I am praying for you. My only advice and it is sincere and serious is to ignore those on this thread urging you to take a break from church. The worst advice ever. If you will notice at least one of them giving it took a "break from church " years ago and is still on that break.
If your current church is not ministering to you effectively I am all for you finding one that will. Please just don't lose sight of the fact that the Bible clearly states that God gave us pastors, teachers ,etc for a reason.
More than ever when you are stressed you need spiritual support and guidance and most of all love from a local assembly of believers.
It is not the worst advice ever. Depending on the situation it is the BEST (or worst), or somewhere in the middle, advice ever.
I know it kept me alive.
Now the difference between Matt and me is that I was a teen who had no way to escape the hellish grasp of the Pod People. Matt is older and already on his own and fully capable of changing churches.
And by the way, it IS possible that one may never come back from that break........ But I haven't lost my faith.
Last edited by RandyWayne; 06-25-2012 at 06:49 PM.
Matt...if I was closer dude we'd just go hang and decompress....you just need somebody to empathize....not to lecture you...its easy for people to stand from afar and be distanced from the situation and proclaim "Be warm and be filled"...I think its just something you are walking through brother and you need some friends to walk with you....
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Blessed are the merciful for they SHALL obtain mercy.
I automatically assign of that status of "Worst. Advice. Ever." to anything coming from him.
Well, I understand...but at least check the ingredients in your happy pills...prozac is mostly fluoride? You think more than about .01% of the pop needs some pill to be right? I'm not aware of anyone on that stuff who is level for any amount of time. And pot recommended only if it's legal in your area, of course.
I automatically assign of that status of "Worst. Advice. Ever." to anything coming from him.
Ha, how do you like me now? A B12 deficiency will make you suicidal, btw. Same with Omega 3, which you get like none of, it's only used by every cell in your body, hello; or vitamin D. Which have all completely disappeared from Safeway food. But BAM, trash me if it helps you.
__________________ "I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
I am praying for you. My only advice and it is sincere and serious is to ignore those on this thread urging you to take a break from church. The worst advice ever. If you will notice at least one of them giving it took a "break from church " years ago and is still on that break.
If your current church is not ministering to you effectively I am all for you finding one that will. Please just don't lose sight of the fact that the Bible clearly states that God gave us pastors, teachers ,etc for a reason.
More than ever when you are stressed you need spiritual support and guidance and most of all love from a local assembly of believers.
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Happy moments, PRAISE GOD.
Difficult moments, SEEK GOD.
Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD.
Painful moments, TRUST GOD.
Every moment, THANK GOD.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
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