5 Things AFF Doesn't Know About Me!

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by ILG

Yes, I did regret it at one time, but now I am definatlely glad to see both sides. It took me a number of years in the church to eventually come to the understanding that just as it was hard for me to understand church culture, it was hard for the church culture to understand me. It was hard because, of course, I was expected to change and the church felt it had already arrived at a certain pinnacle of knowledge and understanding. This placed me (and it does many people) at a serious disadvantage. But, I had an internal knowledge that if I just kept my face to the grindstone that things would turn. And they did. We can't change anyone but ourselves. That's pretty much the bottom line to that.

Can you correct my typo since you put it in bold? It should say, "I have never regretted....." LOL!

When I look back, and this is just me, it wasn't the church that was hardest on me. I was hard on myself. I wanted to feel like I had been good all of my life and that I had no baggage to contend and wrestle with. It was me that, at times, wanted to reach back and hold on to things that I needed to let go of. I can't fault the church on those points.