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Pastors Moving Every Few Years a True Reason PKs Backslide?

[Insert Acts Pun Here] Posts: 12817 **8/19/16 8:04 am**

This idea seems to be often stated or assumed, but is it true?

01000001 01100011 01110100 01110011 Posts: 24285 **8/19/16 10:25 am**

Moving always has an effect on lives. I did not like moving as a PK, and then I turned right around and moved regularly as a preacher and military.

I know PK's whose dads moved 2-4 years who are:

Good members.
Good pastors
TV preachers.
Good COG administrators
Good preacher's wives
Good preachers

Sorry non members, dislike the church and blame the COG for most problems.
Mean pastors, hard
One who is a TV Crook.

All from my childhood when the COG was small enough that I knew most of the preachers and their kids in North Carolina.

I do think it had some negative effects on my life, but not sure it was any worse than member's kids who never moved. But it is an interesting question. I am glad that some PK's now can attend school with classmates from elementary school to HS grads and have some roots, that I never had.

The moving may have had a lot to do with me being a HS dropout because I was not tied to anyone in my class in HS. Idea

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Re: Pastors Moving Every Few Years a True Reason PKs Backslide?

Golf Cart Mafia Capo Famiglia Posts: 4682 **8/19/16 11:42 am**

Acts-pert Poster Posts: 16509 **8/19/16 11:50 am**

I am in that club and have many close friends in the club. It's not the moving. It's having access to so much hypocrisy as a child that causes it, in my opinion.

[Insert Acts Pun Here] Posts: 12817 **8/19/16 12:41 pm**

In getting to know a church growth consultant a few years ago, I mentioned in passing how when I was growing up as a PK, we moved, on average, every two years. He looked at me in amazement, and said, "How is it that you still love and serve God at all?!?"

Really though, except for the three years in my early adulthood when I stupidly became an alcoholic, I never once seriously considered not living for God. I did angrily vow as a teenager that I would never be a pastor, and that was indeed due to local church politics forcing my Dad out of a pastorate and making us move right in the middle of high school for me, but in due time I found I was not able to run from the call of God very well.

I just can't see any legitimate excuse for not living for God. I think PKs likely do have more opportunities than others to see hypocrisy in church politics or even perhaps in their parents' lives, but when it comes down to it, anyone who rejects God to follow their own desires does so because they do not want to serve Him, not because of perceived injustices suffered by them as a result of their parents being in vocational ministry per se.

Re: Pastors Moving Every Few Years a True Reason PKs Backslide?

01000001 01100011 01110100 01110011 Posts: 24285 **8/19/16 7:42 pm**

Golf Cart Mafia Consigliere Posts: 3382 **8/20/16 10:46 am**