Your Majesty!
Bishop Karsten Nissen
Candidates Diocese in Viborg
Dean Carsten Hoffmann
The ward Council by Hjerm Church
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Frikirkenet
We have sought employee care, and supervision
I've fallen over Jonas Serner-Pedersen's last post in Hjerm Church Magazine and I lack substance.
http://goo.gl/UuvAfZ (The pages in this year's Church magazines are consecutively numbered, so this is on page 54).
I do sit with teacher-glasses on, but I can't figure out which issue vicar Jonas Serner-Pedersen has here. The Bishop should not practice oversight in relation to this chat in the Church Magazine?
As we wrote in summer and autumn 2012, it was for the purpose of supervision, and employee care to Jonas Serner-Pedersen, because he had been bullied in 1 ½ years of his leadership in Kolding. If he had received any care, we had perhaps saved that he had destroyed our lives.
Should a company like the State Church not also have caring and charity for their own employees? Should there not also be supervision with the preaching of the Word? If the preaching of the Word needs to prosper, there must surely be some interest and concern for how the pastor has it. If parish pastor Jonas Serner-Pedersen's life does not hang together, in fact, just as I experience the text here, so shout it to the top leadership of supervision.
The pastor’s piece in the Church Magazine
I read a piece by Vicar Jonas Serner-Pedersen, where what one could call the worship portion begins with a Jesus-quote, and the pastor writes "I really think he is right". The small "really" does that it is not preaching, but a discussion post, which leaves room for doubt — I think that Jesus is right, even when it comes down to it, he has really.
The piece is called "Car", and is about Jonas's damaged engine, which is too expensive to repair, so his trusty "White Lightning" must be scrapped. Then ponders the author just over, the car was simply a pile of iron, a thing, as it is very healthy to let go of in order for it not to take space from it that has real value in life.
Now comes the Jesus-quote from "somewhere" (in which Gospel, chapter and verse I wonder?): "where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." Then the author asks a little back and forth, if we spend our time and effort on the real values, "What is it really, as being allowed to fill and seize our hearts? Does it match what really has value in life? " I miss greatly, that he deals with what Jesus thinks and what is for Jesus so the real values – as opposed to things? We don't get any answers on that.
The piece ends with that Jonas Serner-Pedersen talks about another treasure, namely us humans as Jesus sees as so valuable a treasure, that he gave his life for us. This treasure is Jesus's treasure, not ours. Jonas lays out with writing about our treasure, and ends by mentioning Jesus ' treasure, and thus ends the piece with being without point. It falls apart into two or three parts. As a chat. There is no biblical substance in it, and there is no personal testimony of a life with God in it.
It is sad and rather disturbing, I think.
Will anyone help this man?
Yours faithfully Lars Skov Krøgholt