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Post by Hw on Apr 15, 2022 12:41:48 GMT
I was struck by this chapter as it relates to my experience with the PR denomination. What do they think when reading it? I remember when I was a "good" PR...I thought I was being so good following the rules. But I didn't follow verses 6 through 12. I do now! Verse 7... Share your food with the hungry (not only if they are Christian), and give shelter to the homeless. (Not only to homeless Christians). Give clothes to those who need them (not only to the Christians) and then this one.. I'm saying it loud, for those in the back... AND DO NOT HIDE FROM RELATIVES WHO NEED YOUR HELP!!!!! (It says NOTHING about doing that only if they think or live just like you!) Happy Good Friday. Freedom is intoxicating and delicious! Such joy to be on this side. I cannot wait for my baptism on Easter Sunday❤️. Few understand what this represents, but I know most everyone here does. Thank you with all my heart to those coming and to those watching online. Your love and support brings tears of joy and I'm not ashamed of them. I'm am currently working on developing a group specifically created for healing for those destroyed and harmed by religious people. I need it to be done right and in a way that protects and feels safe. I'm going to pour love and acceptance into all that come, regardless of belief or where you are in life. Love. It always wins!
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Post by midwestchristian on Apr 15, 2022 14:18:18 GMT
I was struck by this chapter as it relates to my experience with the PR denomination. What do they think when reading it? I remember when I was a "good" PR...I thought I was being so good following the rules. But I didn't follow verses 6 through 12. I do now! Verse 7... Share your food with the hungry (not only if they are Christian), and give shelter to the homeless. (Not only to homeless Christians). Give clothes to those who need them (not only to the Christians) and then this one.. I'm saying it loud, for those in the back... AND DO NOT HIDE FROM RELATIVES WHO NEED YOUR HELP!!!!! (It says NOTHING about doing that only if they think or live just like you!) Happy Good Friday. Freedom is intoxicating and delicious! Such joy to be on this side. I cannot wait for my baptism on Easter Sunday❤️. Few understand what this represents, but I know most everyone here does. Thank you with all my heart to those coming and to those watching online. Your love and support brings tears of joy and I'm not ashamed of them. I'm am currently working on developing a group specifically created for healing for those destroyed and harmed by religious people. I need it to be done right and in a way that protects and feels safe. I'm going to pour love and acceptance into all that come, regardless of belief or where you are in life. Love. It always wins! I'm reading an excellent book right now called Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition by Christine Pohl. I would highly recommend it. Very convicting for me in terms of my own lack of interest, at times, in people who are strangers or different in some ways. The book is a huge indictment of the PRC, which takes lack of hospitality to an extreme.
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Post by Hw on Apr 15, 2022 15:14:09 GMT
I was struck by this chapter as it relates to my experience with the PR denomination. What do they think when reading it? I remember when I was a "good" PR...I thought I was being so good following the rules. But I didn't follow verses 6 through 12. I do now! Verse 7... Share your food with the hungry (not only if they are Christian), and give shelter to the homeless. (Not only to homeless Christians). Give clothes to those who need them (not only to the Christians) and then this one.. I'm saying it loud, for those in the back... AND DO NOT HIDE FROM RELATIVES WHO NEED YOUR HELP!!!!! (It says NOTHING about doing that only if they think or live just like you!) Happy Good Friday. Freedom is intoxicating and delicious! Such joy to be on this side. I cannot wait for my baptism on Easter Sunday❤️. Few understand what this represents, but I know most everyone here does. Thank you with all my heart to those coming and to those watching online. Your love and support brings tears of joy and I'm not ashamed of them. I'm am currently working on developing a group specifically created for healing for those destroyed and harmed by religious people. I need it to be done right and in a way that protects and feels safe. I'm going to pour love and acceptance into all that come, regardless of belief or where you are in life. Love. It always wins! I'm reading an excellent book right now called Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition by Christine Pohl. I would highly recommend it. Very convicting for me in terms of my own lack of interest, at times, in people who are strangers or different in some ways. The book is a huge indictment of the PRC, which takes lack of hospitality to an extreme. Thank you for the recommendation!! I will definitely read it. While I haven't given up complete hope for this "church", (I'm an eternal optimist on some things, especially when people i care for are still stuck there), I'm not going to wait for them to get their act together. I'm here for the ones suffering at their hands, and at the hands of other religious people. I'm not waiting anymore to see if they fix it or get things right. I have the passion and desire and the rest will happen! This forum shows me daily how many hurting and broken people there are in that denomination alone!! It's heartbreaking actually. Power hungry men, decades ago, decided they were speaking on behalf of God and determined themselves to be the truest, best, most Godly church around. Did they get that idea from God? I think not. God and true Christians didn't abuse and destroy me... religious people following the laws dictated by some men did. Christian love looks nothing like shunning and turning your back on family! Man, I wish my entire family was free of this horror. But my parents and brother love it and just a couple days ago used the "no church is perfect" reasoning in response to my email telling them of my baptism. It saddened me. I simply told them that I hoped they would not be part of covering abuse and that they would love on and shelter the victims. I told them bluntly how destructive and soul destroying it is as a woman to be told to shut up and go back to submitting to a physically/ emotionally/ mentally abusing rapist of a husband. Crickets. Nothing. No response and that tells me everything. Their love of that sect is far above anything they feel for me. It's been so long and I don't sit waiting anymore for them to love me. Life is waiting and I have things to accomplish!! If the PR/RP church has fear for what I want to do to uncover and expose the abuse and begin healing the abused, then I'll take it! We are called to have faith like a child, not faith like highly educated theologians and rule minded people. That kind of sounds like pharisees. There should be great joy in our faith. Not fear of shunning when you are in your darkest moments. Happy Good Friday!
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Post by Sophia M. on Apr 17, 2022 9:23:50 GMT
. No response and that tells me everything. Their love of that sect is far above anything they feel for me. It's been so long and I don't sit waiting anymore for them to love me. This resonates this morning. One of my past heartbreaking Easter mornings when I was sitting in the church library because the sanctuary was too painful a space . . . I heard the words read over the sound system. "Why do you seek the living among the dead?" I felt reassured that I was weeping for valid reasons, because being in that church on Easter felt like being in a place where I couldn't find Jesus at all, dead or alive. Those words encouraged me to stop expecting "graveyards" to be an automatic place where I could give or receive Jesus-energized care, hope, and comfort. I felt seen and known because a weeping woman somewhere else heard her name said in the graveyard, by someone who wasn't going to stay contained in a gravecave, even though it was where his enemies and friends had put his body there. Let the dead bury their dead . . we are going where we need to go to seek the Living One where he is now. . . . among those who are living! Happy Easter everyone. And Happy Christ is Risen Day to those who rely on the story that Death got bested once, and to those hope that the Grave can't hold any of its bodies forever.
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Post by Hw on Apr 20, 2022 12:58:17 GMT
. No response and that tells me everything. Their love of that sect is far above anything they feel for me. It's been so long and I don't sit waiting anymore for them to love me. This resonates this morning. One of my past heartbreaking Easter mornings when I was sitting in the church library because the sanctuary was too painful a space . . . I heard the words read over the sound system. "Why do you seek the living among the dead?" I felt reassured that I was weeping for valid reasons, because being in that church on Easter felt like being in a place where I couldn't find Jesus at all, dead or alive. Those words encouraged me to stop expecting "graveyards" to be an automatic place where I could give or receive Jesus-energized care, hope, and comfort. I felt seen and known because a weeping woman somewhere else heard her name said in the graveyard, by someone who wasn't going to stay contained in a gravecave, even though it was where his enemies and friends had put his body there. Let the dead bury their dead . . we are going where we need to go to seek the Living One where he is now. . . . among those who are living! Happy Easter everyone. And Happy Christ is Risen Day to those who rely on the story that Death got bested once, and to those hope that the Grave can't hold any of its bodies forever. I have read this numerous times and loved it each time. Thank you my friend for this!
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