This past Sunday, this line from my pastor's sermon stuck with me:
“Unresolved anger towards one spiritual authority leads to a bad attitude towards all spiritual authority." -- Rod Loy
Often, we see people who had a bad experience in a certain kind of church (progressive, Evangelical, Pentecostal/Charismatic, etc.) react to their bad experience with complete and total suspicion of anything and everything they were taught in their previous church.
Someone who formerly went to a prosperity gospel church may end up seeing every discussion about tithes and offerings as an abusive attempt to promise financial blessings in exchange for giving to the church.
