She squealed and hugged me. I had second thoughts later. A healthy family cherishes each member and seeks to find wholeness as individuals and as a group. There is room for embracing, stretching, letting go. There always seems to be a segment in every congregation that feels it must make a quick value judgment about them about the minister.
People tend too easily to divide into camps, thus giving life in the church a political flavor.
This has been true since the time of Paul. It doesn't need to be this way. Too often we misread people. Too often it isn't even necessary. The hope is that everyone will set ministry and devotion to Jesus Christ as the primary goal.