I woke up this morning hearing this statement, “ Truth is your medicine.”

Yesterday I had a conversation with my community group pastor about my concerns about our church. I have many but the two issues that I brought up was the role of female pastors speaking from the pulpit on Sundays and the sexual impurities in the body of Christ.

In the past year, our church has been having one of our female pastor speak frequently on Sundays. After much research, prayers and discussions with other mature believers I feel less and less comfortable with female pastors speaking to the congregation on Sundays from the pulpit.

I also shared that in the ten years I’ve been attending our church I have yet to hear one sermon from the pulpit about sexual sin and biblical guidelines about sex. With so much sicknesses in our church – relationally, spiritually and physically, I am sure there are many sexual sin and pollution within our church. It may not be an actual infidelity but bondage to pornography or premarital sexual relationship, etc.

Our church like so many churches in America has been dishing out the grace gospel every Sunday. Only comforting the sheep in their sicknesses and not giving hard truths in the Bible that is medicine for their sicknesses if they choose to receive it.

The community group pastor said he’ll share my thoughts with our lead pastor and he thanked me for sharing my concerns. He also encouraged me to talk the lead pastor too. I’d rather not but I probably should.

As I’ve been praying seriously about leaving my church again, I recall the countless prayers that our women’s prayer group has sown into our church and leadership. Sigh. I don’t know. Well, I’m committed there until the end of our spring semester as I lead a women’s bible study group and a women’s prayer group. So I have time to think and pray more about this decision.

Holy Spirit, please help me to make the right decision about my home church situation. And if I am to speak up more to our church leadership, please give me courage and wisdom to speak up. Thank you for your guidance and your truth. Truth is our medicine. Praise the Lord for God’s word! I pray that our church will offer more truth from the pulpit so that we can be a healthy church. 🙏✝️