Pastors who lost their faith are a big concern to God. We cannot think of a more needed role in all of Humankind than the role of leading those who are searching to find their spirituality. Our world is growing more hostile and indifferent to those who need to find themselves, and it is preventing them from doing so. Our site is highly critical of false churches and pastors who are misrepresenting God for the growth of their church organizations and their own cult empires. That is definitely not you.
We emphasize much the difference between spirituality and religion because for many there is a difference. However, for also just as many those things are seen as the same. We New Age Christian believers worship God and His highest creation, which is us, through respecting the individuality of each person. We respect the difference of each individual as sacred and recognize each person’s differentness as God’s gift to Humankind. What makes each of us different is where we will find God, and how we each will serve Him. Your difference is your calling God gave you to act upon, in living out your preplanned life path. For a dancer, God is dancing, and in dancing is how a dancer worships God. So it is with every interest, skill, dream and passion in every person’s heart that has ever lived. For you your passion to lead others to Christ is real, and you should return to it in some form or another.
If God called you to be a pastor, as was my father-in-law, that means there are similar others out there who need you to shepherd them as your flock, somewhere. If God called you to fill a need in some people’s hearts, then that means there are needful others out there who need you to be their shepherd. Not all individuals need the structure of a religion to find themselves and live in a religious setting to build their character. But for many people, in their world view, their psychological needs, and their psyche need the structure of a religious environment in which to feel secure, grow and thrive. They need the social setting of a church and interaction of a congregation as their world to make them feel complete. My first wife was a Christian elementary school teacher and supervisor, and her world was rich and full in that glorious setting. That is the world that God wants you to make for a flock who needs you and your personality to be their shepherd.
We do not know the reason why you as a pastor lost your faith. It could have been because of the lack of character in your church followers, or because of lack of integrity in your upper denomination’s leadership. There are a million reasons that could have been the cause, all legitimate. Be very careful though in interpreting any reasons as an indication that you are not worthy to be a pastor, and that God does not want you in that very important role. If it was personal loss as the reason for your loss of faith, it could have been because weaker others will suffer the same thing, and they need you as an example of how to get through it. What I have seen is God perhaps gave you these losses for you to overcome, so that you can lead others who will undergo the same trials and losses through it to make them stronger in character. Maybe without you there they will not make it. Many answered the call to serve in war, and never came home, all through history, many answered the call to serve in all stations in life, at great expense to themselves. I bet, if asked, not one would say they would not serve and give again, seeing the great good their service did for Humankind. Will you say no to the great calling God has laid upon your heart? Humankind needs you as a pastor in a role somewhere.
We New Age Christians have an insight that in this case, may serve as encouragement for you to again resume the role God has probably authentically called you to fill. We worship God and see our differentness as a color in a rainbow. The more colors in the rainbow’s spectrum, the more beautiful the rainbow. We cannot represent Christianity, God’s word and His sovereignty as clearly as Christianity needs to be represented to these others as you can. We worship God as a manifestation of character and want others to become their highest selves as God created them to become. You want the same thing. Your followers do not need our New Age Christian views, they need your Christian theology views because it fits them. Birds need to be able to fly, fish need to swim in the open sea.
There are those who would not understand the world without it being in a religious setting. Moreover, they need a pastor to represent the world to them in such a setting. Their hearts need a defined theology as laid out in God’s word, The Holy Bible. We New Age Christians believe God has entered Humankind though The Common Man and Motherhood since day one. When Christ died, he cried, “It is finished.” And at that point all Humankind’s sin was forgiven, since day one, for those whose character was acted out as the Good Samaritan’s character displayed. There need not be any religious or theological salvation for their reward to be granted. That is our belief which fits us, and this is important, it does not need to be your belief in agreement with us, for your belief and your theological interpretation to fit you. It is very important that you reconnect with your calling to become a pastor and serve God in leading others to Him. Because there are those out there that need you that are of your kind.
Just for the record, this is an emotional and spiritual encouragement ministry. We are selling nothing here and are not at the present time even set up to take donations, and probably never will. Your healed life is our reward enough, and we are very pleased with that. If you want to, please share your strength with others in your future so our nurturing can live on.