Conviction! Conviction? Conviction…

Pastor Matthew Best
7 min readMay 31, 2024

I serve as the pastor of a church with an old building that is constantly in need of attention. This becomes all the more important because we house several free clinics.

We’ve been having sewer issues. It’s a combination of old sewer lines that are addressed in piecemeal fashion, a limited pool of resources that prevents us from completely gutting and replacing everything, and people with various capacities and knowledge of appropriate use of bathroom facilities.

This week we had a blockage in our pipes which came about from someone stuffing…

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Pastor Matthew Best

My name is Matthew Best. I’m an ELCA (Lutheran) pastor who attempts to translate church and churchy stuff into everyday language.