“Don’t tell me what to do…”

Pastor Matthew Best
6 min readOct 29, 2021

There’s a battle going on??? Maybe that’s not the right word — seems a bit too extreme. There isn’t physical violence…yet.

There’s disagreements happening??? No, that doesn’t seem to capture the moment either.

There’s something happening and it’s not great. That’s seems more accurate.

I have witnessed public meetings as of late, and read about them too. They happen in a variety of settings — secular and churches too.

An outspoken group of people gather together and make demands — and that’s putting it…

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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.