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Originally Posted by KeptByTheWord
Scotty, I want to assure you that she is not lying when she is speaking about all the things that went on at her church. I believe you have a wonderful church fellowship to belong to, and perhaps you can't fathom this being the case, but it is true. In the area of Texas where she lives, with a UPC church on almost every street corner, and in every backwoods town, the stuff that goes on would blow your mind, and she probably hasn't even said the half of it.
It sometimes takes a while for those wounds to heal, and to move on, and a place like AFF is where healing can take place... where you see you are not the only one.
I am not saying or encouraging anyone to stop looking for a place to call their home church where the Spirit moves, and people are sincerely loving God. I am reminded of Elijah after he called down fire on the prophets of Bael, and then he went and sat down, and felt sorry for himself, feeling like he was all alone, and God told him that he still had seven thousand who hadn't bowed their knee.
Sometimes you feel you are all alone, in your situation, and it is places like AFF that help you understand there is hope. There are other people suffering too. And there are other people who are continuing on in the faith, despite difficult circumstances.
Until you have walked in someone's shoes, don't judge them. That is the way of Jesus, and not the way of man.
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Sometimes the wounds heal but the scars rarely do. I am still "disfigured" from my experience during most of the 80's. Of course I was a teen then and couldn't do anything about it, but as an adult I can.
Incidentally our pastor during these years was from that part of Texas your talking about and attempted (and in some ways succeeded and in other ways not as much) to bring this sort of gospel and way of doing things to Wisconsin. SINCE than many sources have told me that he has mellowed quite a bit and even been "broken" because of his pas actions. I honestly hold no grudges against HIM anymore but the situation has left me with a deep "I will NEVER let this happen again!" attitude.
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