Re: Lanny Wolfe Trio Coming To Louisiana, Jan. 26!
 

The past doesn't have to define you or set your goals for the future. Even Paul said, "Forgetting those things which are behind...I press toward the mark..."

All of us need to be careful not to let the past keep us bound. I appreciate Bro. Neckstadt and respect him highly. This is not something I haven't said to him before. He has so many own personal excellent qualities that he does not have to stay in the shadow of his father's past glories.

Blessings, Rhoni

Re: Lanny Wolfe Trio Coming To Louisiana, Jan. 26!
 

And I still didn't know about it!!!

Re: Lanny Wolfe Trio Coming To Louisiana, Jan. 26!
 

I thought I told you?

Blessings, Rhoni

Re: Lanny Wolfe Trio Coming To Louisiana, Jan. 26!
 

Somehow I got skipped and I had a step-brother and a step-sister on the program... O well...

Re: Lanny Wolfe Trio Coming To Louisiana, Jan. 26!
 

I'm sorry Pastor G. You weren't purposely left out. I remember helping PN with the 10 year reunion and although we did our best...not everyone was located. Please forgive whoever was in charge...they did the best they could.

Blessings, Rhoni

Re: Lanny Wolfe Trio Coming To Louisiana, Jan. 26!
 

Thanks for the advice. I have moved on. I do however stand up when folks just keep putting just their spin on folks and situations.

It works both ways.

If you do not want to hear another side.

Stop speaking as if what you know is the only truth about someone or events.

You might not like what you hear.

I am done with this conversatio.

Who you don't know is me personally.

Re: Lanny Wolfe Trio Coming To Louisiana, Jan. 26!
 

Integrity will get in the way of dreams and can cause others to derail your destiny.

But as I am finding out God will then only make your destiny a better place.

As for dreams and destiny.

I will take integrity over both.

Re: Lanny Wolfe Trio Coming To Louisiana, Jan. 26!
 

Hopefully not too far off topic here but Pastor, in Bible Study tonight on Philippians 3, was making the point that "forgetting" has more a sense of not allowing the wrongs or sins of the past that have been forgiven to affect or influence us anymore.

We don't "forget" in the sense that we fail to remember and neither does God. How could He? He's God after all.

But we can put that junk in the past where it belongs and where it no longer affects or has any influence on us.

I thought it was a good point and had never heard "forgetting those those things which are behind" explained in that way before.

Re: Lanny Wolfe Trio Coming To Louisiana, Jan. 26!
 

Felicity,

I have often said that the past has a purpose... it just was never intended to be a dwelling place!

One of the most beautiful things about grace is that it has the power to FULLY RESTORE VIRTUE! Every time we leave the throne room of grace, we leave as innocents, freshly covered by the blood having all the past weight of sin removed from our lives! I must confess that is by GRACE through FAITH that we are saved because it takes a lot of FAITH to believe and accept what I just said! :)

Re: Lanny Wolfe Trio Coming To Louisiana, Jan. 26!
 

* sigh *

This whole thread has drained me emotionally. Here's how I see it:

Imagine for a moment that someone in your family, whom you love dearly, has does something horribly wrong. You still love that person. You may go visit them ocassionally in spite of the hurt they have caused others. No, you may not agree with the lifestyle they are now living, but that does not mean you are CONDONING (sp?) it...you are just stopping by to say "hi".

For those who are NOT related to that person, they are very quick to jump up and scream "Off with their head". But those who are related want to love the PERSON in spite of what they did. They are not so quick to send them to the gas chambers.

That's what life at JCM was like...it was a family. I not only graduated from there, I went back and worked there....was Lanny's personal secretary. As Pianoman stated earlier, I like to remember the GOOD that he did and the influence he had on our lives. Yes, he was a perfectionist and was quick to cut someone off who didn't measure up. But that made some of us want to strive to do better. He set the bar high, and we excelled because of it.

I was working for him when everything went down. I was sickened by it all. But when I got home that summer, I had to turn on the answering machine because so many people were calling wanting to know "the scoop". Had they actually been in "the family", they would have known it was more than just a "scoop"...it was a life-altering experience.

So whether you want him exiled to an island or you want to have him over for dinner, please keep in mind that for those who experienced the "JCM Family", this is not a black-or-white situation. We tend to look at it from a different perspective.