Generation Unprofessional
Posted on February 14th, 2008 by catalyst into the City Boobie Church categoryHere are some more of your City Bible/Bible Temple tithe dollars at work:
From Ex-City Bible Slave,
After I left BT, I and some of my collegues went on to become youth leaders at another church in Portland. This did not go over well with some of the youth leaders who stayed at BT, because they felt we had abondoned them and “stole” some of their kids. This made for a strained relationship and very little interaction between our youth groups.
However, during my few years at this other church our kids were asking about going to Generation Unleashed (held at BT) and wondered why our youth group had not yet attended. So we decided to put our differences aside (after all it was about the kids and not us) and take a small group of kids to the event. One of the members on our team even offered to teach a daytime workshop, which was initially ok’d.
This is where it gets interesting. The first night we where there the head youth pastor for the conference came up to us during worship and asked to speak with us. He took us to another room and told us that we were not welcome there and that the senior pastor himself wanted us to leave. He personally escorted us to the door. Our speakers name was removed from the brochure. We were blatenly ousted from the even for now reason and with no explination other then this mans pride. We thought he must be crazy. We did nothing wrong. There were thousands of kids there from all over the city and he singled us out just because he did not personally like us.
After the night was over we did not go back there and later had a meeting with some of the BT leadership. We were fed all sorts of lies and told never to come back again. The level of arrogance, anger, and downright evil message these “leaders” were directing towards us broke my heart. I could not believe what I was hearing and seeing. I thought, “has Chrisitanity really come to this?”
And from My Little Pony:
In terms of my personal worst experience (with CBC-ers), I was a victim of a brutal crime and the elders’ position was that it was my fault, that I must have somehow had a crack in my “covering” and been on “a bad path” and otherwise made myself vulnerable to this trauma.
My closest friends “took the party line,” decided I had done something to deserve the brutality I had experienced, judged me utterly, and ostracized me. In hindsight, I know their theology was fear-based, and they had to tell themselves I had done something to deserve what happened…otherwise, they would have had to believe that anything could happen to them, too, regardless of how strictly they adhered to their lists of do’s and don’ts.
At the time, it devastated me, but only briefly, because ultimately it drove me into the arms of Jesus, where I discovered the truth about Him and Christianity. While I don’t wish to ever re-live what happened to me, I praise God for the fact that it catapaulted me out of that wicked s ystem and into the truth.
Three years later, and the stories are still pouring in. Seriously people, there is a big problem with City Boobie Church. And it goes way beyond, bitterness. It's a problem with leadership. And a specific leader at that. I don't want to name names, but it rhymes with Shcmazio.
And I know, they have cool worship, and three campuses, and a Jesus-endorsed coffee shop in the lobby, so yeah, it's probably just me.
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February 14th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
This stuff really makes me sick. I can only hope that they have changed in the past 5-10 years since this stuff happened.
They actually have 2 coffee shops in the lobby. I imagine that one is for the white folk and the other is for the…
February 14th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Are Jesus-endorsed coffee shops just as overpriced as other coffee shops?
February 14th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
So Jesus doesn’t do wine anymore… just coffee? Rats.
February 15th, 2008 at 5:05 am
So if I — being one of said white folk — go into the “other” one for a cup-o-joe, does that mean I get to vote for Obama?
Good one, annie.
-joe
February 15th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Yeah Pope, I am sure they got together over the last few years and had meetings on how they could act more Christain. I imagine the conversations went something like this:
White guy #1: “OK boys, we are starting to get a bad reputation in the community from former church members who have left because of our improper treatment of them. What do you think we should do about it?”
White guy #2: “Yeah, I agree it’s time to move on from our old racist and hypocritical ways. That pride and arrogance stuff is soooo 90s.”
White guy #1: “What is the City Church doing? We can’t let them beat us to the punch on how to properly treat our members, right?”
White guy #3: “Maybe we should jump on the “we accept everyone bandwagon. I hear it goes over well these days.”
White guy #1: “Yeah that’s a start, but we have to be careful. We don’t want people to think we are a grace centered church all the sudden - that would mean people actually start thinking for themselves and trusting in Jesus more then us.”
White guy #2: “Whooa, and we don’t want that to happen. Tithing may go down!”
White guy #1: “Ok, ok bad idea. Lets just follow Bush’s lead and stay the course. But try to get some more brown people in the youth group. It will help our image.”
White guy #2 & #3: “Sounds good boss. But we still haven’t figured out how we are gonna stop that blog……?”
On second thought…maybe they haven’t changed.
February 16th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
I can’t believe they kicked people out of the church.
I seriously can’t believe it. That’s ridiculous. WHAT IS THIS WORLD COMING TO WHERE NICE PEOPLE GET KICKED OUT OF CHURCH?!?!??!?!!?
February 20th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
This is the way it goes at CBC. If you ain’t one of them, you are against them, plain and simple.