I debated about even linking back to this. but you can see from the date of the post it isnt new.
maybe it helps. maybe its too long and gives you tired head to read. but it is a small part of the life ive lived.
Maybe I have been too hard here. I still firmly believe that we own our own emotions...or we die. it may take a long time to get there God knows it did me, but in the mean time, I lived it myself. I didnt drag others into my ordeal(s).
Ferd..
I didnt come on here to drag people in my ordeal. This is a forum and I thought it was a good place to just get stuff off my chest. I thought it would be best to write on a forum where it couldn’t and won’t have an impact on my church.
I didnt expect to come on here and get some AMAZING revelation as to why things are the way they are nor did I hope any of you would give me a solution or quick fix. I really am not here to whine or get pity from you and Im sure you are aware of that, again just needed to get it off my chest.
I appreciate all the responses this thread has received and if anything it had done me good to just talk about it, even if not understood by some of you.
Ferd..
I didnt come on here to drag people in my ordeal. This is a forum and I thought it was a good place to just get stuff off my chest. I thought it would be best to write on a forum where it couldn’t and won’t have an impact on my church.
I didnt expect to come on here and get some AMAZING revelation as to why things are the way they are nor did I hope any of you would give me a solution or quick fix. I really am not here to whine or get pity from you and Im sure you are aware of that, again just needed to get it off my chest.
I appreciate all the responses this thread has received and if anything it had done me good to just talk about it, even if not understood by some of you.
I am glad for you and I mean that honestly.
i think those of us who have taken you to task understand more than we care to share. I know at least parts of some of these peoples stories. It would amaze you. believe me many who have been kind of hard on you have walked exactly where you are....
my prayer for you and your family is that you come thru it unscathed and still in love with Jesus.
and check that link it might help some.
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i think those of us who have taken you to task understand more than we care to share. I know at least parts of some of these peoples stories. It would amaze you. believe me many who have been kind of hard on you have walked exactly where you are....
my prayer for you and your family is that you come thru it unscathed and still in love with Jesus.
and check that link it might help some.
Awwwww, ya big softy!
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i think those of us who have taken you to task understand more than we care to share. I know at least parts of some of these peoples stories. It would amaze you. believe me many who have been kind of hard on you have walked exactly where you are....
my prayer for you and your family is that you come thru it unscathed and still in love with Jesus.
and check that link it might help some.
Im going to read it now.
it seems the best thing I can do is turn the other cheek and let the words roll off my back. Those who truely desire to keep our friendship will be just that or at least come around in the end.
i think those of us who have taken you to task understand more than we care to share. I know at least parts of some of these peoples stories. It would amaze you. believe me many who have been kind of hard on you have walked exactly where you are....
my prayer for you and your family is that you come thru it unscathed and still in love with Jesus.
and check that link it might help some.
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Oh good grief. what a silly post!
I am supposed to believe that you have been in leadership in a conservative UPCI church for years now and you are “shocked” that those folks are worried about you since it seems you are “going charismatic”?
Get real dude, you know full well what the attitudes are in conservative circles about those who are more liberal than they are. And if you have been any kind of leader at all, you know the people of your church as well as you know anyone on the planet.
So you are “shocked” because it helps your conscience or you aren’t shocked at all and this is just another chance to “bash the UltraCons”. Or maybe you aren’t in leadership at all. I don’t know which it is but there is a lack of honesty happening here and I suspect you are the one you aren’t being honest with.
Don’t blame these people for you turning your back on them! Yea, I said it! YOU are the one walking away, they haven’t gone anywhere. YOU are rejecting what THEY ARE. It isn’t the other way around. Ostensibly (according to you) you have been teaching these people for years how to act and look. Now you are walking away from your own teaching.
This is about YOU bro. It is not now, nor has it ever been about the people you have been going to church with that aren’t changing.
Ferd..
I didnt come on here to drag people in my ordeal. This is a forum and I thought it was a good place to just get stuff off my chest. I thought it would be best to write on a forum where it couldn’t and won’t have an impact on my church.
I didnt expect to come on here and get some AMAZING revelation as to why things are the way they are nor did I hope any of you would give me a solution or quick fix. I really am not here to whine or get pity from you and Im sure you are aware of that, again just needed to get it off my chest.
I appreciate all the responses this thread has received and if anything it had done me good to just talk about it, even if not understood by some of you.
And that is perfectly fine - - there have been many that have gone though that very thing and just to realize that your feelings are normal is a good thing.
No one can answer why it happens, well, we can, but it doesn't change the fact that it does.
Next time I'll block PO/Ferd from your thread - lololol!
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Ferd..
I didnt come on here to drag people in my ordeal. This is a forum and I thought it was a good place to just get stuff off my chest. I thought it would be best to write on a forum where it couldn’t and won’t have an impact on my church.
I didnt expect to come on here and get some AMAZING revelation as to why things are the way they are nor did I hope any of you would give me a solution or quick fix. I really am not here to whine or get pity from you and Im sure you are aware of that, again just needed to get it off my chest.
I appreciate all the responses this thread has received and if anything it had done me good to just talk about it, even if not understood by some of you.
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