I WAS IN MY NEW PASTORATE for less than three months when one of the founding laymen took me to lunch. “It seems to me,” he started out, “and I’ve confirmed this with a number of other key people in the church, that you may not be the right person for this job after all.” He pointed to a couple of insignificant (at least to me) changes I had made in the worship service and how that had offended some people involved in our music program. “In fact,” he warned, “there are a growing number of