$#!7 My IFB Pastor Says....

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So, at my very last service at our old IFB church back in February, the pastor was ranting and raving about the regular fundie stuff. Then he started saying that if he as the pastor had offended anyone, they needed to just grow up and shut up basically since he was the authority in the church and they just needed to respect that and if they couldn't get over it and just shut up that they were just big babies.

After the service, I commented to the lady who was my best friend that I felt like the pastor was just making excuses for hurting people. An old lady overheard it, and tried to make public drama on my Facebook about it. I deleted it, which riled her even more. She sent me an email saying that "everyone knew" what I had said (I guess she told them, because I had made sure nobody was around). She wrote that since it was "obvious" that I "couldn't handle" such "hard preaching" that I was obviously not saved even though I knew I was, I was just deceived, because if I were truly saved I'd not have a problem with "hard preaching". She made up a whole heap of other accusations as well. My husband went to church on Sunday, without me, and spoke to her. He recorded it as we all know they are good at backpedaling on what they say. She claimed in that that she "never said" several things that were in the email. Then she made up several other lies. I told my husband that if she was going to lie, and people would believe her because she's been in that church from the start and the pastor had already stated over and over that if an old church member says one thing and a new member another thing, he always believes the old member and knows the new one is lying because they have been there a long time and "earned respect" and he knows they don't lie. So basically, even with cold, hard evidence, there was no point. So we just said nothing and never went back. We blocked anyone from that church on our Facebook page. But we still have a pastors wife from elsewhere who passes along gossip to them, and they've been talking about me on Facebook. Especially about how "sad" it is that I "just suddenly turned liberal, and wears PANTS now".