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Mea kakau

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  1. Thank you all for your support on each side of the issue. All is appreciated and welcomed. I've decided to contact the man's senior pastor. If nothing happens with that, I'm going to drop this. And I'll continue to pray for the man and his wife.
  2. That's what feels right to me within. What kind of example is this man setting for the flock he teaches? At the time he borrowed the equipment he wasn't a pastor yet. Rather he was the church's only worship leader. We asked him for the money to replace the equipment numerous times after the equipment 'went missing.' He was always off putting, saying, "I haven't forgotten. I'll get to you soon." He'd even see my husband at the grocery store and repeat those same words. They were always the first words out of his mouth before any other conversation started. I thought of approaching his senior pastor with this. Is that okay to do?
  3. All of us played on a praise and worship team, the man and his wife and my husband and I. One time he visited us and saw our digital synthesizer. He was a wonderful piano player and asked if he could play it. Soon after that he wondered if he could borrow it to start his two ministries. And we never saw it again. I've always suspected it was never stolen in the first place. He just intended to keep it. I've prayed for him to have success in his business and he did. I'd consider this stealing because he never intended to bring it back. I guess I've got a hard time with him being a pastor and teaching the Alpha Course at his church. Of course I'm not supposed to judge. Right. Geesh! It's okay for him to steal and then teach his congregation not to steal. Say what!? This isn't the first time a pastor preached on not doing a particular thing, and then I caught them in the act doing exactly what their sermon said not to do.
  4. Hello ayin jade, Does forgiving mean forgetting? This is where I'm confused. A Christian therapist who was also pastor, I saw years ago, told me forgiveness is not about forgetting a debt. It was in reference to forgiving someone for abusing me. He said just because you forgive doesn't mean you have to forget. He told me because if you forget then you can't protect yourself against abuse in the future.
  5. Not certain if this topic belongs here. A Christian brother owes my husband and I money for equipment he borrowed and subsequently got stolen out of his van. This man has repeatedly told us he would take care of it and pay us for the stolen equipment. This has gone on (on and off contacting us) now since 1996. Now I wonder, in the back of my mind, did he ever intend to pay us back. Every time I contact him he has either forgotten about it or says he will pay us soon. I'm confused about what to do in this situation. I've prayed about it. I prayed for the man. I've called him and talked about it. And it's the same story again and again. "I'll pay you in a month or so." Never happens. The man is a part time pastor at a well-known church in his city. He used our equipment to start a ministry and a business. Both are successful. So money isn't a problem.
  6. The definition of propaganda is: It is chiefly a derogatory term. Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. The dissemination of propaganda as a political strategy: the party's leaders believed that a long period of education and propaganda would be necessary. ORIGIN Italian, from modern Latin congregatio de propaganda fide ‘congregation for propagation of the faith’ American English Thesaurus: the prophetic novel is about a government that controls the masses by spreading propaganda: information, promotion, advertising, publicity, spin; disinformation, counter-information; historical agitprop; informal info, hype, plugging; puff piece; the big lie. British English Thesaurus: regulations restricting political propaganda were relaxed: information, promotion, advertising, advertisement, publicity, advocacy; spin, newspeak, agitprop, disinformation, counter-information, brainwashing, indoctrination, the big lie; informal info, hype, plugging.
  7. I respond to both types of nudges from God. The very first time I heard from the Holy Spirit, I was in church for only the third time in my life. I was in a prayer vigil for a man who had a surgery coming up. The Holy Spirit started with a soft whisper in my ear. Of course being a new Christian, three weeks old, I doubted what I was hearing. So I waited. And soon that little nudge because a loud voice in my ear I couldn't deny I was hearing. I finally raised my hand and said what heard the Lord saying to pray for the man. The pastor of that church doubted that I had heard from the Holy Spirit. And to take whatever I said with a grain of salt, because I had been a Christian for only three weeks. Two weeks later, the wife stood up in church and testified that I indeed had heard from the Holy Spirit. A potentially fatal infection had been thwarted through the word I had spoken.
  8. I used to have extreme PTSD and that included anxiety. As I healed from childhood abuse, those symptoms dissipated. Though I still have anxiety here and there. My prayer for my PTSD, from the time I first became a Christian, has always been; Lord heal me in Your way and Your time. I've had faith in Jesus that He would do exactly that. I've accepted that I may have to live with some after effects of what occurred years ago. I still can't get some images out of my mind no matter what I pray. At least they're not as intense as before. And this last summer I discovered some of my anxiety was due to food allergies. Never knew food allergies could cause anxiety.
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