Chicken on the notice board

[lazarus]

Yesterday, someone complained about a photo on the church's notice board. It was a picture of a recent Choir picnic where our music director was holding up a tray of chicken. It was about 6x4 in size, the picture not the tray. The picnic was being held at a local park. There were many other pictures on the notice board from the picnic.

"As Adventists we should be see to be upholding the health message, this is not traditional Adventism", the complainer said.

What should the Pastor do (after he has prayed).

1. Ignore the complaint.

2. Laugh.

3. Preach a sermon about the health message

4. Get stressed.

5. Resign.

6. Call the offender into his office.

7. Secretly/publicly take the picture down.

8. Secretly Photoshop the picture and replace it.

9. Call the complainer into his office

10. Go visit a sick person.

11. Play a computer game with his kids.

12. Remind himself of what EGW says about eating meat.

13. Disband the choir.

14. Ask if there is any chicken left.

15. Develop a policy for posting items on the board.

16. Find the old policy for posting items on the board.

[Liz]

Tell the complainer that it was chicken not pork, so that person was upholding to the health message as far as that person was lead. That we do indeed have a health message but we are not called to be the food police.

[LifeHiscost]

Tell the complainer that it was chicken not pork, so that person was upholding to the health message as far as that person was lead. That we do indeed have a health message but we are not called to be the food police.

Blessings!

And tell the complainer to get a life!!!

[Tom Wetmore]

Give the complainer the assignment of seeking out all the chicken eaters of the congregation, inviting them home, fixing a vegetarian lunch for them and eating it with them without one word spoken about the health message.

And as a follow-up for the complainer, if they get a reciprocal invitation to eat with one of those chicken eaters, accept it graciously and eat whatever is put before them, again without a word spoken about the health message.

Tell the complainer that you will entertain the complaint and respond once the assignment is completed and you recieve a full report.

I strongly suspect that the chicken eaters will eat vegetarian without complaining and will likely fix a vegetarian lunch for the vegetarian even without a word spoken about it.

If not, oh well... The fellowship will have been more beneficial and lasting than the chicken which goes in the mouth today and goes out the other end tomorrow, as Jesus quite bluntly put it. (Matthew 15:17)

[LifeHiscost]

LIZ AND TOM

both good advice

dgrimm60

In theory. Do you think it will ever be practiced? Advice is cheap.

Regards!

[Outta Here]

Ask the complainer for some photos of him/herself in which they are upholding the health message--then you can add them to the board. That way people can see a diversity in membership. Also, in large letters, captioning the bulletin board, write:

NOT YOUR TRADITIONAL ADVENTISM

[Gail]

Good one, Aubrey! tu

When I read this, I was reminded of the place where Jesus said that it wasn't what goes INTO the mouth that defiles, but what comes out of it, as that comes from the heart. Matt.15:17-20 (What Tom was referring to, too)

[phkrause]

That's unreal Lazarus, but maybe the pastor should resign! LOL Just kidding, LOL

This is a problem, but maybe you should ask this complainer what they drink, also I wonder what there sugar intake is. So many complain about those of us that eat according to the Bible principle's of clean meat, but yet they eat all sorts of other unhealthy food.

Good luck with your problem, not that it should be one.

And I'd visit a sick person. :)

[Woody]

Quote:

Go visit a sick person

I like this suggestion. And I think you know which 'sick' person I am talking about. He does need some visting and educating.

[phkrause]

I like this suggestion. And I think you know which 'sick' person I am talking about. He does need some visting and educating.

LOL Woody, this was one of Lazarus' choice's, and yes I think the complainer is the one he needs to visit! I'm guessing this is who you meant?

[Woody]

One more suggestion:

Divide the board into sections of chicken eaters and Non-Chicken eaters.

You can then have a contest to determine if chicken eaters have better Bulletin Boards than non-Chicken eaters.

[GreatLakesGramma]

My choice:

11. Play a computer game with his kids.

[SivartM]

I think that those who eat chicken should sit on one side of the church, and those who never eat anything remotely unhealthy should sit on the other side.

[Dottie]

The church might sink into the ground on one side.

[Amelia]

Quote:

8. Secretly Photoshop the picture and replace it.

Replace the chicken with the complainer. The pastor would then be upholding the health message.

[jasd]

QR frame:

Hmmm, given the responses above - mebbe, one fine Saturday afternoon sometime future - I may actually run across a plate of fried chicken at the church potluck. Umm, Umm, Umm. Then again,

rotsa ruck, jasd!

Seriously, a photo of a plateful of soy-based TVP might have, instead, been posted on the board - as representative of GM soya beans (almost the entirety of modern soya bean yield). Some of the recombinant compositions are - umm, interesting...

It's a cruel, complicated, and perplexing world!

[Guest]

First

5. Resign.

And then

14. Ask if there is any chicken left.

[phkrause]

And then

14. Ask if there is any chicken left.

[lazarus]

OK. Thanks for the suggestions. Here you will get a glimpse of my finely tuned 21st century leadership skills. This is what I actually did.

The person actually complained to my wife. She relayed the conversation to me.

Here are my responses as she tells the story...

My first response was to laugh.

I then got irritated.

Then I said "whatever" to myself.

I then felt frustrated.

I had a fleeting thought that this could become a major issue. Chickengate!

I relaxed and thought about the cookie dough ice cream in the fridge.

My wife then tells me that the person declared "you sound just like your husband".

I smile.

I relaxed into the couch satisfied that I have trained my wife well but worried that next time it might be bacon!

[Woody]

You and your wife are a wise team.

And yes .... we DO need to train our wives well.

[lazarus]

On a serious note. I have a feeling that the Adventist Taliban are resurgent across the United States. Anyone notice that?

[Woody]

Quote:

Untied States

Was that a typo or did you intend to say we are the Un-tied States?

[Gail]

Hmm... I haven't heard it put quite that way before, but I hear ya.

[lazarus]

Was that a typo

what typo? look again.

[Woody]

I think what you wrote before you edited it ... might have some significance.