Can I trust the leadership of the church?
In any financial campaign of any church, one of the big questions that people are going to ask but not actually ask is this one. People are going to ask the question internally, but they are most likely not going to ask anyone out loud.
It’s weird the way church people work sometimes. I know because I am one. The way we often work is to keep our mouths shut fearing conflict, while all along developing a kind of questioning bitterness in our hearts until it actually leaks out in all kinds of nasty conflict. Church people tend to produce the exact thing we are trying to avoid.
This is one of those questions that ends up becoming a nagging internal question with the potential for bitterness, so I’m asking it right now for everyone else in our church. Can you trust the leadership of our church? If you can, awesome. But if you can’t, I’ve just asked the question for you so you can feel free to bring me your feedback. If something has happened in our church to wound your ability to trust the leadership here, please share that with me and I will to the best of my ability work to address it with our leadership team. You can send any concerns you have to elders@lafayettecc.org.