truth
10-27-2005, 11:17 AM
they just don't get it, do they?
they just don't get it.....last night after attending the mid-week service at our former church, our friend was speaking with the pastors who were quering him as to why we left and the senior pastor told him, basically, we didn't need to do any work there, we should keep coming and just attend the Sunday services.....
they just don't get it.......what I now know being out of there, being here, reading the books, etc - is that its about what I really believe......
And I don't believe what they believe anymore.....at first after I left, I thought it was about leaving one church and going to another one but it wasn't that at all....
It was about redefiining and questioning all of the things they taught us and now trying to sift through it all and find out what I believe......and what I have discovered is that except for the basics, I don't believe in very much of what they believe and how they go about "doing church" that's all....
And I guess if I were put on the spot to talk to them today, that's what I would say to them - I am not you and you are not me! However you choose to do "church and spirituality" is your business but I have left and now am in the process of seeking God and his plan for me and my life and unfortunately it doesn't include You anymore........it's different now.
I'm a visual person and I get an image in my mind of us trying to walk away while they're hanging on to our legs and we're dragging them!
I also know how they think and I know how fearful they are that we are out "from under the covering" and they think that we need protection or else disaster will befall us! I also know they believe it is their responsibility to do everythiing in their power to "protect us" because they will have to give an accounting someday to the Lord for our souls!
I have begun to learn of a brand new God (He was always the real God) who is so very different and so much greater and kinder, merciful and loving than the gods they serve......I have left and will never EVER go back there.
thanks for listening
they just don't get it.....last night after attending the mid-week service at our former church, our friend was speaking with the pastors who were quering him as to why we left and the senior pastor told him, basically, we didn't need to do any work there, we should keep coming and just attend the Sunday services.....
they just don't get it.......what I now know being out of there, being here, reading the books, etc - is that its about what I really believe......
And I don't believe what they believe anymore.....at first after I left, I thought it was about leaving one church and going to another one but it wasn't that at all....
It was about redefiining and questioning all of the things they taught us and now trying to sift through it all and find out what I believe......and what I have discovered is that except for the basics, I don't believe in very much of what they believe and how they go about "doing church" that's all....
And I guess if I were put on the spot to talk to them today, that's what I would say to them - I am not you and you are not me! However you choose to do "church and spirituality" is your business but I have left and now am in the process of seeking God and his plan for me and my life and unfortunately it doesn't include You anymore........it's different now.
I'm a visual person and I get an image in my mind of us trying to walk away while they're hanging on to our legs and we're dragging them!
I also know how they think and I know how fearful they are that we are out "from under the covering" and they think that we need protection or else disaster will befall us! I also know they believe it is their responsibility to do everythiing in their power to "protect us" because they will have to give an accounting someday to the Lord for our souls!
I have begun to learn of a brand new God (He was always the real God) who is so very different and so much greater and kinder, merciful and loving than the gods they serve......I have left and will never EVER go back there.
thanks for listening