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Our Last Sermon

Jun 20, 2011 14:53

Last week was (most likely) our last at Grace Fellowship ( Read more... )

grace, women in the church, adam and eve

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All The Single Ladies anonymous June 20 2011, 21:38:02 UTC

Love this post. I have always enjoyed our talks regarding our differing philosophies on religion. I find that you have never "tolerated" me, you just accept me for who I am. People can learn from this type of example. You, as a WOMAN, set this example. Don't get me wrong, I adore Austin as well, he and I have just never had the deep conversations you and I have had over the years ( ... )

Re: All The Single Ladies internaldelight June 20 2011, 21:52:50 UTC

Well, divorce is an entirely different topic. They don't like a Christian woman who gets divorced to get re-married. If you, like me, got divorced before you became a Christian, you are fine. There is a bit of a loop-hole where-in abuse is seen as not being faithful to the marriage vows, and you aren't expected to stay in that relationship. They absolutely do not advocate abuse or staying in abusive relationships. But if you were Christian and in an abusive relationship, they would want you to try to end the abuse and work out the relationship, but if you couldn't, they would probably prefer you stay single ( ... )

Re: All The Single Ladies anonymous June 20 2011, 22:06:01 UTC

If the cats would find my glasses I would be much obliged and might feed them more treats to celebrate the occasion ( ... )

Re: All The Single Ladies internaldelight June 20 2011, 23:28:18 UTC

I'm familiar with Mormom beliefs. Grace Fellowship isn't quite that extreme.

on leadership corinthia June 20 2011, 21:40:30 UTC

One of the issues I had with Grace was the obvious hypocrisy of "men are the leaders" and then the men not leading. If you put the expectation that the men be ahead of the women, I fully expect there to be strong accountabilities put in place to ensure the men are actually leading.

It is why I stepped down from leading the prayer ministry. I couldn't handle being told "Yes, you can lead the ministry. No, you can't have a session of prayer where you oversee men praying."

I was fine with their line of thinking as long as they acted on that conviction, but the hypocrisy... yeah. I feel you.

Re: on leadership internaldelight June 20 2011, 21:54:37 UTC

I don't know what else to say to this except....Amen. It seems like the elders need to be accountable to someone, and it doesn't really feel like they are.

It really is nice to know it's not just me.

Re: on leadership internaldelight June 20 2011, 21:58:12 UTC

In fact, I wanted to start a ministry reaching out to women who lost a child. But they wouldn't really let me do it the way I wanted to do it, the way I knew it would be helpful. So I let it drop. I knew I wouldn't be able to handle someone who had not been through it telling me what to do.

jerseydarkangel June 21 2011, 03:52:40 UTC

Good luck finding a new church. I'm glad that your break with Grace is fairly clean.