Week Seven Essay: church vs. campus

Week Seven Essay

People – Church vs. Campus

I think that there will be many differences between getting along with people on this college campus and getting along with people in the church you are working at. Some of these differences are.

1. At the campus you can avoid people if you want to, in the Church, as a pastor, you cannot avoid the people of your church so even if you are annoyed or clash with someone else you cannot avoid them

2. At the campus you can be respectful and courteous to the people you disagree or clash with, in the church you cannot just be respectful and courteous to the people of the church but you have to actually like them and carry on conversations with them and be involved with their life.

3. On a campus it is easier to get away from everyone by going home for a weekend or getting off campus for a day, in the church this is harder because it is your job to daily be involved with the people in your church. It is harder to take a weekend or a day off just because you want to.

4. There are usually less hurtful arguments or disagreements on a campus compared to the church. If someone on campus does something you don't like or disagree with then you can just choose to hang out with different people or just not do something with that individual, in the church disagreements are usually taken more personally and feelings are hurt and if people want to do something else they will usually have to leave the church and a lot of people get hurt through that.