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Originally Posted by Ohio
When the Lord told me to continue in Graduate School, the "brothers" were not happy about my decision. One elder told me that morning revival with the brothers was not adequate, and that I must also be responsible for the noon time campus meeting. Another elder told me that I was responsible for taking care of an abandoned house the church just purchased. Along with that I had two Lab courses to teach, and managed an apartment building I lived in. I had a wife and young child, but I trusted the brothers. Way too much. We were instructed that they "gave an account for our soul."
So much for that. Two months later, I lost both jobs. We were homeless. Dropped out of school. Do you think any of those elders ever apologized for overloading me? Hardly. Looking back, they often used us as slave labor. The third elder asked me to wire an addition to his house. At least he took me out to eat. Chinese food.
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Interesting terminology, slave labor. In the LSM churches located in my city, the elders are white - but they used the Hispanic/Asian population to do much of the dirty work. I will say one elder in particular got his hands dirty - but still delegated a TON of work to the people of color. He oversaw the properties owned by the organization. I think (or hope) they paid the poor Hispanic guy who did much of the grunt work, but they treated him like crap. I went out of my way to talk to this guy, bring him a water, help out, etc. they treated him like a second class citizen- must not have been good building material. There was a white brother did a lot of A/C and maintenance work. That guy left - and not on good terms. He was probably tired of so called “brothers in Christ” treating him like slave labor.
So sad.