So Much Hurt On This Forum

[Sister Alvear]

I love the church...I love the alters of the church...i love what the church represents however as humans we are all just that.... humans...we must pray and seek God for ourselves... we should never have to be ruled or subject to some Hitler type person. While we don't want to become church hoppers and we must all realize there is NO perfect church or pastor...we can with an open mind and a praying heart seek a spiritual anchor and refuge for our souls and our families.
I have had to walk away from relationships because I felt they were abusive and thought they owned us because of a missionary offering....I have lost supporters because I may not fit in their little homemade boxes.....however I refuse to bow down to some things...

I will do my best to be nice and kind as far as possible but a few times have had to walk away...

I want to be right with the Lord and have a right spirit. (I often fail) however some people are just not healthy to be around....some think they own heaven and have God on their little string and only their church saves...the other church across town that preaches almost the same thing is tainted and dark...

I feel deeply sorry for my friend Randy Wayne...so kind, so sweet but was driven ...and thus he suffers in his spirit....when will be ever learn NOT to drive people, but lead them?

Jesus our example sorry to say would not be welcome in some of the churches that SEEM to have it all together...for he was a friend to sinners, talked with the children and had women disciples following him...His clothes would be laughed at. His sermons would be mocked...HOWEVER it is HIS love and compassion that reaches to us all today....the condemning Pharisees that stood on the corners condemning built nothing lasting for eternity...they run the sinners away...

Do I believe something? Of course I do...hundreds of pictures on this forum alone shows that...a lifetime of service....however when we begin to think of ourselves higher than a servant we have got it all wrong....We are called to serve and point others to the healer, the savior...
We are not gods walking around or Jesus in the flesh as some preach...we are just workers together with Him...

When people get a high elevated opinion of themselves that is when they decide they are Jesus in the flesh....