8217;t talk to me directly; I&#8217;m hurt that a church that prides itself on building relationships isn&#8217;t letting this one sort itself out; I&#8217;m just hurt right now. I&#8217;m also in a down state, and I&#8217;ve got to take that into account.<\/p>\n<p>But ultimately, what matters? Nothing of this earth, certainly. However, I&#8217;m not in heaven yet, so this world has a chance to try to cut me to see if I bleed.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m choosing for now to be gracious as possible. Right now, that&#8217;s not very gracious, because I&#8217;m human as the next person, but it&#8217;s the best I can do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I posted about my little Springcreek drama (where I had a hard time listening to other people), so a followup is in order. Tonight, after the First Wednesday service, Scott (the guy who gets paid to manage the presentation) asked if I had a few minutes&#8230; I knew what was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=472\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Following Up on church stuff&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-floating-hostility","category-perspectives","category-religion","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}