Why are some x-UPCers so set on bashing the UPC???

Originally Posted by rgcraig

.....and Darty, that's not bashing - that's just some of the crazy truth out there!

RG... and I had to cut it short.. oh if I had all the time to just let things roll out of my head that I know... It is amazing the things we have been through in our ministry for the LORD! lol Sometimes I really understand the song the kids signed the other day I am crucified with Christ and yet I live.

I don't seek to bash any org or belief but do really understand that we are all so far from where we should be. There are things I have been taught as truths all my life that as an adult I look at and say ...thats not right lol. Its crazy the things we hold as heaven or hell issues and how quickly we judge and send folks to hell over things that are not even issues at all. I love the truth I have and am so ashamed of the thought of the truth I thought I had and found out it was a bag full of holes. I pray I am an example of HIM and fear that great response set before me... to teach my children the truth and how to truly walk with Him and be like Him. The hardest part is once you see truth... how do you deal with the church and there conceptions of truth. I told my husband once it would be so much easier to live what I believe if we moved far away from family an friends... and how they think I should do, say and act. Church is suppose to be a place of freedom peace joy and love... and I just don't see it much anymore. I go because I'm suppose I live like I do because that is what I am suppose to do and I act like I do because I am just me
Although if we moved away and changed things in our lives I wouldn't change the way I look or act but there would be some changes....that would spin the heads of those who know me well
Just find it hard to call things sin that I use to call sin so easily and to label folks sinners that have more of God working in there lives then 95% of the folks sitting on the pew with me.