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Earlier this week I retweeted Thom Rainer who was promoting a Christianity Today article by Carl Vaters entitled “5 Lies Pastors are Tempted to Tell - And How to Resist Them.” When I retweeted it I said, “True - what’s worse is lying to self: denial. And that keeps you from engaging with those who can help.”
Admittedly there is a tension between the lies that are told, i.e. my church is bigger, healthier, and my family and I are spiritually and emotionally strong, etc and reality. Pastors are people of faith. They want to look at things through the lens of the promise of God. They want to think glass half full and trust that God’s got this. The trouble is when that faith perspective is not tempered by reality then one can drift into denial. Think see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
But it gets worse. If we drift from the good, faith filled, trusting in God perspective to one where we deny the problem exists then we are also denying that we have to deal with them. The situation will likely get worse because we are turning a blind eye (or a rose colored glasses eye) to even seeing the problem.
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