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Ashland Theological Seminary a Project to Discover Reasons for Pastoral and Parishioner Conflict a Dissertation Submitted to T ASHLAND THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY A PROJECT TO DISCOVER REASONS FOR PASTORAL AND PARISHIONER CONFLICT A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF ASHLAND THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY IN CANDIDACY FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF MINISTRY BY RODERICK C. POUNDS, SR. ASHLAND, OHIO AUGUST 6, 2020 Copyright 2020 by Roderick C. Pounds, Sr. All rights reserved. DEDICATION To my mother, Dorothy Mae Hairston-Crockett To my wife, Deborah B. Pounds To my siblings, Deborah M. Pounds, Dorothy Michelle Pounds, and Robert C. Pounds, Jr. To my children, Roderick C. Pounds, Jr., Shannon T. Pounds, Ryan Clay Pounds and Johnny T. Bumphus To my pastorates, United Baptist Church, The Refuge Baptist Church, Inc., The Tabernacle of Glory Baptist Church, Inc., and The Second Baptist Church of Akron, Inc. To my siblings in the Lord, Dave and Beulah McDay, Laureathia Taylor and Gloria Glenn To my first and most committed Deacon Chairman, Wise Moore, Jr. To my Uncle, Marvin C. Hairston To my best friend, Rev. Anthony Wayne Bridges EPIGRAPH If the Preacher does not preach through the storm, what options are then left? Precisely none. There are times, admittedly, when the preacher will want to do anything but preach. There will be those moments of such spiritual barrenness and drought, those endless Saturday nights when the preacher can find nothing to say, much less the will to say it . Yet, this is precisely the moment, if one will make oneself available, that God can use both the preacher and the people to His purposes. In every sermon there is therapy---and there ought to be---for both pulpit and pew. There are no other options, there is no escape. The authentic preacher must preach through the storm. --H. Beecher Hicks, Jr. APPROVAL PAGE Accepted by the faculty and the final demonstration examining committee of Ashland Theological Seminary, Ashland, Ohio, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Ministry degree. __________________________ _____________ Academic Advisor Date __________________________ _____________ Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program Date ABSTRACT This project discovered the reasons for pastoral and parishioner conflict in Second Baptist Church, Akron, Ohio. Thirty-four participants completed a 5-point Likert scale questionnaire that was collected and analyzed. The data revealed that the participants indicated lack of trust, parishioners and personality differences as the main reasons for conflict between the pastor and parishioner at Second Baptist Church, Akron, Ohio. vi CONTENTS LIST OF TABLES………………………………………………………. viii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS………………………………………………. Ix CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION AND PROJECT OVERVIEW….................. 1 2. BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL, AND HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS… 25 3. REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE……………………………… 66 4. DESIGN, PROCEDURE, AND ASSESSMENT……………… 102 5. SUMMARY OF RESULTS…………………………….……….. 111 6. SUMMARY AND REFLECTIONS……………………………… 136 APPENDIX 1. PROPOSAL……………………………………………………….. 153 2. QUESTIONNAIRE……..……………………………………………. 179 REFERENCES………………..…………………………………………… 183 vii TABLES Tables Page 1. Table 1- Agreement (Goal #2) 116 2. Table 2- Disagreement (Goal #2) 121 3. Table 3- Open-Ended Question Reponses (Goal #3) 126 4. Table 4- Analysis of the Variety of Reasons for Conflict (Goal #4) 127 5. Table 5- Evaluate the Study 131 viii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS To God be the Glory who both called and equipped me to preach. The call to preach yet remains a burning desire within me. The words of the Great Apostle Paul inform me as to my divine purpose, “How shall they hear without a preacher, and how can he preach except he be sent?” This is what I have been called to do and the Black Church is to whom I have been called. Since the age of 23 when I assumed my first pastorate, pastoring the local Black Church has been my sole vocation. I know that God called me to this work and I am presently and precisely where God commissioned me to be. I am the pastor of Second Baptist Church, Akron, Ohio and I know that God has called me to these people for this time. To Dr. Sonia Rice, who urged me to complete this project and held me accountable for its completion. She has modeled for me what it means to be a seminarian as I witnessed her commitment to achieving both her Master of Divinity and Doctorate of Ministry Degrees while oftentimes facing herculean obstacles. I still hear her words, “Pounds, it's time to get busy and you’re running out of time.” She would quibble, “You need to get this done so that your mother can see you graduate.” How fortunate I was to have both her urging and most importantly, her assistance. To my late pastor and uncle, Rev. Robert F. Hairston, Jr., who taught me everything I know about preaching and pastoring. His son and my first cousin, the Rev. Robert F. Hairston, III remains my favorite preacher. Thank you cuz, for all that you poured into me. ix To Dr. William H. Myers, who inspired me to dig deeper into the word of God. He revolutionized for me what it means to be a black Baptist preacher. He helped me to discover how God’s Word speaks to the black pastor and the Black Church. He taught me how to think for myself and to see God through the lens of the black Christian experience. He is the single most influential religious personality in my life. To my uncle Marvin C. Hairston, who akin as a father for me. As a child, he inspired me and instilled confidence within me. He motivated me to grow academically and impressed upon me the importance of intellectual development. His words to me still ring to this day, “Son, always prepare yourself so that God can use you”. Those words I will never forget for they capture the giant of a man of whom I consider him to be to this very day. Ironically, my Uncle Marvin is both a source of inspiration and a source of deep emotional pain due to the pastoral and parishioner conflict we experienced. To my mother, Dorothy Mae Crocket, who is everything to me. My mommy loves me and her love remains the driving force of my life. This project is dedicated to her because the drive to make her proud and to please her is behind the completion of this project. When I felt like giving up the thought of her witnessing my commencement compelled me to finish. Finally, to my wife Deborah B. Pounds, who was the most persistent reminder that I must finish this project. She, like no other, held me accountable as a pastor, husband and student to be a good steward of my time in seminary. At times when I became lackadaisical and lethargic, she would urge me as well x as afford me the space to complete this work. I also dedicate this work to her for it could not have been completed apart from her love and support. xi CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION AND PROJECT OVERVIEW I know that I am a black Baptist preacher called to the black Baptist church. With regards to my family legacy, I come from a rich line of black Baptist pastors. It is all I have ever wanted to do. After accepting my call at the tender age of eighteen years old, preaching and pastoring is all I have ever done. My grandfather, the Reverend Robert F. Hairston Sr., and my grandmother, Arizona Hairston, once sat me down in their home and remarked, “Your grandfather’s mantle has fallen on you”. I can recall, from that evening’s chat with my grandparents, how much I cried afterwards. My thoughts regarding my calling are recorded in a book by William H. Myers (1992) entitled: The Irresistible Urge to Preach: A Collection of African American Call Stories. I remember so vividly and wrote these words regarding my call to ministry: So that night I just went to bed with those thoughts over and over going over in my mind, and certainly I became flustered and I was in tears. I was profusely crying and smiling at the same time. I immediately began to just pray because I was just so uncomfortable, and I felt so awkward and a little frightened. I couldn’t shake myself from the impulses inside. I just--I was moved. The burden that got placed on my heart revealed the truth. I had not really known my Bible then. I had been in church all of my life. I come from a rich tradition in preaching in my family. My grandfather, uncles and a long line of Hairstons. This is the family that I come from, which is pretty popular nationally. I knew that that’s what I was to do in life is to preach. I also recognized that a part of my fright and anxiety---I realized how limited I was, academically and educationally just in terms of interpreting God’s word. And I felt fear and trepidation from that perspective. But I know this is what I was called to do and therefore I just left school. (Pounds 1992, 287) 1 How could such a mantle fall on me? After all, through my adolescent eyes, my grandfather was larger than life. Years later, my uncle, the Reverend Robert F. Hairston Jr. would remark that I had “been chosen to continue the family legacy” as Pastor of the Refuge Baptist Church in Columbus, Ohio, founded in 1911 by my grandfather. In 1993, during the beginning of my 11th year as Pastor of United Baptist Church in Akron, Ohio, my maternal uncle, Marvin C. Hairston traveled from Columbus, Ohio with a portrait of my grandparents in hand. We met that evening in my church office with the intent to convince me of the need to return home to Co- Pastor with his brother, who was aged and ailing and unable to energetically fulfill his pastoral duties.
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