tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14373188.post112768598100761738..comments2023-05-22T06:30:18.777-06:00Comments on Emerging Grace: Why Question?Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16458658959357581120noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14373188.post-1127936929030648822005-09-28T13:48:00.000-06:002005-09-28T13:48:00.000-06:00Lorna, your last comment made a lot of sense to me...Lorna, your last comment made a lot of sense to me. Thank you.<BR/><BR/>Franklin, makes sense to me. I'm afraid we're at kind of an awkward stage, ruined for going back but not released into what's next. <BR/><BR/>I understand the tension you describe in that, and remind myself to learn what I need to learn in the midst of this awkward stage.Lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16458658959357581120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14373188.post-1127847273115096672005-09-27T12:54:00.001-06:002005-09-27T12:54:00.001-06:00PS one friend once told me - Lorna your gift is as...PS one friend once told me - Lorna your gift is asking questions. Since then I've been free to embrace itAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14373188.post-1127847259882275172005-09-27T12:54:00.000-06:002005-09-27T12:54:00.000-06:00Pam, I hope people read these comments because you...Pam, I hope people read these comments because you always have such great things to add. I've not really thrown out the things I've learned along the way, but rather than look at them as spiritual stripes on my sleeve, I look at them more as just a part of who I am. I will always be spirit-filled and prophetic, just like I'll always worship, pray, etc.<BR/><BR/>Hi Lorna, I haven't read it yet. So many books, so little time. :(Lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16458658959357581120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14373188.post-1127828552652421412005-09-27T07:42:00.000-06:002005-09-27T07:42:00.000-06:00Oh thanks for this.interesting I'm about to blog o...Oh thanks for this.<BR/><BR/>interesting I'm about to blog over the same thoughts. I won't read yours uptil I do mine though, as I think the whole exercise will be very useful for me<BR/><BR/>I just read generous orthodoxy and it's been very challenging. Have you read it? Your own experiences - and variety of worshipping communities - is part of that story and so good to read.<BR/><BR/>be blessed :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14373188.post-1127774232662179732005-09-26T16:37:00.000-06:002005-09-26T16:37:00.000-06:00I feel the same way. I really enjoyed this post, a...I feel the same way. I really enjoyed this post, and loved your last line about not being opposed to the things you question.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14373188.post-1127747973849778202005-09-26T09:19:00.000-06:002005-09-26T09:19:00.000-06:00hey Grace,i can relate to your confession of eliti...hey Grace,<BR/><BR/>i can relate to your confession of elitism.<BR/><BR/>I've been a Spirit-filled, tongue speaking, prophesying, demon stomping woman of God for some time now. A few years back my family moved to a new city and eventually found a church home in a lovely conservative, evangelical church that did not believe the gifts were for today. I was a closet charismatic in that church, flying low under the radar while praying in the Spirit with my hand over my mouth so as not to upset anyone<BR/>Eventually spiritual pride took root in my heart and I began to feel quite special, superior - "I speak in tongues and you don't" - but because God is so kind to me He gently let me know that this was messed up, that His bride is His bride, His blood bought bride whether she speaks in tongues or not, whether she sings worship loudly or softly, whether she embraces the prophetic or runs from it, He desparately loves His bride and proved that through the marriage proposal on the cross. It offends Him if I hold contempt for her in any way.<BR/><BR/>Like you, I have now come to appreciate the many parts of the body of the Christ, the variety of manifestations of faith and love. We need each other. <BR/><BR/>I visited a neighborhood church a few weeks ago. Before I went in I breathed a prayer, Oh God, help me not be critical. It's a bent in me, to find fault. As I sat through the service of this "emergent type church" I wondered at the beauty of it all. The worship style was different, of course, but I wasn't there to be entertained, I was there to worship Jesus with the bride. And that perspective, the church is His Bride, is helping preserve my heart from scorning her. Whether she speaks in tongues or not.Pam Hogeweidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12667139057131247825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14373188.post-1127743507866488062005-09-26T08:05:00.000-06:002005-09-26T08:05:00.000-06:00Rhymes, I guess that is what I was getting at. I ...Rhymes, <BR/>I guess that is what I was getting at. I do love God's people in so many different places, and I don't want my questioning to diminish them. <BR/><BR/>I'll probably continue to question, but to what end, I don't know.Lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16458658959357581120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14373188.post-1127705215724765772005-09-25T21:26:00.000-06:002005-09-25T21:26:00.000-06:00"The majority of people in any church you attend a...<I>"The majority of people in any church you attend are people who sincerely love God and are living their lives in the way that they understand best expresses that."</I><BR/><BR/>And, ultimately, the question is, do we love them as well? I've found that it is so very, very difficult to see what God is doing in the heart, mind or life of another until I am able to truly accept and care for them as they are, where they're at. I have found myself in situations at work where God has made me to see beyond my own self-absorbed little agenda and have been stunned to encounter Christ in the most unlikely of places, people and situations.<BR/><BR/>We all do the best we can with what we have. Sometimes I'm just not yet able to absorb the questions, never mind the answers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com