Dissing: speak disrespectfully to or criticize.
Our Pastor mentioned something very important that I think is quite relevant to an established traditional church like Marthoma church. Very often, church members tend to criticize their priest in front of their children. Almost always as soon as they start back home after church. It ends up affecting the spiritual authority of the pastor/priest in the lives of the children. When the child grows up and goes through a time of crisis, unfortunately the priest or the pastor has no ability to positively influence or counsel the child. The parents are desperate to get the priest involved, but the damage has been done.
If you trace the story of a lot of people who leave the church, or leave the faith, we can find a story of their parents constantly dissing the priest. How then will they stay in the church under the spiritual authority of a priest that their parents never respected?
Moral of the message: please do not speak disrespectfully of your pastor or priest in front of little children or teens.
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