The Pastor

       This member had been questioning him about their teaching on marriage. And he had answered him thoroughly, but still this member had proven him wrong from the Holy Scripture. It had already happened several times. He had been annoyed with this pestilent fellow. Why is he so interested about marriage. Did the man had some hidden agenda? The man had asked him if he was willing to preach THE TRUTH about marriage even if it means that outsiders and even majority of the church members would go against the Truth, and he had answered this man in the affirmative. He will preached the Truth even if people would persecute him, even if the whole world would go against him, he had told the pestilent fellow. But now the pestilent fellow had told him that the ball was in his hand; and that it was now his responsibility to tell the Truth about marriage. But he didn't understand what the pestilent fellow was driving at.
       And then it happened. A rich member who had a very beautiful wife, feel in love with a young but poor girl. The rich man was about 45 years old while the formerly rich but now poor girl, was about 23 years old. The wife had known about the affair, and she had let herself be impregnated by an other man, to avenge herself of her "unfaithful rich husband. And she died while giving birth , and it had caused great sorrow upon the rich man. And what was he, as pastor to do? He neither had scolded the rich man, nor had advised her wife while she was yet alive. Nor did he had anything to say about the scandal. For in truth, he was soberly lacking in knowledge of the Scripture regarding marriage. All he knows was that marriage was supposed to be holy, and that husband ought to love his wife as Christ love the church. His knowledge was traditional. Did he err in not knowing the scripture?
       He remembered that the pestilent fellow had asked him what a man should do if he had two wives? And he had answered that the man should leave his "kerida" even if he had children with her. But the pestilent fellow had answered him that You do err in not knowing the scripture..for God said that if a man had two wives he should treat them justly citing Exodus 21:10, a chapter just from the 10 commandments. God said thus, but you say that he should leave his 2nd wife...your words pastor and that of God doesn't square. And he had answered this one pestilent fellow that it was an old testament teaching; and that the new testament teach otherwise. And then,  the man had asked him if the Laws of God changes through time..and he had answered yes...so the man said if the Laws of God could be change by God at will...was God a constant God? And he had answered that God changeth not...and he he had referred him to an elder, so he could be free from this pest of a church member. But now, he had also excommunicated the elder to whom he referred the fellow...
ahhh....he was growing old indeed, the pastor thought to himself.