I replied, for the first time since ordainment last December, in my group of ministers today. The topic is Gay Rights and Addiction (I dont know how they ended up paired, but well, Im starting to realize a few horrible things about my brothers and sisters.... Here is my post....please read my questions at the end and let me know what you think...honestly.... Thank you. I joined this site several months ago and have silently read and listened to the conversations...some have even made me question my faith and decision to dedicate my life to ministry....The above quote, and everything you say after it, remind me of why I have chosen this path and I thank you for it.... God Bless, and thank you for what you said....it appears that too often people forget to whom and where Jesus ministered....whom he focused his attention towards....that he was a radical and that he HATED SIN....NOT PEOPLE!! We, as his servants, would do well to remember this point as we so loudly declare verse and cite scripture...I can twist anything to mean anything else...but, at the end of the day, it is to JESUS and only to JESUS that I, or anyone else for that matter, answer to....and I believe he cries at the way we forget what he stood for and how he handled himself...we forget that we are to model his behaviors... NOT STAND ON OUR PIOUS PULPITS AND CONDEMN THOSE WHO NEED OUR LOVE THE MOST!! Maybe we would all do well to remember that and have a nice long conversation with JESUS....and remember that we are supposed to be representing HIM NOT OUR AGENDAS. I graduate with a PhD from Newburgh seminary next Spring....after reading the vast majority of this conversation I not only dont want to go, but am embarrassed to belong to such an elitist group. Again, THANK YOU FOR THIS POST AND MAY YOU AND OUR LOVED ONES FIND, IN AND TROUGH YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS, PEACE. As for those here who appear to have forgotten what Jesus so often said to the pharisees...GO READ THE BOOK YOU ARE SO QUICK TO CITE...and consider not taking scripture and twisting it to your agenda as you accuse so many others of doing!! When was the last time you washed your neighbors feet? Literally or Figuratively? Ill assume it was long ago...much longer than it was for Elder Jo Anne...thank you, Reverend, thank you for reaffirming that there is reason to continue our work!! As for the pharisees in the room, thanks for proving all those who mock my decision to dedicate my life to Jesus to have a very valid point. The church has most obviously forgotten its origins. So go read the book again, but leave YOUR AGENDA out of it!! So, after this post, my first public comment, how many friends does everyone think will mysteriously disappear from my list tonight? Also, tell me honestly, am I just as guilty of judge-casting? Was I too harsh? Maybe I could have skipped the pharisee-calling? The whole thing just bothered me....she knew she was going to be attacked for reminding us to love one another...and nobody, in several days now, has said anything to support her. Not one word of comfort, not one word of agreement...NOBODY else has even said, Ill think about what you said....maybe you have a point....maybe we have lost sight of our mission....
Posted on: Wed, 02 Jul 2014 23:17:28 +0000
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