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Re: Greetings!! Hey Dondi... :) I left out the first hour of the arguement... my tact had run out by that time... lol... The point that I was attempting to make in the meeting is that we ought not try to fit God into our little box of understanding... and that I did not feel that we...

Thanx Earl... :) I think I will hang on to the jaded title for a while... I have grown quite atrtached to it... heh :rolleyes: Peace

Hey Dondi... Thanx!! :) I try to do the same... :) Its all about the LOVE... Peace

Re: Greetings!! Heya Flow... No worries here about the troubles along the way... they were years ago... and they all seem quite comical now... lol... I do however worry about those that are still caught up in places like that... :( As for today and the forks in the road... I try to take...

Re: Greetings!! Dondi... I used the exact same arguement in the board meeting at which I received my "Heretic" title... which I wear proudly... THANK YOU!!... lol It was also blatantly stated at this board meeting that GOD was a MAN ( as in a male )... and anyone that questioned that...

Well... Speaking as both an ex-layperson and an ex-pastor in an protestant church... For me and many of those that I had counseled with... christianity was a negative religion... now I am only speaking of the particular churches we were involved in... not of the entire religion... and...

Re: Greetings!! I guess where the legalism hit me the most was not with the basic tenants... it was with the supposed rules and regulations... or with fighting huge theological battles over things that were minor in the scope of what it means to be a christian... For instance... there was bad...

Re: Greetings!! Hey Dondi... Again let me clarify before I start throwing names around... I am speaking of my life, my journey... and those individuals that I have been in contact with... I do not believe that everyone within the denominations that I have experience in were legalistic and...

Re: Greetings!! Hey all... I spent the last few hours reading through various posts in the Liberal Christianity Forum. WOW!! I came face to face with that which drove me from the church... I also came face to face with the person I once was... when I first got out of bible college and...

Thanx all for the warm welcome... I guess I need an avatar... lol There is a lot of interesting reading here... some great thoughts and opinions... Peace to you all...

Greetings... I have just joined the forums... burt I want to extend a welcome none the less... :) Peace to you!!

Thanx again =)

Re: Greetings!! Hey wil... Thank You!! I very much miss teaching and helping... but I also miss learning... and being moved... thankfully... through this site and through tcpc... I have again been moved... like waking up from a coma... lol... or hibernation... its been a long long...

I am reposting this here... since I had posted it in the wrong place... oops... =) I just wanted to say "Hello"... I have wandered here after many years of being spiritually homeless... I was at one time an ordained minister... I was a youth pastor for 8 years... during that time I got to...

Re: Greetings!! AHHH... Good call!! =) I looked for something like that but I didnt back out far enough to the main board to find it... =) I will post it there... Thanx Peace & Love

Greetings!! I just wanted to say "Hello"... I have wandered here after many years of being spiritually homeless... I was at one time an ordained minister... I was a youth pastor for 8 years... during that time I got to see the inner workings of the "church"... I was not able to reconcile in...