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04-11-2009, 03:29 PM
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Not riding the train
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 48,544
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Re: Do Your Kids Dress Like Bankers?
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Originally Posted by Sherri
PO-- while I agree with some of what you've saying, please don't be hard on Lisa. Until you've been there, you can't imagine the emotions you go through when you leave the thing you've been raised in all your life, especially when you've been taught that leaving will basically mean you won't be saved. It's hard to go against the trend and step out into something new, no matter what it is. But when it concerns eternity, and the eternity of your children, it's really hard. You have to KNOW THAT YOU KNOW that it's the right decision, and that only comes with much prayer and fasting.
But once you've made that choice, it doesn't mean that a piece of your heart doesn't remain with the ones that you've left. UPC is so much a part of who I am, because they are the ones who introduced me to the power of God and brought me to salvation. I will always honor them for that. But that doesn't mean that I am going to agree with them on many things. Some people think that I don't have a right to speak up about anything in the organization since I've left, but I don't see it that way. There's still alot of my heart that is connected. And I guess that's why lots of us hang out on these forums.
Hope that makes sense!!!
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Thank you, Sherri. If I have been hard on her, then I'm sorry.
When I read posts like these, threads like these, I think of all that we have been through (not anything on the level of things that Jesus suffered), but we've been through a lot!
I've seen God move, answer our prayers, uphold us, honor us, move mountains and cause us to continue standing, walking, believing......
I look and see people say things about the very ones that I pray for and with. People I fellowship and worship with. People who, in their hearts, want to feel God's presence more than anything. Who want God to help them "want" to be less carnal and be more like HIM.
I then become annoyed and a little angry. We are ALL frail and in need of God. We cannot make it without Him. How can we point fingers and talk about things and people like this when we know that? I just don't get it.
I'm not above mistakes and temptations. I've come out of personal prayer times saying, "Thank you, God, for allowing me to pray today."
I think, including myself, we need to do better than this. For the sake of the Kingdom. I have to start with myself. I joke around a lot on this forum, but I'm like everyone else - I just want God more than anything. I'm no different than anyone else.
The only thing we can do is follow, for ourselves, the direction God has placed in our lives. If we have a heart like Abraham and follow, even in the times we don't understand, we will make it!
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