In this Q&A video, Pastor Bill shares advice with young leaders on how to face opposition and the process of learning to walk in forgiveness.

what advice would you give someone who

is young in their leadership

well it’s something maybe that you wish

someone had told you

back before you guys started pastoring

in weaverville all those years ago

well the the hardest thing for me in the

early years was

how to face opposition it’s it’s not as

big a deal today but

but it really really did affect me and

i i remember i remember the lord

led me into a process

where i knew the day before that i was

going to

get a pretty heavy-handed slap of a

friend

and i knew i knew it 24 hours at a time

because he spoke to me out of the book

of lamentations

and he said give your cheek to the

smiter perhaps there’s hope

put your face in the dust and then

basically

uh you know i forget how it goes uh

maybe i’ll save you or something like

that you know

it was like oh no that’s tomorrow you

know i didn’t want to wake up

and uh and sure enough it’s exactly what

he told me and so i

i i had to walk through a process

of learning to walk in forgiveness and

to honor a person to value a person

even though i had been accused of some

pretty horrible things

and they were very important person in

my life and

so i walked through that for one year

when we had communion to break bread

with them and

confess my love to them call them on new

new years to wish them happy new years

just

doing all the things that hurt inside

but they hurt good they hurt because

something was dying that was supposed to

die so to speak

and at the end of the year he came back

to me said you were right i’m so sorry

so it was it was worth it but it was it

was like the lord spoke to me in that

season he said it’s important that you

face this new youth

i want to train you for something but

it’s going to hurt

so yeah so that that’s

i don’t know that anybody telling me

anything would have helped me it’s kind

of something you just have to experience