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Hey sis Serving,

no need to feel out of your comfort zone. You


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SERVING HIM:

every day that I come onto this board as a Catholic Christian and try to proclaim the Truth and combat the many many lies that so many people believe about the Church...and every day someone either ridicules me, lashes out at me, yells at me that I'm 'divisive', or that I'm not worthy of conversing with...so yeah, I'm out of my 'comfort zone'...I'd rather be doing many other fun things... my 'comfort' is not found in getting ridiculed, scolded, and degraded here, but my faith, love and commitment to living my faith has brought me here, so I guess that my 'comfort' is not the most important thing to me, but my conviction of proclaiming truth and combatting lies about Christ (i.e. His body, the Church) will continue until He leads me to leave here...which I thought was the other day, but apparently I was wrong, for now anyway....Peace

You know its interesting, but that is something I have noticed particulalry on this board - there is an intolerance with some people bordering on antipathy toward Catholic Christians. :suspect:

I don't understand that.

But I want to encourage you SERVING HIM to share your faith with us here.

I don't think you are trying to convert me - as I am not trying to convert you. We are already converted into Christ. Amen. :t2:

thank you dear new friend, sachi! :il: I will continue to post as long and as much as the Lord directs me to...as of late, I've been pulled away...and have reflected on much. But thank you for your encouragement. You are truly my sister in Christ! :il:


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We need to let go of our assumptions that we have the corner on salvation.

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I think the biggest problem I had was with the seeker oriented aspect of the Purpose driven church...once you are no longer seeking there seems to be a bit of a vacuum.

For more info on some of the other comments about the movement I recommend John MacCarthur's Hard to Believe. ( someone on the boards here recommended it to me because I was having trouble with our churches Purpose driven model.)

Also, Rick Warren makes available for a nominal fee of $5.00 a month sermons that you can download and use at Pastors.com. :rolleyes:

pastors.com

Granted not everything I had trouble with was based on the Purpose Driven model...

Kevin

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