Reply #31: Option #3: Odd youth group leader who's got it wrong.

[knitter4democracy]

We had a youth group leader when I was in middle school who was weird. He was pretty far into right-winger land for a Nazarene, and there were times we just looked at each other in amazement during lessons and games because of what he said. I got out of his Sunday School class as soon as I could (talked an adult teacher into letting me be in his class). He was replaced as soon as they found an associate pastor who could take over the youth group. Pastor Doug was amazed at some of the things we'd been told and had to spend some time fixing it.

Sometimes churches don't vet the actual personal beliefs of their youth group leaders, assuming that they know what the church teaches and will stick to that. It doesn't always work out that way.