I just listened to the podcast by New Life Church titled: Latest Information on the Senior Pastoral Transition.
Tragedy. That was my first thought when I heard about the incident. Yet, after listening to the message, my heart was filled with hope again. "How wonderful!" I thought. In bad times, as one of the pastors had said, a family draws closer together. Sounds easy, doesn't it? I mean, it's like duh! However, as I imagined the hurt, disappointment, sadness, anger, betrayal etc, I came to realise that it was serious stuff. I mean, if it were a small case of little consequences, it'll be easy to forgive. But for such a high profile case, affecting even me, half the world away here in Singapore, to forgive the person and to say that "It is well" is a really silly thing to say, if it weren't real. But it is real!The church still functions. As it was mentioned in the podcast, tragedy proves that we really need a Saviour! And how the family (church) resonds will show how mighty God is to save.
I totally believe good will come out of the situation. There's hope. Perhaps, in like 10 years' time, we might look back and say that this case wasn't actually God's judgement on pastor Tedd or the church of America. Rather, it was His mercy.
