Where has Grace and Love gone...

[Rudy]

Originally Posted by AreYouReady?

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Since I agree with these basic tenets of Salvation, why can't people love me just because I am a fellow believer. Why do they try to make me be a carbon copy of the rest of the women and reject me and others who do not comply?

It may be a cultural thing. Same reason why many don't accept inter-racial marriage. If you don't look and act like them you will not be accepted.

[AreYouReady?]

Originally Posted by Rudy

It may be a cultural thing. Same reason why many don't accept inter-racial marriage. If you don't look and act like them you will not be accepted.

Rudy, all I have to say is that is really SAD if this is the case to base one's acceptance in the Lord on looks and not by the heart.

[Rudy]

Originally Posted by AreYouReady?

Rudy, all I have to say is that is really SAD if this is the case to base one's acceptance in the Lord on looks and not by the heart.

Well, in many assemblies it is a reality. Not all are like that. It's a big world out there and there is a body of believers that are waiting for you. Seek and you shall find.

[AreYouReady?]

Originally Posted by Rudy

Well, in many assemblies it is a reality. Not all are like that. It's a big world out there and there is a body of believers that are waiting for you. Seek and you shall find.

Yeah, I had a long chat one time with the wife of a UPC minister who left the organization. She had told me that they were going through somewhat the same ostracization. She said even some lies had been told on them. One of the lies were that they were engaging in wife-swapping.

Her husband was a powerful minister. We traveled 100 miles round trip to visit their church services several times.

I don't know what happened to them. That church folded up.