“I hear nothing but whining out of you.”
And I hear nothing but the kind of crap the the OP speaks of from you.
Good morning, sunshine.
You're just a bundle of joy and encouragement.
There's a verse that says something about a log and mote.
Did it occur to you that telling someone that they're whining is a lessor thing than telling someone they're full of cr@p?
You ARE the OP.
I think I see the source of your problems then.
Perhaps the ministry is not where you belong yet.
“And I hear nothing but the kind of crap the the OP speaks of from you.”
So what are you going to do about it? Toss out your congregation because they don’t meet your expectations?
Your whining does nothing to help your personal incompetence as a clergyman. If you knew the first thing about leadership - of any kind - you’d realize that the reason the folks you are trying to lead don’t respect you is a personal failure, not a failure of those who look to you to lead.
You are so poorly suited to your job - you’ve turned a position that should be able do so much good and used it as a literal bully pulpit to castigate those looking to you to communicate the gospel to them as somehow being “haters” - not because you are completely ineffective, but because they have the temerity to be Protestants.
You should be fired, and are likely well on your way already!
You