The truth is we just have a normal life, because we do have a church where our children are growing up pastor's children. And we just try to keep it really normal.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you're a preacher's kid, you see the church differently.
Being a pastor is pressure because we have to counsel people.
Through the ages, God has used the church to keep alive and pass down the story of what Christ has done for us.
I grew up going to church three times a week in my family. It's been a center of my life.
Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin people's lives, and you ruin your own life.
I grew up in the church, and I feel very strongly about it.
When pastors don't have rich spiritual lives with Christ, they become victimized by other models of success - models conveyed to them by their training, by their experience in the church, or just by our culture.
I always felt that church is where I'm going to find my community and people to live my life with.
I think in church you're raised like God is God and you are here.
What I thought as a young adult is you act like you have it together whether or not you do because that is what church people do. That is not what God has called us to do.