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Re: Why am I labeled backslid and unusable by God
Ferd, my husband and I were in a church for 4.5 years (in leadership, but not teaching positions), and when we left we were negatively labelled by some, to put it mildly. I remember my husband going with me to a local campmeeting (after we had left) with a little grizzle on his face, and a preacher asked my friend if he was backslid. LOL!!!!! He had come from work, and didn't even really think that much about it. We just happened to run into someone who knew us when we went to "that" church. Our luck!!!!
The best thing to do is take it with a grain of salt, and have a good sense of humor. Many of the people we went to church with there are still our friends, and some who weren't have gradually come around.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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