Kenneth Quick has written an article that appears in the Leadership Journal in which he talks about Attachment Disorder churches. He relates them to children from countries like Romania and Russia who've been adopted by US parents who get endless love but sometimes still wind up being unable to received the love, because of what's happened to them in the past. I'm not sure that his analogy works all the way, but what he has to say about relationshiops between pastors and their churches is well worth thinking about. The way the people in some churches get hurt and then unintentionally take it out on future pastors is worth noting, and the way in which pastors can unintentionally hurt their congregations through unrealistic expectations is also worth thinking over.
See the whole article here.
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