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March 4, 2013

Church Repents of 'Mistreating' Pastors over Past Three Decades

Congregation reconciles with four former pastors that left 'wounded and deeply distressed' from 'misdeeds and un-Christlike attitudes.'

Melissa Steffan

An Assemblies of God church in Indiana recently invited four of its former pastors to return so that the congregation could repent of gossip and other mistreatment that drove the leaders away.

Peter A. Joudry, current pastor of Madison Assembly of God (MAG), hosted a reconciliation weekend where he and his wife washed the feet of the former pastors, whose tenures at the church date back to 1983.

"We needed this weekend because of the misdeeds and un-Christlike attitudes that were displayed by our congregation toward these men of God and their families," Joudry told Assemblies of God News. He decided to host the reconciliation nine months into his tenure after "old, entrenched patterns began to resurface" leading 40 percent of the church's 260 members to leave, according to the denomination's report.

Although many of the current MAG members are not the same men and women who caused the pastors to leave, congregants at the reconciliation service prayed to "apologize for the offenses committed against the leaders," including gossip and publicly maligning the pastors.

CT previously has reported on the topic of reconciliation and on the importance of caring for pastors' health.

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Wow, that is amazing! This story should be a front-pager.

Posted By: Janathan Grace | March 4, 2013 8:00 PM

A tooth (plural teeth) is a cheap, calcified, whitish structure ground in the jaws (or mouths) of innumerable vertebrates and worn to ease up down food. Some animals, surprisingly carnivores, also use teeth for the purpose hunting or for defensive purposes. The roots of teeth are covered by gums. Teeth are not made of bone, but fairly of multiple tissues of varying density and hardness.

The ordinary systematize of teeth is be like across the vertebrates, although there is considerable modifying in their form and position. The teeth of mammals drink deep roots, and this pattern is also create in some fish, and in crocodilians. In most teleost fish, regardless how, the teeth are partial to to the outer outside of the bone, while in lizards they are fastened to the inner come up of the jaw during one side. In cartilaginous fish, such as sharks, the teeth are joined by means of cold ligaments to the hoops of cartilage that construct the jaw.



Posted By: TiestGecetops | April 17, 2013 1:40 AM

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