Abuse Thread

[Blubayou]

Originally Posted by Rhoni

Speaking of abuse....Someone took the liberty to help me out with my issues in relation to my son's upcoming wedding. We women post all our grievances and concerns on Dear Gabby's for prayer and advice and seeking the counsel of many...and I participated.

Someone took it a step farther though...went to three forums, cut and pasted all my posts and sent them to my children. My ex-husband's wife has been posting here under a psuedo name and trying to cause trouble.

To the person who thought they were helping...shame on you. To me for posting my problems here...shame on me. The definition of an idiot is: " When a person continues to do the same thing, in the same way, hoping to get a different result. This is me. I am an idiot.

The abuse against myself has to stop. So it is stopping here. To those who don't like my profession and think it against God...well, you are welcome to your opinion, Chancellor in particular.

To those who like contacting Pastors and children with the intent to cause trouble... bless you. To the administrative staff trying to deal with it...I appreciate all your efforts but this is something I will have to handle.

I have enjoyed my postings on the past three forums and it has kept me sane, for the most part...now it is time to move on. For my own sake.

Love & Blessings, Rhonda

So- Sorry that someone had to stoop this low- I hope you can come back in the future. I enjoy your perspective. Praying for you.

[LadyChocolate]

Originally Posted by Chan

I thought you were referring to pastors' wives. In any event, there are also men who just sit on the pew and hold the ministry to a higher standard.

Yes, we do have a different view: mine is the biblical one. I think it is sin the way many saints in the pew scrutinize the pastor's wife but would object to be scrutinized the same way.

Hey, you used a smiley!!! way to go!! And you are right about how saints would object if they were scrutizied the way some of them do the ministry....

Originally Posted by BoredOutOfMyMind

Chan, your views of zero use of ladies in a church are well known.

You base this statement on what?

That you appear to be accusing me of believing in "zero use of ladies in a church" is evidence that you don't have even the remotest clue about my views.

Show me where I said in any AFF thread even remotely resembling "zero use of ladies in a church." What part of my statement, "The Bible gives specific guidance with regard to women in the Church and that guidance has nothing to do with whether a woman is married to the pastor. It does, however, have to do with such things as age" says "zero use of ladies in a church"? Show me where "But the pastor's wife is not part of 'the ministry'" is the same thing as "zero use of ladies in the church."

If you do not show me where I said anything on AFF that causes you to conclude that I believe in "zero use of ladies in a church," then everyone reading this post should take your failure to show it as evidence that you are merely taking your own perceptions and things you read into what I've said (considering the relatively few posts I've made in AFF) and are projecting them onto me. Further, everyone reading this post should view your accusation that I believe in "zero use of ladies in the church" as bearing false witness because your perceptions and interpretations are not witnesses to my thoughts or beliefs.

Not all of us agree, and having witnessed my Godly Mother-in-law do a great job inspiring other ladies for over 25 yrs, I think there is a great need for the same in the church today.

Proverbs 31 applies.

What part of "The Bible gives specific guidance with regard to women in the Church and that guidance has nothing to do with whether a woman is married to the pastor. It does, however, have to do with such things as age" did you not understand that you disagree with: 1) That the pastor's wife is not part of "the ministry" (as in pastors and elders); 2) That the Bible doesn't really say the saints in the pews are allowed to meet a lower standard; or 3) That LadyChocolate said that the ministry was to be an example of what the saints are supposed to be?

[Charlie Brown]

With all this abuse going on, I figured someone was gonna need this thread soon.

[ILG]

Originally Posted by Rhoni
Speaking of abuse....Someone took the liberty to help me out with my issues in relation to my son's upcoming wedding. We women post all our grievances and concerns on Dear Gabby's for prayer and advice and seeking the counsel of many...and I participated.

Someone took it a step farther though...went to three forums, cut and pasted all my posts and sent them to my children. My ex-husband's wife has been posting here under a psuedo name and trying to cause trouble.

To the person who thought they were helping...shame on you. To me for posting my problems here...shame on me. The definition of an idiot is: " When a person continues to do the same thing, in the same way, hoping to get a different result. This is me. I am an idiot.

The abuse against myself has to stop. So it is stopping here. To those who don't like my profession and think it against God...well, you are welcome to your opinion, Chancellor in particular.

To those who like contacting Pastors and children with the intent to cause trouble... bless you. To the administrative staff trying to deal with it...I appreciate all your efforts but this is something I will have to handle.

I have enjoyed my postings on the past three forums and it has kept me sane, for the most part...now it is time to move on. For my own sake.

Love & Blessings, Rhonda

If someone sent my posts to my children, I would be livid! It's just the principle of the thing. And I'm not divorced either.

[nathan_slatter]

Originally Posted by ILG

If someone sent my posts to my children, I would be livid! It's just the principle of the thing. And I'm not divorced either.

My children are too young to understand everything I post, but I agree -- the lack of Christianity is quite apparent.