As a writer I've experienced rejection slip shock, but last week was my first experience with someone requesting to be taken off an email. CStation currently is developing three email newsletters. I've discovered that rejection slip shock and someone rejecting an email newsletter feels about the same. But don't feel sorry for me.
Some rejection comes with the territory in any vocation be it preacher or poet.
What bothers me was the reason for the removal request. More email than they could read, they said, and besides, the person wasn't in a church leadership position at this time. The Anabaptist weren't the first or the last to support the concept of total shared Christian leadership. How far we have strayed into the wilderness of the professional pastorate that folks from the Anabaptist heritage have so little understanding of the importance of the priesthood of all believers concept. Point one in my advice is the need for a church to constantly exercise it's spiritual power through prayer and other means for discerning God's will.