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Originally Posted by whollyHis
In prayer today, I told the Lord that I felt 'disappointed' and 'let down' by my church family...immediately, I was stricken with condemnation. After prayer, I began to analyze just WHAT is the role of the church, when it comes to our own personal struggles? After all, everyone has their own battles that they are warring with...the 'church' didn't cause my problems, overall- why should I expect the 'church' to help 'fix' ME???
Am I being selfish and unreasonable? Am I having a pity party??
Any thoughts on this?? Am I beating the proverbial 'dead horse' with this thread?? I hope not...I am really struggling right now with some things...
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I personally think that we, as the church body, should encourage eachother......but for some of things i've been though, we didn't let the church family know....We didn't talk about our problems so many times the church was unaware....You have to remember that everyone is sooo busy and the other church members are probably thinking that the church is letting them down too because they , too, have struggles.
One of the beauties in serving the Lord: My husband and I went through a major trial and he couldn't find a job....We had nothing and he was up early in the morning praying and told God that we had food for breakfast and lunch for the day and that was it.....God had to work a miracle. We didn't tell anyone abou this...We trusted in God solely. A man in our church stopped by that afternoon with bags and bags of groceries and took us to his house for dinner that night. He said that on his way to work about 3-4 that morning, God told him to this for us!!! God has a way of providing....He will always help you when it seems no one else is. I could always count on God to speak to me when I was going through it....Many times when our Pastor would preach, he would preach right to us things that we had to God alone about. God knows how to handle us!!!! Be encouraged in the Lord....