Last Sunday, the Yamashita family didn't attend the church. Yamashita Okusan (the wife) sees everyone in church as a hypocrite, so she had not being attending the church for the last 10 Sundays. Her husband went alone with his children. Last Sunday, he gave up (let us say) and went to another church suitable to his wife's wish.
I told him that he is not wrong: our little church is not the only church and I think that, it's not a great sin to move to another church; mainly for saving the marriage. If she wanted to go to a "macumba center (witchcraft) ", it would be a very different situation.
I talked to our new pastor yesterday, he thinks different. Yamashita san should stand firm, even risking his marriage, because it will not solve his wife problems (he was not very specific about her problem) and leaving the church turns into a bad testimony to his children.
Yamashita san (the husband) has a small business and decided to help one unemployed member (Kang); so they opened a new small business in another place. This new small business turned belly up, they fought, Yamashita Okusan was very displeased with all this situation and, although Kang's family had already left our small church, she couldn't go there anymore due to an employee (now unemployed) who is still in our church.
We, my family, went to the church today. The sensei (senior pastor) was very worried about our position as my children are lonely without the Yamashita's children companion.
