Comments on: Should I go back? http://www.nakedpastor.com/archives/3680 David Hayward is an artist trapped in a pastor's body, stripping to the essential. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:06:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Tiggy http://www.nakedpastor.com/archives/3680/comment-page-2#comment-121470 Tiggy Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:48:45 +0000 http://www.nakedpastor.com/?p=3680#comment-121470 Melinda there are lots of people at my church with backgrounds similar to yours and they are accepted as part of the community. Some of my friends have been alcoholics and drug-addicts and we tend to see it as an illness. I live in the UK, but I would have thought there must be somewhere where you can go where the church would accept you. Frankly, if they're the sort of people who dont' want to accept you then it's probably not the place for you to go, though I would guess you have a lot to teach them. Why don't you send the email you posted on here out to some churches? I don't know much about churches in the USA, but maybe someone on here who does could respond. Tiggy. Melinda there are lots of people at my church with backgrounds similar to yours and they are accepted as part of the community. Some of my friends have been alcoholics and drug-addicts and we tend to see it as an illness. I live in the UK, but I would have thought there must be somewhere where you can go where the church would accept you. Frankly, if they’re the sort of people who dont’ want to accept you then it’s probably not the place for you to go, though I would guess you have a lot to teach them. Why don’t you send the email you posted on here out to some churches? I don’t know much about churches in the USA, but maybe someone on here who does could respond.

Tiggy.

]]> By: Melinda http://www.nakedpastor.com/archives/3680/comment-page-2#comment-121468 Melinda Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:25:04 +0000 http://www.nakedpastor.com/?p=3680#comment-121468 Nancy: Then we would find each other...in the laundry mat, the grocery store, and all the other places I meet the church. I didn't get saved until late in life. I came from a horrible, dishonorable, backround. I was a drunkard, drug addict, morally loose, and homeless. The Lord has cleaned up all those things, however, there are still consequences to all that behaviour. I still don't have a nice car, or husband, or children, and most of the time I am unemployed. The Lord literally is raising me for the first time in my life. I am probably at about the equivalent of a 19 y.o. right now; however, I am 48. Nonetheless, I love Jesus with all my heart, mind, soul, and strength. But the whole time I have been a Christian I have not been accepted into one church. Noone has even bothered to find out what my story is. They see the externals and just assume I am not a believer, or worse-cursed. It has taken a lot of time to heal from this treatment. I know however that Jesus has used it to keep me humble, and to crucify my flesh. I love to worship the Lord, I love His word, and I wish I could find somewhere to fellowship. I have given up as of now. Maybe you can pray for me? Nancy: Then we would find each other…in the laundry mat, the grocery store, and all the other places I meet the church. I didn’t get saved until late in life. I came from a horrible, dishonorable, backround. I was a drunkard, drug addict, morally loose, and homeless. The Lord has cleaned up all those things, however, there are still consequences to all that behaviour. I still don’t have a nice car, or husband, or children, and most of the time I am unemployed. The Lord literally is raising me for the first time in my life. I am probably at about the equivalent of a 19 y.o. right now; however, I am 48. Nonetheless, I love Jesus with all my heart, mind, soul, and strength. But the whole time I have been a Christian I have not been accepted into one church. Noone has even bothered to find out what my story is. They see the externals and just assume I am not a believer, or worse-cursed. It has taken a lot of time to heal from this treatment. I know however that Jesus has used it to keep me humble, and to crucify my flesh. I love to worship the Lord, I love His word, and I wish I could find somewhere to fellowship. I have given up as of now. Maybe you can pray for me?

]]> By: bambam http://www.nakedpastor.com/archives/3680/comment-page-2#comment-116900 bambam Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:12:44 +0000 http://www.nakedpastor.com/?p=3680#comment-116900 how about they rip out that page in the hymnal for the one named "just as i am"? how about they rip out that page in the hymnal for the one named “just as i am”?

]]> By: Nancy http://www.nakedpastor.com/archives/3680/comment-page-2#comment-116775 Nancy Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:57:43 +0000 http://www.nakedpastor.com/?p=3680#comment-116775 And if everyone felt like you all feel, and everyone left the church...then what? And if everyone felt like you all feel, and everyone left the church…then what?

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