Don't panic, this isn't a highly Christian and the world's ending post 😉😅🤣
The past 18 months have been spiritually turbulent. Our two sister churches appointed a new priest-in-charge, but the newfound optimism, growth, and unity quickly disappeared.
As previously posted, this position fostered evangelical ableism, but anti-LGBTQ+ sexism, division, and lies also occurred.
Ecclesiastes 10:1-6 emulates the experience:
"As dead flies give perfume a bad smell, so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honour . . . Even as fools walk along the road, they lack sense and show everyone how stupid they are. If a ruler’s anger rises against you, do not leave your post; calmness can lay great offences to rest. There is an evil I have seen under the sun, the sort of error that arises from a ruler: Fools are put in many high positions."
Our new Reverend wanted to "shake up" practises, cut bad, and encourage good. However, Simon was different. His presumptions were misguided and outdated; what he deemed good was foolish. For example, Hannah and I managed the church's social media. After 18 months, our church accounts—especially Instagram—went global, reaching 30,000 people, but he, disinterested, found it meaningless, favouring a new website without grasping social media’s impact. So, discarded, the accounts slowly died, going from 500+ interactions to 20. Then more happened.